Vol. 17 No. 12 · 22 June 1995

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Cover Artist

Peter Campbell

Raphael Samuel

Coming Back Brockens: A Year in a Mining Village by Mark Hudson. Cape, 320 pp., £16.99, October 1994, 0 224 04170 3

Letters

Madeleine Bunting, Jenny Chamier Grove, W.B. Carnochan, Allen Andersson, Richard Cummings, Kiffin Rockwell

R.W. Johnson

Rubbing along in the neo-liberal way

Michael Hofmann

Three Poems

Alex de Waal

War and Law since 1945 by Geoffrey Best. Oxford, 434 pp., £25, October 1994, 0 19 821991 1
Mercy under Fire: War and the Global Humanitarian Community by Larry Minear and Thomas Weiss. Westview, 247 pp., £44.50, July 1995, 0 8133 2567 6

Ron Ridenhour

Derailed in Uncle Ho’s Victory Garden: Return to Vietnam and Cambodia by Tim Page. Touchstone, 248 pp., £14.99, April 1995, 0 671 71926 2
In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien. Flamingo, 306 pp., £5.99, April 1995, 0 00 654395 2
In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam by Robert McNamara. Random House, 432 pp., $27.50, April 1995, 0 8129 2523 8

Richard Wollheim

Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist and Society by Meyer Schapiro. Braziller, 253 pp., £19.95, October 1994, 0 8076 1356 8

Tim Winton

Patrick White: Letters edited by David Marr. Cape, 678 pp., £35, January 1995, 0 224 03516 9

Gary Saul Morson

Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871 by Joseph Frank. Robson, 512 pp., £27.95, March 1995, 0 86051 953 8

Gustave Flaubert, translated by Geoffrey Wall

Two Letters from Gustave Flaubert to Louise Colet

Patrice Higonnet

Diary: On Jacques Chirac

Adrian Lyttelton

Mazzini by Denis Mack Smith. Yale, 302 pp., £19.95, April 1994, 0 300 05884 5
Verdi: A Biography by Mary Jane Phillips-Matz. Oxford, 941 pp., £30, October 1993, 0 19 313204 4
The Real Traviata by Gaia Servadio. Hodder, 290 pp., £20, October 1994, 9780340579480

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