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Vol. 17 No. 17 · 7 September 1995
Michael Wood
The Moor’s Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie. Cape, 437 pp., £15.99, September 1995, 0 224 03814 1
Letters
Michael Longley, Peter Sampson, S.S. Prawer, Brian Southam, Linda-Jo Bartholomew, Marianne Macdonald, Harold Dorn, Keith Flett, Caroline Norwood, Roger Pebody, Ethna Viney, J. Mark Smith, Barry Simner, Endre Marton, L.B. McKenzie
Ian Hacking
What ‘Natives’ Think: About Captain Cook, For Example by Marshall Sahlins. Chicago, 316 pp., £19.95, July 1995, 0 226 73368 8
John Ashbery
Five Poems
Marilyn Butler
The Life of Walter Scott: A Critical Biography by John Sutherland. Blackwell, 386 pp., £19.99, January 1995, 1 55786 231 1
Ruth Bernard Yeazell
Mrs Oliphant: ‘A Fiction to Herself’ by Elisabeth Jay. Oxford, 355 pp., £25, February 1995, 0 19 812875 4
Patricia Beer
Poem: ‘Art History’
Paul Foot
Jeffrey Archer: Stranger than Fiction by Michael Crick. Hamish Hamilton, 456 pp., £17.50, May 1995, 0 241 13360 2
Owen Flanagan
Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness by Roger Penrose. Vintage, 457 pp., £17.99, September 1995, 0 09 958211 2
Anthony Appiah
Colonial Psychiatry and the ‘African Mind’ by Jock McCulloch. Cambridge, 185 pp., £35, January 1995, 0 521 45330 5
Basil Davidson
The Church in Africa, 1450-1950 by Adrian Hastings. Oxford, 706 pp., £65, January 1995, 0 19 826921 8 A History of Christianity in Africa from Antiquity to the Present by Elizabeth Isichei. SPCK, 420 pp., £25, February 1995, 0 281 04764 2 Religion in Africa: Experience and Expression edited by Thomas Blakely, Walter van Beek and Dennis Thomson. Currey, 512 pp., £45, November 1994, 0 85255 206 8
Mark Urban
Brassey’s Defence Yearbook 1995 edited by Lawrence Freedman and Michael Clarke. Brassey, 396 pp., £35.95, April 1995, 1 85753 131 0 Broken Lives: A Personal View of the Bosnian Conflict by Bob Stewart. HarperCollins, 336 pp., £6.99, July 1994, 0 00 638268 1 Looking for Trouble: An Autobiography by Peter de la Billière. HarperCollins, 449 pp., £19.99, September 1994, 0 00 255245 0
R.W. Davies
Stalin’s Letters to Molotov, 1925-1936 edited by Lars Lih, Oleg Naumov and Oleg Khlevniuk. Yale, 276 pp., £16.95, May 1995, 0 300 06211 7 Pisma I.V. Stalina V.M. Molotovu, 1925-1936: Sbornik Dokumentov compiled by L. Kosheleva, V. Lelchuk, V. Naumov, O. Naumov and L. Rogovaya. Rossiya Molodaya, 303 pp., May 1995, 5 86646 071 8 Iosif Stalin v Obyatiyakh Semi: Iz Lichnogo Arkhiva compiled by Yu. G. Murin. Rodina, 222 pp., July 1993, 5 7330 0043 0
Gabriele Annan
1920 Diary by Isaac Babel, edited by Carol Avins, translated by H.T. Willetts. Yale, 126 pp., £14.95, June 1995, 0 300 05966 3 Collected Stories by Isaac Babel, translated by David McDuff. Penguin, 364 pp., £6.99, June 1995, 0 14 018462 7
John Bayley
The Poems of John Dryden: Vol. I, 1649-1681; Vol. II, 1682-1685 edited by Paul Hammond. Longman, 551 pp., £75, February 1995, 0 582 49213 0
Laura (Riding) Jackson
The Promise of Words
Laura (Riding) Jackson
Poem: ‘In Gratuitous Witness’
Elaine Showalter
Diary: Even Lolita must have read Nancy Drew
Mark Ford
Robert Graves: Life on the Edge by Miranda Seymour. Doubleday, 524 pp., £20, July 1995, 0 385 40423 9 Robert Graves and the White Goddess by Richard Perceval Graves. Weidenfeld, 618 pp., £25, July 1995, 0 297 81534 2 Robert Graves: His Life and Work by Martin Seymour-Smith. Bloomsbury, 600 pp., £25, June 1995, 0 7475 2205 7 Robert Graves: Collected Writings on Poetry edited by Paul O’Prey. Carcanet, 560 pp., £35, June 1995, 1 85754 172 3 Robert Graves: The Centenary Selected Poems edited by Patrick Quinn. Carcanet, 160 pp., £15.95, April 1995, 9781857541267
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