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Vol. 17 No. 19 · 5 October 1995
Andrew O’Hagan
Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1940-56 edited by Ann Charters. Viking, 629 pp., £25, August 1995, 0 670 84952 9
Letters
Claudia Johnson, J. Woolley, Tom Nairn, Peter McDonald, Jim Fenton, Steven Rose, Alan Clarke, Geoffrey Gait Harpham, Keith Flett, Alan Gabbey
Frank Kermode
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald. Flamingo, 226 pp., £14.99, September 1995, 0 00 223912 4
Jonathan Coe
The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco. Secker, 513 pp., £16.99, October 1995, 0 436 20270 0
Alan Ross
Poem: ‘Monkeys at Rewa’
Lorna Sage
The Ghost Road by Pat Barker. Viking, 196 pp., £15, September 1995, 0 670 85489 1
David Cannadine
Royal Bounty: The Making of a Welfare Monarchy by Frank Prochaska. Yale, 352 pp., £19.95, October 1995, 0 300 06453 5
Michael Mason
The Village that Died for England by Patrick Wright. Cape, 420 pp., £17.99, March 1995, 0 224 03886 9
E.S. Turner
The Railway Man by Eric Lomax. Cape, 278 pp., £15.99, August 1995, 0 224 04187 8
John Barber
Lenin: His Life and Legacy by Dmitri Volkogonov, translated and edited by Harold Shukman. HarperCollins, 529 pp., £25, October 1994, 0 00 255270 1 Lenin: A Political Life. Vol. III: The Iron Ring by Robert Service. Macmillan, 393 pp., £45, January 1995, 0 333 29392 4
Leslie Wilson
The Private Life of Chairman Mao by Li Zhisui, translated by Tai Hung-Chao. Chatto, 682 pp., £20, November 1994, 0 7011 4018 6
William Empson
Moonlight Robbery: China 1938
Anthony Grafton
Impolite Learning: Conduct and Community in the Republic of Letters, 1680-1750 by Anne Goldgar. Yale, 295 pp., £25, June 1995, 0 300 05359 2
David Trotter
Modernist Quartet by Frank Lentricchia. Cambridge, 305 pp., £35, November 1994, 0 521 47004 8
Patrick Parrinder
The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk, translated by Güneli Gün. Faber, 400 pp., £14.99, July 1995, 0 571 16892 2
Zachary Leader
The Paperboy by Pete Dexter. Viking, 307 pp., £15, May 1995, 0 670 86066 2 Third and Indiana by Steve Lopez. Viking, 305 pp., £10.99, April 1995, 0 670 86132 4
Iain Sinclair
Vale Royal by Aidan Dun. Goldmark, 130 pp., £22.50, July 1995
Mel Kernahan
Diary: Nuclear Tests in Tahiti
Arthur Goldhammer
The Private Science of Louis Pasteur by Gerald Geison. Princeton, 378 pp., £24.95, June 1995, 0 691 03442 7 Louis Pasteur by Patrice Debré. Flammarion, 559 pp., frs 145, January 1995, 2 08 066646 0 Pasteur by Pierre Darmon. Fayard, 430 pp., frs 150, February 1995, 9782213594040
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