Vol. 17 No. 21 · 2 November 1995

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Vol. 17 No. 21 · 2 November 1995

Benedict Anderson

Generations of Resistance by Steve Cox and Peter Carey. Cassell, 120 pp., £55, November 1995, 9780304332502

Letters

D.M. Bain, Brian Southam, Keith Walker, Kathy O’Shaughnessy, Adrian Bowyer, Walter Have, Harold Dorn, Alan Gabbey, Ron Haggart

Edward Luttwak

Turbo-Charged Capitalism and Its Consequences

P.N. Furbank

Monsieur d’Eon is a Woman: A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual Masquerade by Gary Kates. Basic Books, 368 pp., $25, May 1995, 0 465 04761 0

Roy Porter

The History of Pain by Roselyne Rey, translated by Elliott Wallace and J.A. Cadden , and S.W. Cadden. Harvard, 394 pp., £25.50, October 1995, 0 674 39967 6

Frank Kermode

Roy Fuller: Writer and Society by Neil Powell. Carcanet, 330 pp., £25, September 1995, 1 85754 133 2

Rosemary Hill

Christopher Wood: An English Painter by Richard Ingleby. Allison and Busby, 295 pp., £25, May 1995, 0 85031 849 1
Barbara Hepworth: A Life of Forms by Sally Festing. Viking, 343 pp., £20, May 1995, 0 670 84203 6

Harry Mathews

‘Maldoror’ and the Complete Works of the Comte de Lautréamont translated by Alexis Lykiard. Exact Change, 352 pp., £11.99, January 1995, 9781878972125

R.W. Johnson

The Liberal Slideaway by Jill Wentzel. South African Institute of Race Relations, 430 pp., R 59.99, October 1995, 0 86982 445 7

Laurence Whitehead

The Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey around South America by Ernesto Che Guevara, translated by Ann Wright. Verso, 155 pp., £19.95, June 1995, 1 85984 942 3
Che Guevara by Jean Cormier, with Hilda Guevara and Alberto Grando. Editions du Rocher, 448 pp., frs 139, August 1995, 2 268 01967 5
Journal de Bolivie by Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, translated by Fanchita Gonzalez- Batlle and France Binard. La Découverte, 256 pp., frs 120, August 1995, 2 7071 2482 6
L’Année ou nous n’étions nulle part: Extraits du journal de Che Guevara en Afrique edited by Paco Ignacio Taibo, Froilán Escóbar and Félix Guerra, translated by Mara Hernandez and René Solis. Métaillié, 281 pp., frs 120, September 1995, 2 86424 205 2

August Kleinzahler

Three Poems

John Redmond

The Ghost Orchid by Michael Longley. Cape, 66 pp., £7, May 1995, 0 224 04112 6

Jenny Turner

Morvern Callar by Alan Warner. Cape, 224 pp., £9.99, February 1995, 0 224 04011 1

Clarence Brown

Out of Egypt by André Aciman. Farrar, Straus, 302 pp., $23, January 1995, 0 374 22833 7

David Trotter

The Spectacular Body: Science, Method and Meaning in the Work of Degas by Anthea Callen. Yale, 244 pp., £35, February 1995, 0 300 05443 2

Patricia Beer

Poem: ‘From Wilfred Owen 1918’

Iain McGilchrist

The Paradoxes of Delusion: Wittgenstein, Schreber, and the Schizophrenic Mind by Louis Sass. Cornell, 177 pp., £23.50, June 1995, 0 8014 9899 6
Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature and Thought by Louis Sass. Basic Books, 593 pp., £18.99, November 1993, 0 465 04312 7

Geoffrey Hawthorn

Diary: Watch the birdy!

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