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Vol. 17 No. 24 · 14 December 1995
Nicholas Spice
Mozart by Maynard Solomon. Hutchinson, 640 pp., £25, May 1995, 9780091747046
Letters
Jill Kitson, Clive James, Shaun Spiers, John Wadham, J.A.G. Griffith, Adam Kadmon, Bonnie Herron, J. Woolley, Keith Flett, Robert Sutton, D.M. Bain, Tony Woolfson, Jim Fenton, Chris Oakley, Fiona Pitt-Kethley
Andrew O’Hagan
Oswald’s Tale: An American Mystery by Norman Mailer. Little, Brown, 791 pp., £25, September 1995, 0 316 87620 8
Richard Poirier
Henry James and the Art of Non-Fiction by Tony Tanner. Georgia, 92 pp., £20.50, May 1995, 9780820316895
James Buchan
The Life of Adam Smith by Ian Simpson Ross. Oxford, 495 pp., £25, October 1995, 0 19 828821 2
Margaret Anne Doody
Slip-Shod Sibyls: Recognition, Rejection and the Woman Poet by Germaine Greer. Viking, 517 pp., £20, September 1995, 0 670 84914 6
Jenny Diski
Fight & Kick & Bite: The Life and Work of Dennis Potter by W. Stephen Gilbert. Hodder, 382 pp., £18.99, November 1995, 0 340 64047 2 Dennis Potter: A Life on Screen by John Cook. Manchester, 368 pp., £45, October 1995, 0 7190 4601 7
John Sutherland
Shadows of the Future: H.G. Wells, Science Fiction and Prophecy by Patrick Parrinder. Liverpool, 170 pp., £25, July 1995, 0 85323 439 6 The History of Mr Wells by Michael Foot. Doubleday, 318 pp., £20, October 1995, 0 385 40366 6 A Modern Utopia by H.G. Wells, edited by Krishan Kumar. Everyman, 271 pp., £5.99, November 1994, 0 460 87498 5
Alistair Elliot
Two Poems
Scott Bradfield
Jim Thompson Omnibus: The Getaway, The Killer inside Me, The Grifters, Pop. 1280 Picador, 570 pp., £7.99, November 1995, 3 303 34288 1 Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson by Robert Polito. Knopf, 543 pp., $30, October 1995, 0 394 58407 4
Joan Acocella
Flamenco Deep Song by Timothy Mitchell. Yale, 232 pp., £18.95, January 1995, 0 300 06001 7 ¡Tango! The Dance, the Song, the Story by Simon Collier, Artemis Cooper, María Susana Azzi and Richard Martin. Thames and Hudson, 208 pp., £24.95, October 1995, 0 500 01671 2 Rumba: Dance and Social Change in Contemporary Cuba by Yvonne Daniel. Open University, 196 pp., £27.50, August 1995, 0 253 31605 7
Frank Kermode
My Mad Captains
Christopher Hitchens
Diary: Men (and Women) of the Year
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