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Vol. 18 No. 7 · 4 April 1996
Lorna Sage
Remake by Christine Brooke-Rose. Carcanet, 172 pp., £9.95, February 1996, 1 85754 222 3
Letters
Julia Tennyson, James Wood, David Edgerton, K.W.C. Sinclair-Loutit, Brendan MacCarthy, Michael Brearlely, Margit Malmstrom
Margaret Anne Doody
Delphine by Germaine de Staël, translated by Avriel Goldberger. Northern Illinois, 468 pp., $50, September 1995, 0 87580 200 1
John Burnside
Six Poems
Frank Kermode
Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude by Ray Monk. Cape, 720 pp., £25, April 1996, 0 224 03026 4
John Lloyd
Aphrodite bends over Stalin
Hugo Williams
Five Poems
Fredric Jameson
The Invisible in Architecture edited by Ole Bouman and Roemer van Toorn. Academy, 516 pp., $115, February 1994, 1 85490 285 7 The Classical Vernacular: Architectural Principles in an Age of Nihilism by Roger Scruton. Carcanet, 158 pp., £19.95, October 1994, 1 85754 054 9
Peter Campbell
Oceanic Art by Nicholas Thomas. Thames and Hudson, 216 pp., £6.95, May 1995, 0 500 20281 8
Rob Nixon
A Month and a Day: A Detention Diary by Ken Saro-Wiwa. Penguin, 256 pp., £6.99, December 1995, 9780140258684
John Bossy
The New Oxford History of England. Vol. II: The Later Tudors by Penry Williams. Oxford, 628 pp., £25, September 1995, 0 19 822820 1
James Fletcher
The Messiaen Companion edited by Peter Hill. Faber, 581 pp., £40, March 1995, 0 571 17033 1 Olivier Messiaen: Music and Colour. Conversations with Claude Samuel translated by Thomas Glasow. Amadeus, 296 pp., $29.95, May 1994, 0 931340 67 5
Hilary Mantel
Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson. Black Swan, 382 pp., £6.99, January 1996, 0 552 99618 1
Michael Wood
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oë, translated by Paul St John Mackintosh and Maki Sugiyama. Boyars, 189 pp., £14.95, May 1995, 0 7145 2997 4 A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oë, translated by John Nathan. Picador, 165 pp., £5.99, January 1996, 0 330 34435 8 Hiroshima Notes by Kenzaburo Oë, translated by David Swain and Toshi Yonezawa. Boyars, 192 pp., £14.95, August 1995, 0 7145 3007 7
Mary Beard
Diary: On Moving
Raymond Tallis
Crossing Frontiers: Gerontology Emerges as a Science by Andrew Achenbaum. Cambridge, 278 pp., £35, November 1995, 0 521 48194 5
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