Vol. 18 No. 13 · 4 July 1996

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Cover Artist

Peter Campbell

Helen Vendler

Robert Frost: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers. Constable, 424 pp., £20, May 1996, 0 09 476130 2
Collected Poems, Prose and Plays by Robert Frost, edited by Richard Poirier and Mark Richardson. Library of America, 1036 pp., $35, October 1995, 9781883011062

Letters

James Wood, Erik Svarny, Bernard Bergonzi, Nigel Jackson, Daniel Adamski, Stephen Howe, John Griffith, Avi Shlaim, Daniel Johnson

Penelope Fitzgerald

Edward Thomas: Selected Letters edited by R. George Thomas. Oxford, 192 pp., £30, March 1996, 0 19 818562 6

Raphael Samuel

Raymond Williams by Fred Inglis. Routledge, 333 pp., £19.99, October 1995, 0 415 08960 3

Paul Foot

The Kincora Scandal: Political Cover-Up and Intrigue in Northern Ireland by Chris Moore. Marine, 240 pp., £6.99, June 1996, 1 86023 029 6

John Levett

Poem: ‘Magnesium’

Michael Symmons Roberts

Poem: ‘Cat’s-Eye’

Malcolm Gladwell

In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio by Philippe Bourgois. Cambridge, 391 pp., £24.95, March 1996, 0 521 43518 8

Wendy Steiner

Here/Not Here

Peter Campbell

Degas beyond Impressionism August 1996
Degas beyond Impressionism by Richard Kendall. National Gallery, 324 pp., £35, May 1996, 1 85709 129 9
Degas as Collector  National Gallery, August 1996

Miroslav Holub

The Same and Not the Same by Roald Hoffmann. Columbia, 294 pp., $34.95, September 1995, 0 231 10138 4

Francis Spufford

Why Things Bite Back: New Technology and the Revenge Effect by Edward Tenner. Fourth Estate, 360 pp., £18.99, June 1996, 1 85702 560 1

Gaby Wood

Djuna Barnes by Philip Herring. Viking, 416 pp., £20, May 1996, 0 670 84969 3

John Lloyd

Diary: Report from Moscow

Peter Wollen

‘Salome’ and ‘Under the Hill’ by Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley. Creation, 123 pp., £7.95, April 1996, 1 871592 12 7
Aubrey Beardsley: Dandy of the Grotesque by Chris Snodgrass. Oxford, 338 pp., £35, August 1995, 0 19 509062 4

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