Vol. 18 No. 14 · 18 July 1996

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Vol. 18 No. 14 · 18 July 1996

Perry Link

Hungry Ghosts: China’s Secret Famine by Jasper Becker

Letters

Geoffrey Dutton, Sheldon Litt, Daniel Kinney, S.J.D. Green and R.C. Whiting, Charles Powell, Edward Mendelson, Nicolas Walter, Anthony Lester, Richard F. Riley, Dan Latimer, Janine di Giovanni, Hari Kunzru

Geoffrey Hawthorn

India’s Economic Reforms 1991-2001 by Vijay Joshi and I.M.D. Little

Linda Colley

Empire: The British Imperial Experience, from 1765 to the Present by Denis Judd
Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire edited by P.J. Marshall
Lords of All the World: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain and France, c.1500-c.1800 by Anthony Pagden

Jenny Diski

I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination by Francis Spufford

E.S. Turner

Passchendaele: The Untold Story by Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson

Fintan O’Toole

The Fourth Estate by Jeffrey Archer
Tickle the Public: One Hundred Years of the Popular Press by Matthew Engel
Newspaper Power: The New National Press in Britain by Jeremy Tunstall

Dale Peck

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Donald Hall

Poem: ‘The Sentence’

Hugh Kenner

The Oxford English Grammar by Sidney Greenbaum

John Bayley

The World, the World by Norman Lewis
Omnibus: ‘A Dragon Apparent’, ‘Golden Earth’, ‘A Goddess in the Stones’ by Norman Lewis

Janette Turner Hospital

Colour is the Suffering of Light: A Memoir by Melissa Green

Gerald Howard

Secret Life by Michael Ryan

Sarah Rigby

The Yeats Sisters: A Biography of Susan and Elizabeth Yeats by Joan Hardwick

Shannon Borg

Poem: ‘While He Lies on a Table under a Round White Light’

J. Hoberman

Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot by Michael Rogin

John Kerrigan

The ‘O’o’a’a’ Bird by Justin Quinn
Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time by Eavan Boland
Collected Poems by Eavan Boland
Captain Lavender by Medbh McGuckian

Hirit Belai

Diary: Legislating Refugees out of Existence

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