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Vol. 18 No. 20 · 17 October 1996
Fredric Jameson
Ein weites Feld by Günter Grass. Steidl, 784 pp., DM 49.80, August 1995, 3 88243 366 3
Letters
Edward Said, John Leslie, Jessica Douglas-Home, Boris Ford, David Craig, Melanie Phillips, Christopher Hawtree, Gerald Long, Paul Kriwaczek, Frederick Barker, Axel Harvey, George Nakely, Karlien van den Beukel, Ronald Harwood and 23 others
Neil Rollinson
Two Poems
Michael Wood
The Last Don by Mario Puzo. Heinemann, 482 pp., £15.99, October 1996, 0 434 60498 4
Paul Foot
Sleaze: Politicians, Private Interests and Public Reaction edited by F.F. Ridley and Alan Doig. Oxford, 222 pp., £10.99, April 1996, 0 19 922273 8 Changing Trains: The Autobiography of Steven Norris Hutchinson, 273 pp., £16.99, October 1996, 0 09 180212 1 The Quango Debate edited by F.F. Ridley and David Wilson. Oxford, 188 pp., £10.99, September 1995, 9780199222384
Peter Clarke
Alec Douglas-Home by D.R. Thorpe. Sinclair-Stevenson, 540 pp., £25, October 1996, 1 85619 277 6
David Bromwich
Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life by Martha Nussbaum. Beacon, 143 pp., $20, February 1996, 0 8070 4108 4
Gabriele Annan
Every Man for Himself by Beryl Bainbridge. Duckworth, 224 pp., £14.99, September 1996, 0 7156 2733 3
Dinah Birch
‘People for Lunch’ and ‘Spoilt’ by Georgina Hammick. Vintage, 408 pp., £6.99, August 1996, 0 09 946381 4 The Arizona Game by Georgina Hammick. Chatto, 285 pp., £14.99, August 1996, 0 7011 6214 7
Tom Paulin
Poem: ‘The Wind Dog’
R.W. Johnson
On the Way to First Base
Jenny Diski
An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks. Picador, 336 pp., £6.99, January 1995, 0 330 34347 5 The Island of the Colour-Blind by Oliver Sacks. Picador, 336 pp., £16.99, October 1996, 0 330 35081 1
Elisa Segrave
‘Did that man touch our car?’
Peter Campbell
Life on the Screen by Sherry Turkle. Weidenfeld, 250 pp., £18.99, April 1996, 0 297 81514 8
Perry Anderson
Diary: In Seoul
Frank Kermode
The Scent of Dried Roses by Tim Lott. Viking, 275 pp., £16, September 1996, 0 670 86460 9
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