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Vol. 18 No. 22 · 14 November 1996
Edward Luttwak
Central Bankism
Letters
David Craig, Jörg Rademacher, Alison Leonard, Christopher Price, David Hayes, James Owen, Elisa Segrave, Edward Said, Yitzhak Laor, J.P. Spencer, Philip Corrigan, Colin McGinn, Christopher Hawtree, Stanley Jones
Christopher Prendergast
Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett by James Knowlson. Bloomsbury, 872 pp., £25, September 1996, 0 7475 2719 9 Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist by Anthony Cronin. HarperCollins, 645 pp., £25, October 1996, 9780246137692 The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett. Vol I: Waiting for Godot edited by Dougald McMillan and James Knowlson. Faber, 472 pp., £75, March 1994, 0 571 14543 4 The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett. Vol II: Endgame edited by S.E. Gontarski. Faber, 276 pp., £50, November 1992, 0 571 14544 2 The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett. Vol III: Krapp’s Last Tape edited by James Knowlson. Faber, 286 pp., £50, May 1992, 0 571 14563 9 Eleutheria by Samuel Beckett, translated by Barbara Wright. Faber, 170 pp., £6.99, September 1996, 9780571178261
Michael Wood
The Life and Work of Harold Pinter by Michael Billington. Faber, 414 pp., £20, November 1996, 0 571 17103 6
R.W. Johnson
Hugh Gaitskell by Brian Brivati. Cohen, 492 pp., £25, September 1996, 1 86066 073 8
Colin Kidd
The Correspondence of Adam Ferguson edited by Vincenzo Merolle. Pickering & Chatto, 257 pp., £135, October 1995, 1 85196 140 2
Patrice Higonnet
Benjamin Franklin and his Enemies by Robert Middlekauf. California, 276 pp., £19.95, March 1996, 0 520 20268 6
John Dupré
The Lives to Come: The Genetic Revolution and Human Possibilities by Philip Kitcher. Allen Lane, 381 pp., £20, April 1996, 0 7139 9129 1
Christopher Hitchens
Jacqueline Bouvier: An Intimate Memoir by John Davis. Wiley, 256 pp., £14.99, October 1996, 0 471 12945 3
Lorna Scott Fox
Lola Montez: A Life by Bruce Seymour. Yale, 468 pp., £20, May 1996, 0 300 06347 4
Dinah Birch
Letters of Emma and Florence Hardy edited by Michael Millgate. Oxford, 364 pp., £45, April 1996, 0 19 818609 6
Ruth Padel
Poem: ‘Scotch’
Frank Kermode
Reality and Dreams by Muriel Spark. Constable, 160 pp., £14.95, September 1996, 0 09 469670 5
John Sutherland
From Potter’s Field by Patricia Cornwell. Warner, 405 pp., £5.99, June 1996, 0 7515 1630 9 Cause of Death by Patricia Cornwell. Little, Brown, 342 pp., £9.99, October 1996, 0 316 87885 5
Dick Leonard
Diary: Belgian Affairs
Paul Smith
Making Men: Rugby and Masculine Identity edited by John Nauright and Timothy Chandler. Cass, 260 pp., £35, April 1996, 0 7146 4637 7
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