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Vol. 18 No. 24 · 12 December 1996
Martha Gellhorn
Memory
Letters
Tom Paulin, Edward Luttwak, Orlando Figes, Robert Crawford, Isaac Levi, David Smiley, Ian Flintoff, Glenn Wood, Keith Flett
Fredric Jameson
Histoire de ‘Tel Quel’, 1960-82 by Philippe Forest. Seuil, 656 pp., frs 180, October 1995, 2 02 017346 8 The Time of Theory: A History of ‘Tel Quel’ (1960-83) by Patrick ffrench. Oxford, 318 pp., £37.50, December 1995, 0 19 815897 1 The Making of an Avant Garde: ‘Tel Quel’ by Niilo Kauppi. Mouton de Gruyter, 516 pp., August 1994, 3 11 013952 9
Nicholas Penny
Grands Décors français 1650-1800 by Bruno Pons. Faton, 439 pp., £130, June 1995, 2 87844 023 4 The Rococo Interior by Katie Scott. Yale, 342 pp., £39.95, November 1995, 0 300 04582 4 Chardin by Marianne Roland Michel, translated by Eithne McCarthy. Thames and Hudson, 293 pp., £60, March 1996, 0 500 09259 1
Linda Melvern
The UN and Rwanda
R.W. Johnson
The Seed Is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper, 1849-1985 by Charles van Onselen. James Currey, 668 pp., £14.95, February 1996, 9780852557402
Martin Bernal
Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History by Mary Lefkowitz. Basic Books, 222 pp., $24, February 1996, 0 465 09837 1 Black Athena Revisited edited by Mary Lefkowitz and Guy MacLean Rogers. North Carolina, 544 pp., £14.75, September 1996, 0 8078 2246 9
Raymond Geuss
Poem: ‘Noli admirari’
Tom Shippey
Stonehenge: Neolithic Man and the Cosmas by John North. HarperCollins, 609 pp., £25, July 1996, 0 00 255773 8
E.S. Turner
British Military Spectacle: From the Napoleonic Wars through the Crimea by Scott Hughes Myerly. Harvard, 336 pp., £23.50, December 1996, 0 674 08249 4
Clarence Brown
Tangled Loyalties: The Life and Times of Ilya Ehrenburg by Joshua Rubenstein. Tauris, 482 pp., £19.50, July 1996, 1 85043 998 2
A.N. Wilson
Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton by Joseph Pearce. Hodder, 522 pp., £25, November 1996, 0 340 67132 7
Paul Foot
Full Disclosure by Andrew Neil. Macmillan, 481 pp., £20, October 1996, 0 333 64682 7
Stephen Fender
Bad Land: An American Romance by Jonathan Raban. Picador, 325 pp., £15.99, October 1996, 0 330 34621 0
Janette Turner Hospital
The Conversations at Curlow Creek by David Malouf. Chatto, 214 pp., £14.99, September 1996, 0 7011 6571 5
Lorna Sage
After Hannibal by Barry Unsworth. Hamish Hamilton, 242 pp., £16, September 1996, 0 241 13342 4
Andrew O’Hagan
Diary: How the Homing Pigeons Lost Their Way
Paul Seabright
Down with deflation!
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