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Vol. 19 No. 3 · 6 February 1997
Colm Tóibín
Heaven’s Coast: A Memoir by Mark Doty. Cape, 305 pp., £16.99, October 1996, 0 224 04390 0 Atlantis by Mark Doty. Cape, 95 pp., £7, July 1996, 0 224 04400 1 This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death by Harold Brodkey. Fourth Estate, 177 pp., £14.99, November 1996, 1 85702 546 6 PWA: Looking Aids in the Face by Oscar Moore. Picador, 185 pp., £6.99, November 1996, 0 330 35193 1
Letters
Charles Martindale, J.D. Manson, Alan Gabbey, Ian Gilmour, Rob Close, Louise Johnson, David Hayes, Fred Hunter, Matt Fretton
Keith Ewing and Conor Gearty
History of a Dog’s Dinner
Michael Longley
Two Poems
Paul Laity
The British Electricity Experiment edited by John Surrey. Earthscan, 329 pp., £40, July 1996, 1 85383 370 3
Blair Worden
Protestantism and Patriotism: Ideologies and the Making of English Foreign Policy 1650-68 by Steven Pincus. Cambridge, 506 pp., £45, May 1996, 0 521 43487 4
Michael Ignatieff
Giving Offence: Essays on Censorship by J.M. Coetzee. Chicago, 289 pp., $27.50, March 1996, 0 226 11174 1
Paul Driver
The Envy of the World: Fifty Years of the BBC Third Programme and Radio 3 by Humphrey Carpenter. Weidenfeld, 431 pp., £25, September 1996, 0 297 81720 5
Frank Kermode
Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life, Vol. II by Max Saunders. Oxford, 696 pp., £35, September 1996, 0 19 212608 3
E.S. Turner
The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh edited by Charlotte Mosley. Hodder, 531 pp., £25, October 1996, 0 340 63804 4
Anne Hollander
Yves St Laurent: A Biography by Alice Rawsthorn. HarperCollins, 405 pp., £20, November 1996, 0 00 255543 3
Jessamy Harvey
Anti-Gay edited by Mark Simpson. Cassell, 163 pp., £9.99, September 1996, 0 304 33144 9
Dale Peck
How Stella Got Her Groove Back by Terry McMillan. Viking, 368 pp., £16, September 1996, 0 670 86990 2 Push by Sapphire. Secker, 142 pp., £7.99, September 1996, 0 436 20291 3 The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid. Vintage, 228 pp., £8.99, September 1996, 0 09 973841 4
J. Hoberman
Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film by Lee Clark Mitchell. Chicago, 352 pp., £23.95, November 1996, 0 226 53234 8
Murray Sayle
Old Soldiers Never Die: The Life of Douglas MacArthur by Geoffrey Perret. Deutsch, 663 pp., £20, October 1996, 9780233990026
August Kleinzahler
Poem: ‘Self-Portrait’
Jane Holland
Diary: My Snooker Career
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