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Vol. 19 No. 7 · 3 April 1997
Ross McKibbin
Very Old Labour
Letters
S.W. Dawson, Adam Roberts, Brian Lang, Fernando de Torres, Tony Judt, Frank Kermode, John Harding, David Cobb, Jacob Mendlovic, Ron Haggart, William Reid, Betty Spice, James MacGibbon, Richard Nielson
Alistair Elliot
Poem: ‘Slugs’
Paul Foot
Once a Jolly Bagman: Memoirs by Alistair McAlpine. Weidenfeld, 269 pp., £20, March 1997, 9780297817376
Carlo Ginzburg
The Case of Adriano Sofri
Frank Lentricchia
No More Whining
Frank Kermode
The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion by Leo Steinberg. Chicago, 417 pp., £23.95, January 1997, 0 226 77187 3
Roger Scruton
The Dancing Column: On Order in Architecture by Joseph Rykwert. MIT, 598 pp., £49.95, May 1996, 0 262 18170 3
Richard Jenkyns
Art and the Victorian Middle Class: Money and the Making of Cultural Identity by Dianne Sachko Macleod. Cambridge, 375 pp., £65, October 1996, 0 521 55090 4
Jerrold Seigel
The Plight of Emulation: Ernest Meissonier and French Salon Painting by Marc Gotlieb. Princeton, 264 pp., £33.50, May 1996, 0 691 04374 4
Geoffrey Wall
Louis Bouilhet: Lettres à Gustave Flaubert edited by Maria Cappello. CNRS, 780 pp., frs 490, April 1996, 2 271 05288 2
Wayne Koestenbaum
The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion. Flamingo, 227 pp., £15.99, January 1997, 0 00 224080 7
Lorna Sage
A Regular Guy by Mona Simpson. Faber, 372 pp., £15.99, February 1997, 0 571 19079 0 The Keepsake by Kirsty Gunn. Granta, 224 pp., £14.99, March 1997, 9781862070134
Adam Phillips
The Scientific Revolution by Steven Shapin. Chicago, 218 pp., £15.95, December 1996, 0 226 75020 5
Patrick Collinson
The Sound of Virtue: Philip Sidney’s ‘Arcadia’ and Elizabethan Politics by Blair Worden. Yale, 406 pp., £40, October 1996, 0 300 06693 7
Edward Luttwak
Diary: In Deep Water in Bolivia
Kevin Kopelson
Shine directed by Scott Hicks.Shine: The Screenplay by Jan Sardi. Bloomsbury, 176 pp., £7.99, January 1997, 0 7475 3173 0 The Book of David by Beverley Eley. HarperCollins, 285 pp., £8.99, March 1997, 0 207 19105 0 Love You to Bits and Pieces: Life with David Helfgott by Gillian Helfgott, with Alissa Tanskaya. Penguin, 337 pp., £6.99, January 1997, 0 14 026546 5
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