Vol. 3 No. 3 · 19 February 1981
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Vol. 3 No. 3 · 19 February 1981
Mark Elvin
History on Trial
Letters
Michael Freeman, Owen Dudley Edwards, George Watson, John Norman, Peter Geach, Kate Graham
Richard Rorty
Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977 by Michel Foucault, edited by Colin Gordon. Harvester, 270 pp., £18.50, October 1980, 9780855275570 Michel Foucault: The Will to Truth by Alan Sheridan. Tavistock, 243 pp., £10.50, November 1980, 0 422 77350 6 Herculine Barbin by Oscar Panizza and Michel Foucault, translated by Richard McDougall. Harvester, 199 pp., £7.95, September 1980, 0 85527 273 2
David Armstrong
The Policing of Families by Jacques Donzelot, translated by Robert Hurley. Hutchinson, 242 pp., £8.95, May 1980, 0 09 140950 0
Norman Malcolm
Culture and Value by Ludwig Wittgenstein, edited by G.H. von Wright, Heikki Nyman and Peter Winch. Blackwell, 94 pp., £9.50, September 1980, 0 631 12752 6
Edmund Leach
The Red Lamp of Incest: A Study in the Origins of Mind and Society by Robin Fox. Hutchinson, 271 pp., £7.95, January 1981, 0 09 144080 7 Betrayal of Innocence: Incest and its Devastation by Susan Forward and Craig Buck. Penguin, 154 pp., £1.95, February 1981, 0 14 022287 1
Penelope Lively
Memories by Frances Partridge. Gollancz, 238 pp., £9.95, January 1981, 0 575 02912 9 Notes from Sick Rooms by Leslie Stephen. Puckerbrush, 52 pp., £1.50, March 1981, 0 913006 16 5
Julian Barnes
Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote. Hamish Hamilton, 262 pp., £7.95, February 1981, 0 241 10541 2
Ralf Dahrendorf
Sociological Journeys: Essays 1960-1980 by Daniel Bell. Heinemann, 370 pp., £12.50, December 1980, 0 435 82069 9
Marghanita Laski
A Way to Die by Rosemary Zorza. Deutsch, 254 pp., £5.95, October 1980, 0 233 97355 9 Letter to a Younger Son by Christopher Leach. Dent, 155 pp., £5.95, January 1981, 0 460 04496 6 Bereavement by Colin Murray Parkes. Pelican, 267 pp., £1.50, June 1980, 0 14 021833 5
Claire Tomalin
The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Vol. 1 edited by Betty Bennett. Johns Hopkins, 591 pp., £18, July 1980, 0 8018 2275 0
Phillip Whitehead
Face the future by David Owen. Cape, 552 pp., £12.50, January 1981, 0 224 01956 2
John Ellis
Tomorrow at Dawn by J.G. de Beus. Norton, 191 pp., £5.75, April 1980, 0 393 01263 8 The Crucible of War by Barrie Pitt. Cape, 506 pp., £8.95, June 1980, 0 224 01771 3 Chindit by Richard Rhodes James. Murray, 214 pp., £10.50, August 1980, 0 7195 3746 0 The Chief by Ronald Lewin. Hutchinson, 282 pp., £7.95, September 1980, 9780091425005 Special Operations Europe: Scenes from the Anti-Nazi War by Basil Davidson. Gollancz, 288 pp., £8.50, July 1980, 0 575 02820 3
Ross McKibbin
Portrait of a Progressive: The Political Career of Christopher, Viscount Addison by Kenneth Morgan and Jane Morgan. Oxford, 326 pp., £15, May 1980, 9780198224945
Paul Muldoon
Poem: ‘from Last Poems’
Carol Rumens
Poem: ‘The Carpet Sweeper’
Vicki Feaver
Poem: ‘The Elements at Spartylea’
Simon Schaffer
The comet is coming! by Nigel Calder. BBC, 160 pp., £8.75, November 1980, 0 563 17859 0
Michael Irwin
Kepler by John Banville. Secker, 192 pp., £5.95, January 1981, 0 436 03264 3 The Daughter by Judith Chernaik. London Magazine Editions, 216 pp., £5.50, January 1981, 9780060107574 We always treat women too well by Raymond Queneau, translated by Barbara Wright. Calder, 174 pp., £8.95, January 1981, 0 7145 3687 3
Stephen Brook
The Star-Apple Kingdom by Derek Walcott. Cape, 58 pp., £2.50, March 1980, 0 224 01780 2 Selected Poems 1961-1978 by David Holbrook. Anvil, 143 pp., £5.95, November 1980, 0 85646 066 4 Death Valley and Other Poems in America by Alan Ross. London Magazine Editions, 92 pp., £3, June 1980, 0 904388 32 8 Poems 1955-1980 by Roy Fisher. Oxford, 193 pp., £7.95, November 1980, 0 19 211935 4 A.R.T.H.U.R. & M.A.R.T.H.A. by Laurence Lerner. Secker, 69 pp., £2.95, November 1980, 0 436 24440 3
Allan Massie
The Kennaway Papers by James Kennaway and Susan Kennaway. Cape, 141 pp., £5.50, January 1981, 0 224 01865 5
Randolph Quirk
Language – the Loaded Weapon by Dwight Bolinger. Longman, 224 pp., £9.95, October 1980, 0 582 29107 0
G.R. Wilson Knight
Coriolanus in Europe by David Daniell. Athlone, 168 pp., £9.95, October 1980, 0 485 11192 6
Elspeth Davie
Story: ‘Security’
Paul Kline
The Causes and Effects of Smoking by H.J. Eysenck. Temple Smith, 397 pp., £16.50, December 1980, 0 85117 186 9
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