Vol. 17 No. 6 · 23 March 1995

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Cover Artist

Peter Campbell

John Kerr

The Jung Cult: Origins of a Charismatic Movement by Richard Noll. Princeton, 387 pp., £19.95, January 1995, 0 691 03724 8

Letters

Anthony Thwaite, Ian Hamilton, Patrick Parrinder, Roger Osborne, Willie Thompson, Ian R. Macneil of Barra, Norma Pittard, Dominic Rainsford, David Nokes, Nicholas Benda, Anthony Walter

John Leslie

The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead by Frank Tipler. Macmillan, 528 pp., £20, January 1995, 0 333 61864 5

Tom Nairn

Frameworks for the Future  Northern Ireland Office, 37 pp., February 1995
Northern Ireland: The Choice by Kevin Boyle and Tom Hadden. Penguin, 256 pp., £6.99, May 1994, 0 14 023541 8

Wendy Doniger

From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers by Marina Warner. Chatto, 458 pp., £20, October 1994, 0 7011 3530 1

Leslie Wilson

Salem’s Lot

Elaine Showalter

Little Women directed by Gillian Armstrong.

John Bayley

Cyril Connolly: A Nostalgic Life by Clive Fisher. Macmillan, 304 pp., £20, March 1995, 0 333 57813 9

Hugo Williams

Eight Poems

Ian Gilmour

Marriage, Debt and the Estates System: English Landownership 1650-1950 by John Habakkuk. Oxford, 786 pp., £65, September 1994, 0 19 820398 5

James Buchan

The Oxford Book of Money edited by Kevin Jackson. Oxford, 479 pp., £17.99, February 1995, 0 19 214200 3

Maurice Walsh

The First Crisis of the 21st Century

Michael Wood

The Stone Raft by José Saramago, translated by Giovanni Pontiero. Harvill, 263 pp., £15.99, November 1994, 0 00 271321 7

A. Craig Copetas

The Mexican Tree Duck by James Crumley. Picador, 247 pp., £15.99, May 1994, 0 330 32451 9
One to Count Cadence by James Crumley. Picador, 338 pp., £5.99, May 1994, 0 330 32450 0

Eric Foner

Telling the Truth about History by Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt and Margaret Jacob. Norton, 322 pp., £19.95, August 1994, 0 393 03615 4

John Sutherland

Huxley: The Devil’s Disciple by Adrian Desmond. Joseph, 474 pp., £20, November 1994, 0 7181 3641 1

Malcolm Bull

Nicolas Poussin, 1594-1665 by Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat. Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 560 pp., frs 350, September 1994, 2 7118 3027 6
Nicolas Poussin by Anthony Blunt. Pallas Athene, 690 pp., £24.95, January 1995, 1 873429 64 9
Nicolas Poussin 1594-1665 by Richard Verdi, with an essay by Pierre Rosenberg. Zwemmer, 336 pp., £39.50, January 1995, 0 302 00647 8
Roma 1630: Il trionfo del pennello edited by Olivier Bonfait. Electa, 260 pp., July 1994, 88 435 5047 0
Poussin before Rome 1594-1624 by Jacques Thuillier. Feigen, 119 pp., £40, January 1995, 1 873232 03 9
The Expression of the Passions by Jennifer Montagu. Yale, 256 pp., £35, October 1994, 0 300 05891 8
L’Ecole du silence by Marc Fumaroli. Flammarion, 512 pp., frs 295, May 1994, 2 08 012618 0
To Destroy Painting by Louis Marin, translated by Mette Hjort. Chicago, 196 pp., £31.95, April 1995, 0 226 50535 9

Stephen Smith

Diary: What’s become of Barings?

Hanif Kureishi

Story: ‘We’re not Jews’

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