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Vol. 6 No. 18 · 4 October 1984

  • Neal Ascherson

    • Family Portrait with Fidel by Carlos Franqui, translated by Alfred MacAdam
    • Infante’s Inferno by G. Cabrera Infante, translated by Suzanne Levine

  • Letters

  • Iain McGilchrist

    • Doctors: The Lives and Work of GPs by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy
    • Bulimarexia: The Binge/Purge Cycle by Marlene Boskind-White and William White

  • Frank Honigsbaum

    • Roche versus Adams by Stanley Adams
    • Prescriptions for Death: The Drugging of the Third World by Milton Silverman, Philip Lee and Mia Lydecker
    • The Pharmaceutical Industry and Dependency in the Third World by Gary Gereffi
    • Corporate Crime in the Pharmaceutical Industry by John Braithwaite

  • Michael Black
    D.H. Lawrence and Gilbert Noon

  • Hugo Williams
    Poem: ‘Shelf Life’

  • Patricia Highsmith

    • Intimate Memoirs, including ‘Marie-Jo’s Book’ by Georges Simenon, translated by Harold Salemson

  • D.A.N. Jones

    • Lincoln by Gore Vidal
    • Stars and Bars by William Boyd

  • Thom Gunn
    Poem: ‘Lament’

  • Michael Wood

    • In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women by Alice Walker
    • Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
    • Democracy by Joan Didion

  • Paul Ginsborg
    Berlinguer’s Legacy

  • W.G. Runciman

    • The Theory of Communicative Action. Vol. One: Reason and the Rationalisation of Society by Jurgen Habermas, translated by Thomas McCarthy

  • Conrad Russell

    • The Experience of Defeat: Milton and Some Contemporaries by Christopher Hill

  • Richard Usborne
    Diary

  • Denis Donoghue

    • A Wave by John Ashbery
    • Secret Narratives by Andrew Motion
    • Liberty Tree by Tom Paulin
    • 111 Poems by Christopher Middleton
    • New and Selected Poems by James Michie
    • By the Fisheries by Jeremy Reed
    • Voyages by George Mackay Brown