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Vol. 7 No. 18 · 17 October 1985

  • John Barber

    • Origins of the Great Purges: The Soviet Communist Party Reconsidered 1933-1938 by J. Arch Getty
    • The Making of the Soviet System: Essays in the Social History of Interwar Russia by Moshe Lewin

  • Letters

  • Neal Ascherson

    • On Writing and Politics: 1967-1983 by Günter Grass, translated by Ralph Manheim
    • Günter Grass by Ronald Hayman

  • Ian Gilmour

    • Balfour: Intellectual Statesman by Ruddock Mackay
    • Austen Chamberlain: Gentleman in Politics by David Dutton

  • Nicholas Spice

    • The Good Apprentice by Iris Murdoch

  • Michael Neve

    • Hamlet Closely Observed by Martin Dodsworth
    • Hamlet edited by Philip Edwards
    • The Renaissance Hamlet: Issues and Responses in 1600 by Roland Mushat Frye

  • Barbara Everett

    • Alexander Pope by Maynard Mack
    • Pope’s ‘Essay on Man’ by A.D. Nuttall
    • The Last and Greatest Art: Some Unpublished Poetical Manuscripts of Alexander Pope by Maynard Mack
    • The New Oxford Book of 18th-Century Verse by Roger Lonsdale
    • Collected in Himself: Essays Critical, Biographical and Bibliographical on Pope and Some of his Contemporaries by Maynard Mack

  • Fiona Pitt-Kethley
    Two Poems

  • Graham Hough looks at a collection of American essays which allege a crisis in criticism, and ponders the long history of debate on literary education

    • Criticism in the University edited by Gerald Graff and Reginald Gibbons

  • Noël Annan

    • Secret Service: The Making of the British Intelligence Community by Christopher Andrew
    • The Secret Generation by John Gardner
    • Two Thyrds by Bertie Denham
    • The Ultimate Enemy: British Intelligence and Nazi Germany 1933-1939 by Wesley Wark

  • W.G. Runciman

    • The Return of Grand Theory in the Human Sciences edited by Quentin Skinner
    • Classes by Erik Olin Wright
    • Powers and Liberties: The Causes and Consequences of the Rise of the West by John Hall

  • Rosalind Mitchison

    • Water Power in Scotland: 1550-1870 by John Shaw
    • The History of the British Coal Industry. Vol. II: 1700-1830, The Industrial Revolution by Michael Flinn and David Stoker
    • Industry and Ethos: Scotland 1832-1914 by Sydney Checkland and Olive Checkland
    • The Jacobite Clans of the Great Glen: 1650-1784 by Bruce Lenman
    • The Prince and the Pretender: A Study in the Writing of History by A.J. Youngson
    • Canna: The Story of a Hebridean Island by J.L. Campbell

  • Rosemary Ashton

    • Troubled Lives: John and Sarah Austin by Lotte Hamburger and Joseph Hamburger

  • J.A. Burrow

    • Poetry of the Carolingian Renaissance by Peter Godman

  • Gavin Ewart
    Poem: ‘Tallness is all’

  • Christopher Reid

    • Collected Poems by Norman MacCaig

  • Alan Milward
    Diary

  • D.A.N. Jones

    • A Maggot by John Fowles
    • The Romances of John Fowles by Simon Loveday