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Vol. 9 No. 19 · 29 October 1987

  • Patrick Wright

    • White Chappell: Scarlet Tracings by Iain Sinclair

  • Letters

  • Richard Altick

    • George Scharf’s London: Sketches and Watercolours of a Changing City, 1820-50 by Peter Jackson

  • Neil Berry
    Britain’s Asians

  • Paul Seabright
    Sri Lanka’s Crisis

  • Mary-Kay Wilmers

    • Tears before Bedtime by Barbara Skelton
    • In the Pink by Caroline Blackwood

  • Frank Kermode

    • Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann

  • Les Murray
    Two Poems

  • Andrew Scull

    • The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture 1830-1980 by Elaine Showalter

  • John Barber

    • Socialism, Peace and Democracy: Writings, Speeches and Reports by Mikhail Gorbachev
    • Gorbachev by Zhores Medvedev
    • The Sixth Continent: Russia and Mikhail Gorbachov by Mark Frankland
    • Shadows and Whispers: Power Politics inside the Kremlin from Brezhnev to Gorbachev by Dusko Doder
    • Pravda: Inside the Soviet News Machine by Angus Roxburgh
    • Utopia in Power: A History of the USSR from 1917 to the Present by Michel Heller and Aleksandr Nekrich

  • Walter Patterson

    • Sarcophagus by Vladimir Gubaryev, translated by Michael Glenny
    • The Star Chernobyl by Julia Voznesenskaya
    • Chernobyl: A Novel by Frederick Pohl
    • Mayday at Chernobyl by Henry Hamman and Stuart Parrott
    • State of the World 1987: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress toward a Sustainable Society by Lester Brown

  • John Bayley

    • How I grew by Mary McCarthy
    • Myself and Michael Innes by J.I.M. Stewart

  • John Rosselli

    • Verdi: A Life in the Theatre by Charles Osborne

  • Tony Blair
    Diary

  • Tom Paulin

    • Emily Dickinson by Helen McNeil
    • Emily Dickinson: Looking to Canaan by John Robinson
    • Emily Dickinson: A Poet’s Grammar by Christanne Miller
    • Emily Dickinson: The Poet on the Second Story by Jerome Loving