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Vol. 9 No. 20 · 12 November 1987

  • Craig Raine

    • More die of heartbreak by Saul Bellow

  • Letters

  • Linda Colley

    • Women by Naim Attallah

  • Jane Miller

    • Beloved by Toni Morrison

  • Frank Kermode

    • For Love and Money: Writing, Reading, Travelling 1969-1987 by Jonathan Raban
    • Original Copy: Selected Reviews and Journalism 1969-1986 by John Carey

  • James Fox

    • Trail of Havoc: In the Steps of Lord Lucan by Patrick Marnham
    • Lucan: Not Guilty by Sally Moore

  • John Sutherland

    • The Foul and the Fragrant: Odour and the French Social Imagination by Alain Corbin, translated by Miriam Kochan
    • Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind, translated by John Woods
    • The Double Bass by Patrick Süskind, translated by Michael Hofmann

  • Peter Burke

    • The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age by Simon Schama

  • Claude Rawson

    • Samuel Richardson by Jocelyn Harris

  • Selima Hill
    Poem: ‘Mother Stone’

  • Sarah Lawson
    Poem: ‘‘Hamlet’’

  • Penelope Fitzgerald

    • Rebecca West: A Life by Victoria Glendinning
    • Family Memories by Rebecca West and Faith Evans

  • Danny Karlin

    • The Poems of Tennyson edited by Christopher Ricks
    • Tennyson’s ‘Maud’: A Definitive Edition edited by Susan Shatto
    • The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson. Vol.2: 1851-1870 edited by Cecil Lang and Edgar Shannon
    • The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse edited by Christopher Ricks

  • Simon Karlinsky

    • A Captive Lion: The Life of Marina Tsvetayeva by Elaine Feinstein
    • The Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva translated by Elaine Feinstein

  • Julian Barnes
    Diary

  • Guy Vanderhaeghe
    Home Place