Contents


  • Gitta Sereny

    • Waldheim by Luc Rosenzweig and Bernard Cohen
    • Waldheim: The Missing Years by Robert Edwin Herzstein
  • Letters

  • Frank Kermode

    • William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion by Stanley Wells, Gary Taylor, John Jowett and William Montgomery
    • Disowning Knowledge in Six Plays of Shakespeare by Stanley Cavell
    • A History of English Literature by Alastair Fowler
  • Hilary Mantel

    • Women and Love. The New Hite Report: A Cultural Revolution in Progress by Shere Hite
  • Hilary Putnam

    • Quiddities: An Intermittently Philosophical Dictionary by W.V. Quine
    • Quine by Christopher Hookway
  • Alice Kavounas
    Poem: ‘Cape Fear’

  • Les Murray
    Poem: ‘The Billions’

  • Patrick Parrinder

    • On Modern Authority: The Theory and Condition of Writing, 1500 to the Present Day by Thomas Docherty
    • The Order of Mimesis: Balzac, Stendhal, Nerval, Flaubert by Christopher Prendergast
  • Richard Usborne

    • The Anglo-French Clash in Lebanon and Syria, 1940-1945 by A.B. Gaunson
    • Personal Patchwork 1939-1945 by Bryan Guinness
    • Staff Officer: The Diaries of Lord Moyne 1914-1918 edited by Brian Bond
  • Douglas Johnson

    • Les Sept Mitterrand by Catherine Nay
    • France Today by John Ardagh
    • Jacques Chirac by Franz-Oliver Giesbert
    • Monsieur Barre by Henri Amouroux
    • The Workers’ Movement by Alain Touraine, Michel Wieviorka and François Dubet, translated by Ian Patterson
    • The State and the Market Economy: Industrial Patriotism and Economic Intervention in France by Jack Hayward
    • France under Recession 1981-86 by John Tuppen
  • Tom Dunne

    • The Hereditary Bondsman: Daniel O’Connell, 1775-1829 by Oliver MacDonagh.
    • Eamon de Valera by Owen Dudley Edwards
    • Nationalism and Popular Protest in Ireland edited by C.H.E. Philpin
    • Northern Ireland: Soldiers talking, 1969 to Today by Max Arthur
    • War as a Way of Life: A Belfast Diary by John Conroy
  • Margaret Walters

    • Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
    • The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
    • Eight Months on Ghazzah Street by Hilary Mantel
  • Michael Dibdin
    Diary

  • John Sutherland

    • Misery by Stephen King
    • The Tommyknockers by Stephen King
    • Touch by Elmore Leonard
    • Sideswipe by Charles Willeford
    • Ratking by Michael Dibdin