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Vol. 10 No. 12 · 23 June 1988

  • Robert Fisk

    • The Yellow Wind by David Grossman, translated by Haim Watzman

  • Letters

  • David Gilmour

    • The Birth of Israel: Myths and Realities by Simha Flapan
    • Collusion across the Jordan: King Abdullah, the Zionist Movement and the Partition of Palestine by Avi Shlaim
    • The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949 by Benny Morris

  • Mark Mazower
    Waldheim goes to war

  • Jose Harris

    • The Health Services since the War. Vol. I: Problems of Health Care: The National Health Service before 1957 by Charles Webster

  • Tony Gould

    • When the fighting is over: A Personal Story of the Battle for Tumbledown Mountain and its Aftermath by John Lawrence and Robert Lawrence
    • Tumbledown by Charles Wood

  • David Trotter

    • The Government of the Tongue: The 1986 T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures, and Other Critical Writings by Seamus Heaney

  • Edward Mendelson

    • History and Value: The Clarendon Lectures and the Northcliffe Lectures 1987 by Frank Kermode
    • Nya by Stephen Haggard and Frank Kermode
    • British Writers of the Thirties by Valentine Cunningham

  • George Steiner

    • Wittgenstein. A Life: Young Ludwig 1889-1921 by Brian McGuinness

  • V.G. Kiernan on the high price of poison

    • The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery 1776-1848 by Robin Blackburn
    • Pro-Slavery: A History of the Defence of Slavery in America, 1701-1840 by Larry Tise
    • Haiti’s Influence on Antebellum America: Slumbering Volcano in the Caribbean by Alfred Hunt
    • Thomas Paine by A.J. Ayer
    • Paine and Cobbett: The Transatlantic Connection by David Wilson

  • Michael Brock

    • Corruption in British Politics, 1895-1930 by G.R. Searle

  • Stephen Fender

    • Hemingway by Kenneth Lynn
    • The Faces of Hemingway: Intimate Portraits of Ernest Hemingway by those who knew him by Denis Brian

  • W.G. Runciman
    Diary

  • Alistair Elliot
    Poem: ‘One of our Submarines’

  • Anthony Thwaite

    • The Silence in the Garden by William Trevor
    • Sea Music by David Profumo
    • Tell it me again by John Fuller
    • The Continuing Silence of a Poet: The Collected Short Stories of A.B. Yehoshua

  • Peter McDonald

    • You must remember this by Joyce Carol Oates
    • A Case of Knives by Candia McWilliam
    • Burning your own by Glenn Patterson