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Vol. 10 No. 19 · 27 October 1988

  • Julian Barnes

    • In Search of J.D. Salinger by Ian Hamilton

  • Letters

  • Robert Fisk writes about Oliver North’s contributions to the ordeal of the Middle East

  • Jon Elster goes to China

  • Alasdair St John

  • Dick Wilson

    • Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train through China by Paul Theroux
    • Discos and Democracy: China in the Throes of Reform by Orville Schell
    • The Star Raft: China’s Encounter with Africa by Philip Snow
    • Ancestors: Nine Hundred Years in the Life of a Chinese Family by Frank Ching

  • Brad Leithauser
    Poem: ‘A Bowl of Chinese Fireworks’

  • Tom Shippey

    • The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe edited by George Holmes
    • A History of 12th-century Western Philosophy edited by Peter Dronke
    • The Cambridge History of Medieval Political Thought c.350-c.1450 edited by J.H. Burns
    • Medieval Popular Culture: Problem of Belief and Perception by Aron Gurevich, translated by Janos Bak and Paul Hollingsworth
    • A History of Private Life: Revelations of the Medieval World edited by George Duby, translated by Arthur Goldhammer

  • Stephen Greenblatt

    • Inheriting Power: The Story of an Exorcist by Giovanni Levi, translated by Lydia Cochrane

  • Alan Ryan

    • The Trial of Socrates by I.F. Stone

  • Howard Brenton
    Poem: ‘The walls of Spandau speak’

  • Robert Crawford
    Poem: ‘Robert Crawford’

  • Johann Sommerville

    • The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800 by Geoffery Parker
    • War and Society in Europe of the Old Regime: 1618-1789 by M.S. Anderson
    • Waging war: A Philosophical Introduction by Ian Clark

  • Philip Towle

    • Without the Bomb: The Politics of Nuclear Non-Proliferation by Mitchell Reiss
    • Deep Black: The Secrets of Space Espionage by William Burrows
    • Democracy and Deterrence: The History and Future of Nuclear Strategy by Philip Bobbitt

  • David Landes

    • The Metronomic Society: Natural Rhythms and Human Timetables by Michael Young

  • Peter Porter
    Poem: ‘Serious Drinking’

  • W.G. Runciman

    • Plough, Sword and Book: The Structure of Human History by Ernest Gellner

  • Gabriele Annan

    • Nothing to Forgive: A Daughter’s Life of Antonia White by Lyndall Hopkinson

  • John Bayley

    • Woman to Woman: Female Friendship in Victorian Fiction by Tess Cosslett
    • Sentiment and Sociability: The Language of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century by John Mullan
    • The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney. Vol. I: 1768-1773 edited by Lars Troide

  • Anthony Thwaite

    • Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography by Frances Spalding

  • Edward Mendelson
    Diary

  • Nicholas Penny

    • Rembrandt’s Enterprise: The Studio and the Market by Svetlana Alpers
    • The Light of Early Italian Painting by Paul Hills
    • Italian Paintings in the Robert Lehman Collection by John Pope-Hennessy