Vol. 11 No. 1 · 5 January 1989

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Cover Artist

Rosalba Carriera

Sherry Turkle

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan. Book I: Freud’s Papers on Technique 1953-1954 edited by Jacques-Alain Miller, translated by John Forrester.
Book II: The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis 1954-1955 edited by Jacques-Alain Miller, translated by Sylvana Tomaselli. Cambridge, 314 pp., £35, May 1988, 0 521 26679 3

Letters

Paul Lamplugh, Christopher Ricks, Mary-Kay Wilmers, Charles Phillips, Keith Flett, Peter Wagner, Robert Knight, Ian Gilmour, William Milne

Bernard Williams

Whose justice? Which rationality? by Alasdair MacIntyre. Duckworth, 410 pp., £35, March 1988, 9780715621981

A.J. Ayer

Someone might go into the past

Theodore Zeldin

The Superstitious Mind by Judith Devlin. Yale, 316 pp., £22.50, March 1987, 0 300 03710 4

Tony Harrison

Poem: ‘The Mother of the Muses’

Marina Warner

The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa by David Gilmour. Quartet, 223 pp., £15.95, November 1988, 0 7043 2564 0

R.W. Johnson

Higher than Hope: ‘Rolihlahla we love you’ by Fatima Meer. Skotaville, 328 pp., R 15, July 1988, 0 947009 59 0

Angus Calder

Men, Women and Work: Class, Gender and Protest in the New England Shoe Industry, 1780-1910 by Mary Blewett. Illinois, 444 pp., $29.95, July 1988, 0 252 01484 7
Men’s Lives by Peter Matthiessen. Collins Harvill, 335 pp., £15, August 1988, 0 00 272519 3
On Work: Historical, Comparative and Theoretical Approaches edited by R.E. Pahl. Blackwell, 752 pp., £39.95, July 1988, 9780631157625
Slavery and Other Forms of Unfree Labour edited by Léonie Archer. Routledge, 307 pp., £28, August 1988, 0 415 00203 6
The Historical Meanings of Work edited by Patrick Joyce. Cambridge, 320 pp., £27.50, September 1987, 0 521 30897 6
Origins of Freemasonry: Scotland’s Century 1590-1710 by David Stevenson. Cambridge, 246 pp., £25, November 1988, 0 521 35326 2

Matt Simpson

Poems of Passage

David Craig

The King’s Jaunt: George IV in Scotland, 1822 by John Prebble. Collins, 399 pp., £15, November 1988, 0 00 215404 8

Alan Milward

Munich: The Eleventh Hour by Robert Kee. Hamish Hamilton, 242 pp., £14.95, September 1988, 0 241 12537 5
Peace for Our Time by Robert Rothschild. Brassey, 366 pp., £16.95, September 1988, 0 08 036264 8
A Class Divided: Appeasement and the Road to Munich 1938 by Robert Shepherd. Macmillan, 323 pp., £16.95, September 1998, 0 333 46080 4

Peter Burke

Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England by Stephen Greenblatt. Oxford, 205 pp., £22.50, April 1988, 0 19 812980 7
Representing the English Renaissance edited by Stephen Greenblatt. California, 372 pp., $42, February 1988, 0 520 06129 2

Claude Rawson

The Poems of John Oldham edited by Harold Brooks and Raman Selden. Oxford, 592 pp., £60, February 1987, 0 19 812456 2

John Lanchester

Arabesques by Anton Shammas, translated by Vivian Eden. Viking, 263 pp., £11.95, November 1988, 0 670 81619 1
Blösch by Beat Sterchi, translated by Michael Hofmann. Faber, 353 pp., £11.95, September 1988, 0 571 14934 0
A Casual Brutality by Neil Bissoondath. Bloomsbury, 378 pp., £12.95, September 1988, 0 7475 0252 8

Adam Begley

Capote: A Biography by Gerald Clarke. Hamish Hamilton, 632 pp., £16.95, July 1988, 0 241 12549 9
Jean Stafford: A Biography by David Roberts. Chatto, 494 pp., £16.95, August 1988, 0 7011 3010 5

Peter Campbell

The Letter of Marque by Patrick O’Brian. Collins, 284 pp., £10.95, August 1988, 9780241125434
Klara by Hugh Thomas. Hamish Hamilton, 347 pp., £12.95, October 1988, 0 241 12527 8
From Rockaway by Jill Eisenstadt. Penguin, 214 pp., £3.99, September 1988, 0 14 010347 3
The High Road by Edna O’Brien. Weidenfeld, 180 pp., £10.95, October 1988, 0 297 79493 0
Loving and Giving by Molly Keane. Deutsch, 226 pp., £10.95, September 1988, 0 223 98346 2
Tracks by Louise Erdrich. Hamish Hamilton, 226 pp., £11.95, October 1988, 9780241125434

David Gilmour

Diary: In Spain

John Bayley

Jack: C.S. Lewis and His Times by George Sayer. Macmillan, 278 pp., £14.95, November 1988, 0 333 43362 9
J.B. Priestley by Vincent Brome. Hamish Hamilton, 512 pp., £16.95, October 1988, 9780241125601
Eddy: The Life of Edward Sackville-West by Michael De-la-Noy. Bodley Head, 341 pp., £16, October 1988, 0 370 31164 7

Peter Gay

Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin by Deborah Hertz. Yale, 299 pp., £22.50, June 1988, 0 300 03775 9

Martyn Crucefix

Poem: ‘The Divorcee’

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