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Vol. 11 No. 20 · 26 October 1989

  • Alan Bennett
    The Lady in the Van

  • Letters

  • Christopher Hitchens

    • The Rushdie File edited by Lisa Appignanesi and Sara Maitland
    • CounterBlasts No 4: Sacred Cows by Fay Weldon
    • Salman Rushdie and the Third World: Myths of the Nation by Timothy Brennan

  • John Bayley

    • Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver
    • The Open Work by Umberto Eco, translated by Anna Cancogni

  • Ian Aitken

    • Dick Crossman: A Portrait by Tam Dalyell

  • William Rodgers

    • Livingstone’s Labour: A Programme for the Nineties by Ken Livingstone

  • Mary-Kay Wilmers

    • Margaret, Daughter of Beatrice: A Politician’s Psycho-Biography of Margaret Thatcher by Leo Abse

  • Mary Beard

    • After Thatcher by Paul Hirst
    • Out of Apathy: Voices of the New Left Thirty Years On
    • Essays on Politics and Literature by Bernard Crick

  • Seamus Heaney
    Six Poems

  • Frank Kermode

    • Aganist Deconstruction by John Ellis
    • The New Historicism by H. Aram Veeser
    • Rethinking Historicism: Critical Essays in Romantic History by Marjorie Levinson, Marilyn Butler, Jerome McGann and Paul Hamilton
    • Towards a Literature of Knowledge by Jerome McGann
    • The Stoic in Love: Selected Essays on Literature and Ideas by A.D. Nuttall

  • Stephen Spender
    What I believe

  • Angela Carter
    The Merchant of Shadows

  • Anthony Thwaite

    • Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath by Anne Stevenson

  • John Lanchester

    • The Letters of John Cheever edited by Benjamin Cheever
    • Mary McCarthy by Carol Gelderman
    • The company she keeps by Mary McCarthy

  • Susannah Clapp

    • Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography by Claire Harman
    • For Sylvia: An Honest Account by Valentine Ackland

  • David Craig

    • Touching the void by Joe Simpson
    • Climbers by M. John Harrison

  • Michael Hofmann
    Poem: ‘Lament for Crassus’

  • Theodore Zeldin

    • Pan Encyclopedia edited by Judith Hannam
    • Longman Encyclopedia edited by Asa Briggs
    • International Encyclopedia of Communications: Vols I-IV edited by Erik Barnouw
    • The Cambridge Encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives edited by Francis Robinson
    • Concise Encyclopedia of Islam by Cyril Glass
    • The World’s Religions by Ninian Smart
    • The New Physics edited by Paul Davies
    • The Middle Ages: A Concise Encyclopedia by H.R. Loyn
    • China in World History by S.A.M. Adshead

  • Ian Jack

    • From Moorepark to Wine Alley: The Rise and Fall of a Glasgow Housing Scheme by Sean Damer

  • Karl Miller
    Diary

  • Gunnar Pettersson

    • Under Fire: My Own Story by Simon Hayward