Vol. 13 No. 2 · 24 January 1991

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Vol. 13 No. 2 · 24 January 1991

Avi Shlaim

Israel and the Gulf

Letters

Noël Annan, Keith Flett, Stephen Frears, Frank Kermode, Hilary Gaskin, Jonathan Bate, Peter Campbell, Kenneth Rose

Robert Service

The Russian Revolution 1899-1919 by Richard Pipes. Harvill, 946 pp., £20, December 1990, 0 00 272086 8

Harold Perkin

The Second Socialist Revolution: An Alternative Soviet Strategy by Tatyana Zaslavskaya, translated by Susan Davies. Tauris, 241 pp., £19.95, February 1990, 1 85043 151 5

Stephen Greenblatt

Where little Fyodor played

John Bayley

Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova, selected and translated by Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward. Harvill, 173 pp., £5.95, November 1989, 0 00 271041 2
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova translated by Judith Hemschemeyer, edited by Roberta Reeder. Zephyr, 1635 pp., £85, October 1990, 0 939010 13 5
The Garden: New and Selected Poetry and Prose by Bella Akhmadulina. Boyars, 171 pp., £9.95, January 1991, 0 7145 2924 9

William Empson

Magnificent Cuckolds

Martin Hollis

The Cement of Society: A Study of Social Order by Jon Elster. Cambridge, 311 pp., £30, October 1989, 0 521 37456 1
Solomonic Judgments: Studies in the Limitations of Rationality by Jon Elster. Cambridge, 232 pp., £25, October 1989, 9780521374576
Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences by Jon Elster. Cambridge, 184 pp., £22.50, October 1989, 0 521 37455 3

Colin McGinn

Animal Liberation by Peter Singer. Cape, 320 pp., £15.95, October 1990, 0 224 03018 3

Ian Pople

Poem: ‘For Jon, Pam, Tom and Katie up in the air’

Michael Wood

The General in his Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Edith Grossman. Cape, 285 pp., £13.99, January 1991, 0 224 03083 3

Mark Ford

Hunting Mister Heartbreak by Jonathan Raban. Harvill, 428 pp., £14, November 1990, 0 00 272031 0

Rosalind Mitchison

Naomi Mitchison: A Biography by Jill Benton. Pandora, 192 pp., £15.95, September 1990, 0 04 440460 3

Julie Davidson

Rape: My Story by Jill Saward and Wendy Green. Bloomsbury, 153 pp., £13.99, September 1990, 0 7475 0751 1

Frank Kermode

A Tenured Professor by John Kenneth Galbraith. Sinclair-Stevenson, 197 pp., £12.95, November 1990, 1 85619 018 8
Shade those laurels by Cyril Connolly and Peter Levi. Bellew, 174 pp., £12.95, October 1990, 0 947792 37 6

Alan Bennett

Diary: What I did in 1990

Paul Delany

D.H. Lawrence: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers. Macmillan, 446 pp., £19.95, August 1990, 0 333 49247 1
D.H. Lawrence by Tony Pinkney. Harvester, 180 pp., £30, June 1990, 0 7108 1347 3
England, My England, and Other Stories by D.H. Lawrence, edited by Bruce Steele. Cambridge, 285 pp., £37.50, March 1990, 0 521 35267 3
The ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ Trial (Regina v. Penguin Books Limited) edited by H. Montgomery Hyde. Bodley Head, 333 pp., £18, June 1990, 0 370 31105 1
Boy by James Hanley. Deutsch, 191 pp., £11.99, August 1990, 0 233 98578 6
D.H. Lawrence: A Literary Life by John Worthen. Macmillan, 196 pp., £27.50, September 1989, 0 333 43352 1

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