Alan Bennett

Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life by Andrew Motion. Faber, 570 pp., £20, April 1993, 0 571 15174 4

Letters

Edward Said, Paul Lawrence Rose, Svetlana Allilueva, Danny Karlin, William Harward, D.A. Callard, Paul Taylor, Arlette Laduguie, John Bayley, Roland Allen, Jon Mee

John Bayley

Philip Larkin: Writer by James Booth. Harvester, 192 pp., £9.95, March 1992, 0 7450 0769 4

Patricia Beer

Lawrence’s Women: The Intimate Life of D.H. Lawrence by Elaine Feinstein. HarperCollins, 275 pp., £18, January 1993, 0 00 215364 5

Greil Marcus

Panegyric. Vol. I by Guy Debord, translated by James Brook. Verso, 79 pp., £29.95, January 1993, 0 86091 347 3
The Most Radical Gesture: The Situationist International in a Post-Modern Age by Sadie Plant. Routledge, 226 pp., £40, May 1992, 0 415 06222 5

D.J. Enright

On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored by Adam Phillips. Faber, 165 pp., £14.99, March 1993, 0 571 16925 2

Gabriele Annan

Alias Olympia: A Woman’s Search for Manet’s Notorious Model and Her Own Desire by Eunice Lipton. Thames and Hudson, 192 pp., £14.95, March 1993, 0 500 23651 8

Nicholas Penny

Henri Matisse: A Retrospective by John Elderfield. Thames and Hudson, 479 pp., £48, September 1992, 0 500 09231 1
Henri Matisse 1904-1917 by Yves-Alain Bois. Centre Pompidou, 524 pp., frs 220, February 1993, 2 85850 722 8

David Solkin

The Great Age of British Watercolours 1750-1880 by Andrew Wilton and Anne Lyles. Prestel, 339 pp., £21.50, January 1993, 3 7913 1254 5

Peter Campbell

The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell edited by Stephanie Terenzio. Oxford, 325 pp., £35, April 1993, 0 19 507700 8

Alistair Elliot

Poem: ‘A Memorial Service’

Adam Mars-Jones

Maybe the Moon by Armistead Maupin. Bantam, 307 pp., £14.99, February 1993, 0 593 02765 5

Penelope Fitzgerald

Poet and Dancer by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Murray, 199 pp., £14.99, April 1993, 0 7195 5189 7
Peerless Flats by Esther Freud. Hamish Hamilton, 218 pp., £14.99, February 1993, 0 241 13385 8

Jenny Diski

Story: ‘On the Existence of Mount Rushmore and Other Improbabilities’

Michael Wood

Malcolm X directed by Spike Lee.May 1993
By Any Means Necessary: The Trials and Tribulations of the Making of ‘Malcolm X’ by Spike Lee and Ralph Wiley. Vintage, 314 pp., £7.99, February 1993, 0 09 928531 2
Malcolm X: The Great Photographs compiled by Thulani Davis and Howard Chapnick. Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 168 pp., £14.99, March 1993, 1 55670 317 1

Stephen Smith

Diary: In LA

Anne Summers

Rules of Desire: Sex in Britain, World War One to the Present by Cate Haste. Chatto, 356 pp., £14.99, June 1992, 9780701140168
Marie Stopes and the Sexual Revolution by June Rose. Faber, 272 pp., £14.99, September 1992, 0 05 711620 2
Familiar Exploitation: A New Analysis of Marriage in Contemporary Western Societies by Christine Delphy and Diana Leonard. Polity, 301 pp., £45, June 1992, 0 7456 0858 2
The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies by Anthony Giddens. Polity, 212 pp., £19.50, July 1992, 0 7456 1012 9

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