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Vol. 15 No. 21 · 4 November 1993

  • Edmund White

    • To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life: A Novel by Hervé Guibert, translated by Linda Coverdale
    • The Man in the Red Hat by Hervé Guibert, translated by James Kirkup
    • The Compassion Protocol by Hervé Guibert, translated by James Kirkup

  • Letters

  • John Bayley

    • Dr Johnson & Mr Savage by Richard Holmes
    • Samuel Johnson by Pat Rogers

  • Jon Silkin
    Poem: ‘The Fathers’

  • Alastair Logan
    A sewer runs through it

  • Paul Foot

    • Ambushed: My Story by Judith Ward

  • Perry Anderson

    • Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change, Political Conflict and London’s Overseas Traders 1550-1653 by Robert Brenner
    • The Nature of the English Revolution by John Morrill

  • Blair Worden

    • Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain edited by Nicholas Phillipson and Quentin Skinner

  • John Robertson

    • G.B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern by Mark Lilla
    • The Rehabilitation of Myth: Vico’s ‘New Science’ by Joseph Mali

  • Jonathan Bate

    • Forests: The shadow of Civilisation by Robert Pogue Harrison

  • Jeremy Waldron

    • Beyond the New Right: Markets, Government and the Common Environment by John Gray

  • Frank Kermode

    • Shear by Tim Parks

  • Stephen Wilson
    Poem: ‘Restoration’

  • Nicholas Spice

    • The Green Knight by Iris Murdoch

  • Lorna Sage
    Grandma at home

  • M.F. Burnyeat

    • Testimony: A Philosophical Study by C.A.J. Coady

  • J.B. Trapp

    • Erasmus: His Life, Work and Influence by Cornelis Augustijn, translated by J.C. Grayson
    • Erasmus: A Critical Biography by Léon-E. Halkin, translated by John Tonkin
    • Erasmus, Man of Letters: The Construction of Charisma in Print by Lisa Jardine

  • Anthony Grafton

    • A History of Cambridge University Press. Vol. I: Printing and the Book Trade in Cambridge, 1534-1698 by David McKitterick

  • Robert Crawford
    Poem: ‘Conditions of Employment’

  • Christopher Kelly

    • Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity: Towards a Christian Empire by Peter Brown

  • Mary Lefkowitz

    • In and Out of the Mind: Images of the Tragic Self by Ruth Padel
    • The Age of Grace: Charis in Early Greek Poetry by Bonnie MacLachlan

  • Stuart Sutherland

    • The Making of Memory: From Molecules to Mind by Steven Rose

  • Ian Stewart

    • The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier by Bruce Sterling
    • The New Hacker’s Dictionary edited by Eric Raymond
    • Approaching Zero: Data Crime and the Computer Underworld by Bryan Clough and Paul Mungo

  • Julian Loose

    • Virtual Light by William Gibson
    • Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Post-Modern Science Fiction by Scott Bukatman

  • Christopher Hitchens
    Diary

  • Ronald Paulson

    • Painting for Money: The Visual Arts and the Public Sphere in 18th-Century England by David Solkin