Vol. 16 No. 13 · 7 July 1994

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Cover Artist

Peter Campbell

Edward Said

The Sixties: The Last Journal, 1960-1972 by Edmund Wilson, edited by Lewis Dabney. Farrar, Straus, 968 pp., $35, July 1993, 0 374 26554 2

Letters

Gerry Dukes, James MacGibbon, Mark Prosser, Russell Marshall, John Philip, Noel Malcolm, Terence Hegarty, Elizabeth Greene, Edward Wilson, Keith Flett

Michael Hofmann

Walking Possession: Essays and Reviews 1968-1993 by Ian Hamilton. Bloomsbury, 302 pp., £20, May 1994, 0 7475 1712 6
Gazza Italia by Ian Hamilton. Granta, 188 pp., £5.99, May 1994, 0 14 014073 5

Michael Wood

The Cryptogram by David Mamet. The Ambassador's Theatre
A Whore’s Profession: Notes and Essays by David Mamet. Faber, 412 pp., £12.99, June 1994, 0 571 17076 5

Terry Eagleton

The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats. Vol. III: 1901-1904 edited by John Kelly and Ronald Schuchard. Oxford, 781 pp., £35, May 1994, 0 19 812683 2
Modern Irish Literature: Sources and Founders by Vivian Mercier. Oxford, 381 pp., £30, April 1994, 0 19 812074 5

James Wood

Art & Lies by Jeanette Winterson. Cape, 224 pp., £14.99, June 1994, 0 224 03145 7

Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life by Lyndall Gordon. Chatto, 418 pp., £17.99, March 1994, 9780701161378
Shared Lives by Lyndall Gordon. Vintage, 285 pp., £6.99, March 1994, 0 09 942461 4
The Sickroom in Victorian Fiction: The Art of Being Ill by Miriam Bailin. Cambridge, 169 pp., £30, April 1994, 0 521 44526 4

Allen Curnow

Poem: ‘A South Island Night’s Entertainment’

Fredric Jameson

Past Imperfect: French Intellectuals, 1944-1956 by Tony Judt. California, 348 pp., £11.95, February 1994, 0 520 08650 3
Arguing Revolution: The Intellectual Left in Post-War France by Sunil Khilnani. Yale, 264 pp., £19.95, December 1993, 0 300 05745 8

John Sturrock

Balzac by Graham Robb. Picador, 521 pp., £20, June 1994, 0 330 33237 6
Honoré de Balzac by Roger Pierrot. Fayard, 582 pp., frs 180, March 1994, 2 213 59228 4
César Birotteau by Honoré de Balzac and Robin Buss. Penguin, 279 pp., £6.99, January 1994, 0 14 044641 9

David Solkin

Nineteenth-Century Art: A Critical History by Stephen Eisenman, Thomas Crow, Brian Lukacher, Linda Nochlin and Frances Pohl. Thames and Hudson, 376 pp., £35, March 1994, 0 500 23675 5

John Lloyd

The View from the Kremlin by Boris Yeltsin, translated by Catharine Fitzpatrick. HarperCollins, 316 pp., £18, May 1994, 0 00 255544 1

Stuart Sutherland

Listening to Prozac by Peter Kramer. Fourth Estate, 409 pp., £16.99, April 1994, 1 85702 233 5

Tom Jaine

The Alchemy of Culture: Intoxicants in Society by Richard Rudgley. British Museum, 160 pp., £14.95, October 1993, 0 7141 1736 6

Robert Irwin

Diary: Pinball and Despair

Steven Rose

The Astounding Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul by Francis Crick. Simon and Schuster, 317 pp., £16.99, May 1994, 9780671711580

Anne Stevenson

Poem: ‘Alas’

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