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Contents

Vol. 17 No. 20 · 19 October 1995

  • John Bayley

    • A la Pym: The Barbara Pym Cookery Book by Hilary Pym and Honor Wyatt

  • Letters

  • John Sutherland
    The Great NBA Disaster

  • Christopher Hitchens

    • Palimpsest: A Memoir by Gore Vidal

  • Michael Wood

    • Sabbath’s Theater by Philip Roth

  • Barbara Johnson

    • Post Scripts: The Writer’s Workshop by Vincent Kaufmann, translated by Deborah Treisman
    • The Oxford Book of Letters edited by Frank Kermode and Anita Kermode

  • Allen Curnow
    Poem: ‘Pacific 1945-1995’

  • Susan Eilenberg

    • Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind by Patricia Meyer Spacks

  • Jacqueline Rose

    • Christina Rossetti: A Literary Biography by Jan Marsh

  • Stephen Sedley

    • Overcoming Law by Richard Posner

  • Peter Bradshaw

    • The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture by Jonathan Sawday

  • James Davidson

    • Foucault’s Virginity: Ancient Erotic Fiction and the History of Sexuality by Simon Goldhill

  • Wendy Steiner

    • Gertrude Stein in Words and Pictures by Renate Stendhal
    • ‘Favoured Strangers’: Gertrude Stein and Her Family by Linda Wagner-Martin

  • Tony Tanner

    • Bret Harte: Selected Stories and Sketches by David Wyatt

  • A. Craig Copetas

    • Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825-1908 edited by Dean A. Sullivan

  • Mark Elvin

    • Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860 by Richard Grove

  • Seamus Deane

    • Heathcliff and the Great Hunger: Studies in Irish Culture by Terry Eagleton

  • Amit Chaudhuri
    The Man from Khurda District

  • David Blackbourn

    • Reflections on a Life by Norbert Elias
    • The Civilising Process by Norbert Elias

  • James Miller

    • Hannah Arendt/Martin Heidegger by Elzbieta Ettinger
    • Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954: Uncollected and Unpublished Works by Hannah Arendt, edited by Jerome Kohn
    • Hannah Arendt: A Reinterpretation of Her Political Thought by Margaret Canovan
    • Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy edited by Carol Brightman
    • Hannah Arendt/Karl Jaspers: Correspondence, 1926-1969 edited by Lotte Kohler and Hans Saner, translated by Robert and Rita Kimber

  • Ritchie Robertson

    • Georg Büchner: The Shattered Whole by John Reddick
    • Complete Plays, ‘Lenz’ and Other Writings by Georg Büchner, translated by John Reddick

  • Jane Campbell

    • Moo by Jane Smiley

  • Maurice Riordan
    Poem: ‘The Lettuce’

  • Gaby Wood

    • The Blue Suit by Richard Rayner
    • The Liar’s Club by Mary Karr

  • Duncan Campbell

    • The Autobiography of a Thief by Bruce Reynolds

  • Jenny Diski
    Diary

  • Peter Wollen

    • Sex and Suits by Anne Hollander