Vol. 18 No. 2 · 25 January 1996

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Vol. 18 No. 2 · 25 January 1996

Perry Anderson

The Rotten Heart of Europe by Bernard Connolly. Faber, 427 pp., £17.50, September 1995, 0 571 17520 1
Orchestrating Europe: The Informal Politics of European Union 1973-93 by Keith Middlemas. Fontana, 821 pp., £27.50, November 1995, 0 00 255678 2

Letters

W.G. Runciman, Robert Ostermann, John Sutherland, F.H. Mares, Lorna Scott Fox, John Cook, Alan Ryan, Frank Lentricchia, Karl Patten, Carol Rumens, Nicholas Murray, Penny McCarthy, Neil Forster, Frank Phillips, George Schlesinger, Keith Flett

Anne Hollander

Cahiers: Le Sentiment by Nijinsky, translated into French by Christian Dumais-Lvorski and Galina Pogojeva. Actes Sud, 300 pp., frs 140, January 1995, 2 7427 0314 4

Wayne Koestenbaum

Mapplethorpe: A Biography by Patricia Morrisroe. Macmillan, 461 pp., £20, September 1995, 9780333669419
Playing with the Edge: The Photographic Achievement of Robert Mapplethorpe by Arthur Danto. California, 206 pp., £20, October 1995, 0 520 20051 9

Frank Kermode

Howard Hodgkin: Paintings by Michael Auping, John Elderfield and Susan Sontag, edited by Marla Price. Thames and Hudson, 216 pp., £28, October 1995, 0 500 09256 7
Howard Hodgkin by Andrew Graham-Dixon. Thames and Hudson, 192 pp., £24.95, October 1994, 0 500 27769 9

Michael Wood

Essays in Dissent: Church, Chapel and the Unitarian Conspiracy by Donald Davie. Carcanet, 264 pp., £25, October 1995, 1 85754 123 5

Hugh Haughton

Selected Poems by David Gascoyne. Enitharmon, 253 pp., £8.95, November 1994, 1 870612 34 5

David Gascoyne

Diary: Notebook, New Year 1991

John Bayley

Terence Rattigan: A Biography by Geoffrey Wansell. Fourth Estate, 428 pp., £20, October 1995, 1 85702 201 7

Patrick Parrinder

Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories by Italo Calvino, translated by Tim Parks. Cape, 276 pp., £15.99, November 1995, 0 224 03732 3

Ian Hamilton

Not Playing for Celtic: Another Paradise Lost by David Bennie. Mainstream, 221 pp., £12.99, October 1995, 1 85158 757 8
Achieving the Goal by David Platt. Richard Cohen, 244 pp., £12.99, October 1995, 1 86066 017 7
Captain’s Log: The Gary McAllister Story by Gary McAllister and Graham Clark. Mainstream, 192 pp., £14.99, October 1995, 9781851587902
Blue Grit: The John Brown Story by John Brown and Derek Watson. Mainstream, 176 pp., £14.99, November 1995, 1 85158 822 1
Kicking and Screaming: An Oral History of Football in England by Rogan Taylor and Andrew Ward. Robson, 370 pp., £16.95, October 1995, 0 86051 912 0
A Passion for the Game: Real Lives in Football by Tom Watt. Mainstream, 316 pp., £14.99, October 1995, 1 85158 714 4

Anthony Howard

Plant Here the ‘Standard’ by Dennis Griffiths. Macmillan, 417 pp., £35, November 1995, 0 333 55565 1

Stephen Smith

Diary: On Alpha 66

Frank Cioffi

Wittgenstein Reads Freud: The Myth of the Unconscious by Jacques Bouveresse, translated by Carol Cosman. Princeton, 143 pp., £15.95, June 1995, 0 691 03425 7

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