Vol. 18 No. 11 · 6 June 1996

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Cover Artist

Peter Campbell

Christopher Hitchens

A Hard Dog to Keep on the Porch

Letters

Tom Paulin, C.B. Goodhart, Christopher Prendergast, Anthony Lester, Michael Elcock, David Kuhrt, Victor Menza, Roger Holdsworth

Marina Warner

Tituba Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies by Elaine Breslaw. New York, 237 pp., $24.95, February 1996, 0 8147 1227 4

Gerald Weissmann

The Harmony of Illusions: Inventing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder by Allan Young. Princeton, 327 pp., £28, March 1996, 0 691 03352 8

Iain Sinclair

Off-Beat

Robert Crawford

Poem: ‘A Life-Exam’

Frank Kermode

Revision and Romantic Authorship by Zachary Leader. Oxford, 354 pp., £40, March 1996, 0 19 812264 0

E.S. Turner

A Peculiar Man: A Life of George Moore by Tony Gray. Sinclair-Stevenson, 344 pp., £20, April 1996, 1 85619 578 3

David Trotter

The Letters of Rudyard Kipling. Vol. III: 1900-1910 edited by Thomas Pinney. Macmillan, 482 pp., £50, December 1995, 9780333637333

Philip French

The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives by Sebastian Faulks. Hutchinson, 309 pp., £16.99, April 1996, 0 09 179211 8

Peter Clarke

One Hundred Years of Socialism by Donald Sassoon. Tauris, 965 pp., £35, April 1996, 9781850438793

Sebastian Balfour

Juan Carlos of Spain: Self-Made Monarch by Charles Powell. Macmillan, 253 pp., £13.99, January 1996, 9780333649299
The Government and Politics of Spain by Paul Heywood. Macmillan, 331 pp., £42.50, November 1995, 0 333 52058 0

James Davidson

Satyrica by Petronius, translated by Bracht Branham and Daniel Kinney. Dent, 185 pp., £18.95, March 1996, 0 460 87766 6
The Satyricon by Petronius and P.G. Walsh. Oxford, 212 pp., £30, March 1996, 0 19 815012 1

Sean O’Brien

Dear Future by Fred D’Aguiar. Chatto, 206 pp., £14.99, March 1996, 0 7011 6537 5

Peter Hill

Diary: From the Lighthouse

Tom Vanderbilt

microserfs by Douglas Coupland. Flamingo, 371 pp., £9.99, November 1995, 0 00 225311 9

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