Vol. 4 No. 15 · 19 August 1982

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Cover Artist

Johann Caspar Lavater

William Empson

Ulysses by Hugh Kenner. Allen and Unwin, 182 pp., £10, March 1980, 0 00 480003 6
A Starchamber Quiry: A James Joyce Centennial Volume 1882-1982 edited by E.L. Epstein. Methuen, 164 pp., £9.50, February 1982, 0 416 31560 7

Letters

H.J. Eysenck, Donna Schiffman, Michael Egan, Patrick Lyons, Peter Barry, Tom Paulin, Shaun Whiteside, Patrick Brown, Nigel Lewis

P.N. Furbank

John Buchan: A Memoir by William Buchan. Buchan and Enright, 272 pp., £9.95, May 1982, 0 907675 03 4
The Best Short Stories of John Buchan. Vol. II edited by David Daniell. Joseph, 240 pp., £8.50, June 1982, 9780718121211

Stuart Hampshire

The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, Vol II: June 1913-October 1916 edited by George Zytaruk and James Boulton. Cambridge, 700 pp., £20, May 1982, 0 521 23111 6
Selected Short Stories by D.H. Lawrence, edited by Brian Finney. Penguin, 540 pp., £1.95, June 1982, 0 13 043160 5
The Trespasser by D.H. Lawrence, edited by Elizabeth Mansfield. Cambridge, 327 pp., £22.50, April 1982, 0 521 22264 8

John Sturrock

The Siren’s Song by Maurice Blanchot, edited by Gabriel Josipovici and Sacha Rabinovich. Harvester, 255 pp., £20, June 1982, 0 85527 738 6

Michael Dummett

The Language Myth by Roy Harris. Duckworth, 212 pp., £18, August 1981, 0 7156 1528 9

Ted Hughes

Poem: ‘Remembering Teheran’

Roy Harris

From Locke to Saussure: Essays on the Study of Language and Intellectual History by Hans Aarsleff. Athlone, 422 pp., £18, May 1982, 9780485300017

Adam Morton

Frege: Philosophy of Language by Michael Dummett. Duckworth, 708 pp., £28, May 1981, 0 7156 1568 8
The Interpretation of Frege’s Philosophy by Michael Dummett. Duckworth, 621 pp., £35, September 1981, 0 7156 1540 8
Frege: An Introduction to his Philosophy by Gregory Currie. Harvester, 212 pp., £20, June 1982, 0 85527 826 9

Nicholas Murray

Carpetbagging in Bermondsey

Malcolm Deas

The Struggle for the Falkland Islands by Julius Goebel, introduced by J.C.J. Metford. Yale, 482 pp., £10, June 1982, 0 300 02943 8
The Falklands Islands Dispute: International Dimensions edited by Joan Pearce. Chatham House, 47 pp., £2.75, April 1982, 0 905031 25 3
The Falkland Islands: The Facts  HMSO, 12 pp., £50, May 1982, 0 11 701029 4

Donald Davie

Swansongs by Sue Lenier. Oleander Press, 80 pp., £7.50, April 1982, 9780906672044
Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath, edited by Ted Hughes. Faber, 351 pp., £10, September 1981, 0 571 10573 4
Devotions by Clive Wilmer. Carcanet, 63 pp., £3.25, June 1982, 0 85635 359 0

Patrick Hare

Poem: ‘Taken for a ride’

John Sutherland

A Prodigal Child by David Storey. Cape, 319 pp., £7.50, June 1982, 0 224 02027 7
The Prodigal Daughter by Jeffrey Archer. Hodder, 447 pp., £7.95, July 1982, 0 340 27687 8
Ralph by John Stonehouse. Cape, 318 pp., £6.95, May 1982, 0 224 02019 6
The Man from St Petersburg by Ken Follett. Hamish Hamilton, 292 pp., £7.95, May 1982, 0 241 10783 0
The Patriot Game by George Higgins. Secker, 237 pp., £7.50, July 1982, 0 436 19589 5

Ahdaf Soueif

Story: ‘The Water-Heater’

Clive James

Poem: ‘Diary’

Richard Altick

Physiognomy in the European Novel: Faces and Fortunes by Graeme Tytler. Princeton, 436 pp., £19.10, March 1982, 0 691 06491 1
A Human Comedy: Physiognomy and Caricature in 19th-century Paris by Judith Wechsler. Thames and Hudson, 208 pp., £18.50, June 1982, 0 500 01268 7

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