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Vol. 10 No. 19 · 27 October 1988
Julian Barnes
In Search of J.D. Salinger by Ian Hamilton. Heinemann, 222 pp., £12.95, September 1988, 0 434 31331 9
Letters
Diana Mosley, Jeremy Holmes, David Nokes, Richard Lansdown, Judith Kazantzis, Giles Gordon, Ted Burford
Robert Fisk
Robert Fisk writes about Oliver North’s contributions to the ordeal of the Middle East
Jon Elster
Jon Elster goes to China
Alasdair St John
Hong Kong by Jan Morris. Viking, 304 pp., £14.95, September 1988, 0 670 80792 3
Dick Wilson
Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train through China by Paul Theroux. Hamish Hamilton, 494 pp., £14.95, September 1988, 0 241 12547 2 Discos and Democracy: China in the Throes of Reform by Orville Schell. Pantheon, 384 pp., $19.95, June 1988, 9780394568294 The Star Raft: China’s Encounter with Africa by Philip Snow. Weidenfeld, 250 pp., £14.95, June 1988, 0 297 79081 1 Ancestors: Nine Hundred Years in the Life of a Chinese Family by Frank Ching. Harrap, 528 pp., £12.95, September 1988, 0 245 54675 8
Brad Leithauser
Poem: ‘A Bowl of Chinese Fireworks’
Tom Shippey
The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe edited by George Holmes. Oxford, 398 pp., £17.50, March 1988, 0 19 820073 0 A History of 12th-century Western Philosophy edited by Peter Dronke. Cambridge, 495 pp., £37.50, April 1988, 0 521 25896 0 The Cambridge History of Medieval Political Thought c.350-c.1450 edited by J.H. Burns. Cambridge, 808 pp., £60, May 1988, 0 521 24324 6 Medieval Popular Culture: Problem of Belief and Perception by Aron Gurevich, translated by Janos Bak and Paul Hollingsworth. Cambridge, 275 pp., £27.50, May 1988, 0 521 30369 9 A History of Private Life: Revelations of the Medieval World edited by George Duby, translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Harvard, 650 pp., £24.95, April 1988, 0 674 39976 5
Stephen Greenblatt
Inheriting Power: The Story of an Exorcist by Giovanni Levi, translated by Lydia Cochrane. Chicago, 209 pp., £21.50, June 1988, 0 226 47417 8
Alan Ryan
The Trial of Socrates by I.F. Stone. Cape, 282 pp., £12.95, September 1988, 0 224 02591 0
Howard Brenton
Poem: ‘The walls of Spandau speak’
Robert Crawford
Poem: ‘Robert Crawford’
Johann Sommerville
The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800 by Geoffrey Parker. Cambridge, 234 pp., £15, May 1988, 0 521 32607 9 War and Society in Europe of the Old Regime: 1618-1789 by M.S. Anderson. Fontana, 239 pp., £4.95, May 1988, 0 00 686053 2 Waging war: A Philosophical Introduction by Ian Clark. Oxford, 154 pp., £17.50, April 1988, 0 19 827325 8
Philip Towle
Without the Bomb: The Politics of Nuclear Non-Proliferation by Mitchell Reiss. Columbia, 337 pp., $35, January 1988, 0 231 06438 1 Deep Black: The Secrets of Space Espionage by William Burrows. Bantam, 401 pp., £14.95, January 1988, 0 593 01342 5 Democracy and Deterrence: The History and Future of Nuclear Strategy by Philip Bobbitt. Macmillan, 350 pp., £29.50, March 1988, 0 333 43537 0
David Landes
The Metronomic Society: Natural Rhythms and Human Timetables by Michael Young. Thames and Hudson, 301 pp., £16.95, May 1988, 0 500 01443 4
W.G. Runciman
Plough, Sword and Book: The Structure of Human History by Ernest Gellner. Collins, 288 pp., £15, August 1988, 0 00 217178 3
Peter Porter
Poem: ‘Serious Drinking’
Gabriele Annan
Nothing to Forgive: A Daughter’s Life of Antonia White by Lyndall Hopkinson. Chatto, 376 pp., £12.95, August 1988, 0 7011 2969 7
John Bayley
Woman to Woman: Female Friendship in Victorian Fiction by Tess Cosslett. Harvester, 211 pp., £29.95, July 1988, 0 7108 1015 6 Sentiment and Sociability: The Language of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century by John Mullan. Oxford, 261 pp., £25, June 1988, 0 19 812865 7 The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney. Vol. I: 1768-1773 edited by Lars Troide. Oxford, 353 pp., £45, June 1988, 9780198125815
Anthony Thwaite
Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography by Frances Spalding. Faber, 331 pp., £15, October 1988, 0 571 15207 4
Edward Mendelson
Diary: Three Joyces
Nicholas Penny
Rembrandt’s Enterprise: The Studio and the Market by Svetlana Alpers. Thames and Hudson, 160 pp., £20, May 1988, 0 226 01514 9 The Light of Early Italian Painting by Paul Hills. Yale, 160 pp., £20, March 1987, 0 300 03617 5 Italian Paintings in the Robert Lehman Collection by John Pope-Hennessy. Metropolitan Museum and Princeton, 331 pp., £50, December 1987, 0 87099 479 4
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