Vol. 11 No. 7 · 30 March 1989
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Vol. 11 No. 7 · 30 March 1989
Rajnarayan Chandavarkar
Nehru: The Making of India by M.J. Akbar. Viking, 609 pp., £17.95, January 1989, 9780670816996 Daughter of the East by Benazir Bhutto. Hamish Hamilton, 333 pp., £12.95, November 1988, 0 241 12398 4
Letters
Christopher Small, Christopher Scarles, David Wilson, Percy Cohen, R.W. Johnson, Paul Sawyer
William Rodgers
European Diary 1977-1981 by Roy Jenkins. Collins, 698 pp., £25, March 1989, 0 00 217976 8
Peter Clarke
Selwyn Lloyd by D.K. Thorpe. Cape, 516 pp., £18, February 1989, 0 224 02828 6
David Sylvester
Italy’s New Art
Andrew Forge
Art and Politics of the Second Empire: The Universal Expositions of 1855 and 1867 by Patricia Mainardi. Yale, 288 pp., £30, September 1987, 0 300 03871 2 Impressionism: Art, Leisure and Parisian Society by Robert Herbert. Yale, 324 pp., £24.95, September 1988, 0 300 04262 0
Nicholas Penny
Theoria: Art and the Absence of Grace by Peter Fuller. Chatto, 260 pp., £15, November 1988, 0 7011 2942 5 Seeing through Berger by Peter Fuller. Claridge, 176 pp., £8.95, November 1988, 1 870626 75 3 Cambridge Guide to the Arts in Britain. Vol. IX: Since the Second World War edited by Boris Ford. Cambridge, 369 pp., £19.50, November 1988, 0 521 32765 2 Ruskin’s Myths by Dinah Birch. Oxford, 212 pp., £22.50, August 1988, 9780198128724 The Sun is God: Painting, Literature and Mythology in the 19th Century edited by J.B. Bullen. Oxford, 230 pp., £27.50, March 1989, 0 19 812884 3 Artisans and Architects: The Ruskinian Tradition in Architectural Thought by Mark Swenarton. Macmillan, 239 pp., £35, February 1989, 0 333 46460 5
John Barrell
Sporting Art in 18th-Century England: A Social and Political History by Stephen Deuchar. Yale, 195 pp., £24.95, November 1988, 0 300 04116 0
Wendy Steiner
Scholarship and its Affiliations
Alastair Fowler
Relevance: Communication and Cognition by Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson. Blackwell, 279 pp., £8.95, March 1986, 0 631 13756 4 Human Agency: Language, Duty and Value edited by Jonathan Dancy, J.M.E. Moravcsik and C.C.W. Taylor. Stanford, 308 pp., $35, September 1988, 0 8047 1474 6
E.S. Turner
On my way to the Club by Ludovic Kennedy. Collins, 429 pp., £15, January 1989, 0 00 217617 3
Michael Hulse
Poem: ‘To Botho Strauss in Berlin’
Alethea Hayter
Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett: The Courtship Correspondence 1845-1846 edited by Daniel Karlin. Oxford, 363 pp., £17.50, March 1989, 0 19 818547 2
Michael Irwin
Have the men had enough? by Margaret Forster. Chatto, 251 pp., £12.95, March 1989, 0 7011 3400 3 Aurora’s Motive by Erich Hackl, translated by Edna McCown. Cape, 117 pp., £10.95, March 1989, 0 224 02584 8 The Open Door by Alan Sillitoe. Grafton, 358 pp., £11.95, February 1989, 0 246 13422 4
John Banville
A Theft by Saul Bellow. Penguin, 128 pp., £3.95, March 1989, 0 14 011969 8
Peter Parsons
Aulus Gellius: An Antonine Scholar and His Achievement by Leofranc Holford-Strevens. Duckworth, 284 pp., £35, November 1988, 0 7156 1971 3
Ahdaf Soueif
Story: ‘Melody’
Hilary Mantel
Diary: Bookcase Shopping in Jeddah
Conrad Russell
England’s Iconoclasts: Laws against Images by Margaret Aston. Oxford, 548 pp., £48, July 1988, 0 19 822438 9
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