Vol. 12 No. 17 · 13 September 1990
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Vol. 12 No. 17 · 13 September 1990
Keith Kyle
Memories of Eden
Letters
C.G. Estabrook, Malcolm Evans, Norman Potter, Barbara Everett, Charles Morgenstern, Roy MacGregor-Hastie, Philip Stockil, Steve MacDonogh, Nicholas Griffin
Edward Said
Homage to a Belly-Dancer
John Hollander
Poem: ‘The Week’s Events’
Mary Douglas
A Green Manifesto for the 1990s by Penny Kemp and Derek Wall. Penguin, 212 pp., £4.99, July 1990, 0 14 013272 4 Social Philosophy and Ecological Scarcity by Keekok Lee. Routledge, 425 pp., £40, September 1989, 0 415 03220 2 Mother Country by Marilynne Robinson. Faber, 261 pp., £12.99, November 1989, 0 571 15453 0 Blueprint for a Green Economy by David Pearce, Anil Markandya and Edward Barbier. Earthscan, 192 pp., £6.95, September 1989, 1 85383 066 6 The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon by Susanna Hecht and Alexander Cockburn. Verso, 366 pp., £16.95, November 1989, 0 86091 261 2 Thinking Green: An Anthology of Essential Ecological Writing edited by Michael Allaby. Barrie and Jenkins, 250 pp., £14.95, October 1989, 0 7126 3489 4
Samuel Scheffler
Natural Reasons: Personality and Polity by S.L. Hurley. Oxford, 462 pp., £40, January 1990, 0 19 505615 9
H. Stuart Hughes
All or Nothing: The Axis and the Holocaust 1941-1943 by Jonathan Steinberg. Routledge, 320 pp., £20, June 1990, 0 415 04757 9
Victoria Brittain
Uganda’s New Men
Dinah Birch
Mrs Humphry Ward: Eminent Victorian, Pre-Eminent Edwardian by John Sutherland. Oxford, 432 pp., £16.99, August 1990, 0 19 818587 1
Peter Campbell
The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald. Collins, 168 pp., £12.95, August 1990, 0 00 223527 7
Jonathan Coe
Symposium by Muriel Spark. Constable, 192 pp., £11.95, September 1990, 0 09 469660 8 The Inn at the Edge of the World by Alice Thomas Ellis. Viking, 184 pp., £12.99, September 1990, 9780670832743
Julian Symons
Brief Lives by Anita Brookner. Cape, 217 pp., £12.95, August 1990, 0 224 02747 6 Deception by Philip Roth. Cape, 208 pp., £12.95, September 1990, 0 224 03000 0 Homeboy by Seth Morgan. Chatto, 390 pp., £12.95, August 1990, 0 7011 3664 2
Patrick Parrinder
My Son’s Story by Nadine Gordimer. Bloomsbury, 277 pp., £13.99, September 1990, 0 7475 0764 3 Age of Iron by J.M. Coetzee. Secker, 181 pp., £12.99, September 1990, 0 436 20012 0
John Lanchester
Love and Death on Long Island by Gilbert Adair. Heinemann, 138 pp., £10.95, July 1990, 9780434006229 Going wrong by Ruth Rendell. Hutchinson, 250 pp., £12.99, September 1990, 0 09 174300 1 The Burden of Proof by Scott Turow. Bloomsbury, 515 pp., £13.99, August 1990, 0 7475 0673 6 Crucible of Fools by M.S. Power. Hamish Hamilton, 165 pp., £12.99, August 1990, 0 241 13006 9
Michael Wood
My indecision is final by Jake Eberts and Terry Ilott. Faber, 678 pp., £17.50, June 1990, 0 571 14888 3
Gavin Millar
Citizen Welles: A Biography of Orson Welles by Frank Brady. Hodder, 655 pp., £18.95, January 1990, 0 340 51389 6 If this was happiness: A Biography of Rita Hayworth by Barbara Leaming. Weidenfeld, 312 pp., £14.95, September 1989, 0 297 79630 5 Norma Shearer by Gavin Lambert. Hodder, 381 pp., £17.95, August 1990, 0 340 52947 4 Ava’s Men: The Private Life of Ava Gardner by Jane Ellen Wayne. Robson, 268 pp., £14.95, November 1989, 0 86051 636 9 Goldwyn: A Biography by Scott Berg. Hamish Hamilton, 579 pp., £16.95, September 1989, 0 241 12832 3 The Genius of the System: Hollywood Film-Making in the Studio Era by Thomas Schatz. Simon and Schuster, 514 pp., £16.95, September 1989, 0 671 69708 0
Christopher Hitchens
Diary: Keywords
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