Vol. 16 No. 4 · 24 February 1994

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Vol. 16 No. 4 · 24 February 1994

Richard Rorty

Moral Prejudices: Essays on Ethics by Annette Baier. Harvard, 368 pp., £33.95, February 1994, 0 674 58715 4

Letters

Arthur Johnston, Edward Wilson, Hilary Putnam, John Sutherland, Susan Fellows, C.J. Bailey, James MacGibbon, Andy Wilson, Elaine Morgan, Henry Gee, Brian Vickers, Lalage Saunders, Gordon Bowker, Michael Wood

G.R. Searle

The Rise and Fall of Liberal Government in Victorian Britain by Jonathan Parry. Yale, 383 pp., £30, January 1994, 0 300 05779 2

James Lasdun

Poem: ‘Oxblood’

J.G.A. Pocock

The Great Melody: A Thematic Biography and Commented Anthology of Edmund Burke by Conor Cruise O’Brien. Minerva, 692 pp., £8.99, September 1993, 0 7493 9721 7

Basil Davidson

Unhappy Valley by Bruce Berman and John Lonsdale. James Currey, 224 pp., £45, April 1993, 0 85255 022 7
Mau Mau and Kenya: An Analysis of a Peasant Revolt by Wunyabari Maloba. Indiana, 228 pp., £32.50, January 1994, 0 253 33664 3

Misha Glenny

In Europe’s Name by Timothy Garton Ash. Cape, 680 pp., £25, October 1993, 0 224 02054 4

John Lloyd

The Fate of Marxism in Russia by Alexander Yakovlev, translated by Catherine Fitzpatrick. Yale, 250 pp., £19.95, October 1993, 0 300 05365 7
Politics and Society in Russia by Richard Sakwa. Routledge, 518 pp., £40, September 1993, 0 415 09540 9

Ross McKibbin

For the Sake of Argument by Christopher Hitchens. Verso, 353 pp., £19.95, May 1993, 0 86091 435 6

Penelope Fitzgerald

The Mountain of Immoderate Desires by Leslie Wilson. Weidenfeld, 374 pp., £15.99, February 1994, 0 297 81371 4

Nicholas Spice

Fima by Amos Oz. Chatto, 352 pp., £15.99, September 1993, 0 7011 4004 6

Tom Shippey

The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Malory by P.J.C. Field. Boydell and Brewer, 218 pp., £29.50, September 1993, 0 85991 385 6

Patrick Wormald

The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonisation and Cultural Change 950-1350 by Robert Bartlett. Allen Lane, 432 pp., £22.50, May 1993, 0 7139 9074 0

Patricia Beer

Two Poems

R.B. Dobson

The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1386-1421 edited by J.S. Roskell, Linda Clark and Carole Rawcliffe. Alan Sutton, 3500 pp., £275, February 1993, 9780862999438

P.N. Furbank

The Psychology of Social Class by Michael Argyle. Routledge, 305 pp., £13.99, December 1993, 0 415 07955 1

Frank Kermode

The Collected and Recollected Marc  Fourth Estate, 51 pp., £25, November 1993, 1 85702 164 9

Alan Bennett

‘The Stringalongs’

Jonathan Coe

The Kenneth Williams Diaries edited by Russell Davies. HarperCollins, 827 pp., £20, June 1993, 0 00 255023 7

Christopher Hitchens

Diary: The Salman Rushdie Acid Test

Robert Alter

A History of the Hebrew Language by Angel Sáenz-Badillos, translated by John Elwolde. Cambridge, 371 pp., £24.95, December 1993, 0 521 43157 3
Language in Time of Revolution by Benjamin Harshav. California, 234 pp., £19.95, September 1993, 0 520 07958 2

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