Vol. 18 No. 3 · 8 February 1996

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Vol. 18 No. 3 · 8 February 1996

Neal Ascherson

The Collected Works of John Reed  Modern Library, 937 pp., $20, February 1995, 0 679 60144 9

Letters

Mark Thompson, Attila Hoare, Misha Glenny, Sarah LeFanu, Timothy Garton Ash, Michael Barber, Keith Flett

Bill Manhire

Poem: ‘The Adventures of Hillary’

Michael Howard

A Genius for War: A Life of General George Patton by Carlo D’Este. HarperCollins, 977 pp., £25, November 1995, 0 00 215882 5

Paul Foot

In the Public Interest by Gerald James. Little, Brown, 339 pp., £18.99, December 1995, 0 316 87719 0

Donald Hall

Poem: ‘The Letter’

Marilyn Butler

Dirt and Deity: A Life of Robert Burns by Ian McIntyre. HarperCollins, 461 pp., £20, October 1995, 0 00 215964 3

Robert Crawford

The Poetry of Scotland: Gaelic, Scots and English 1380-1980 edited and introduced by Roderick Watson. Edinburgh, 752 pp., £19.95, May 1995, 0 7486 0607 6

Hilary Putnam

Mental Reality by Galen Strawson. MIT, 337 pp., £24.95, January 1995, 0 262 19352 3

Barbara Everett

Hard Romance

Wendy Doniger

Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life by Marjorie Garber. Hamish Hamilton, 608 pp., £25, January 1996, 9780241134481

James Davidson

The Marriage of Likeness: Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe by John Boswell. Fontana, 412 pp., £8.99, January 1996, 0 00 686326 4

Graham Coster

The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean by Paul Theroux. Hamish Hamilton, 523 pp., £17.50, November 1995, 0 241 13504 4

David Craig

Wainwright: The Biography by Hunter Davies. Joseph, 356 pp., £16.99, October 1995, 0 7181 3909 7

Gaby Wood

Last Orders by Graham Swift. Picador, 295 pp., £15.99, January 1996, 0 330 34559 1

Kwame Dawes

Diary: A Story of American Racism

Thomas Lynch

All Hallows Eve

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