Vol. 6 No. 11 · 21 June 1984

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Cover Artist

Chris Schwarz

Michael Neve

A Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sacks. Duckworth, 168 pp., £8.95, May 1984, 0 7156 1027 9

Letters

William Hunt, Blair Worden, Barbara Wootton, John Bayley, Daniel Gruenberg, Baruch Rosen, Angus Macdonald, Brian Oxley, Christopher Ricks, Aidan Day, Joss Marsh

Barbara Everett

The Odes of Keats by Helen Vendler. Harvard, 330 pp., £15.70, February 1984, 0 674 63075 0

Anatole Kaletsky

The World’s Money: International Banking from Bretton Woods to the Brink of Insolvency by Michael Moffitt. Joseph, 284 pp., £9.95, February 1984, 0 7181 2414 6
International Debt and the Stability of the World Economy by William Cline. MIT, 134 pp., £5.10, September 1983, 0 262 53048 1
Managing Global Debt by Richard Dale and Richard Mattione. Brookings, 50 pp., October 1983, 0 8157 1717 2

Donald Davie

The Lords of Limit: Essays on Literature and Ideas by Geoffrey Hill. Deutsch, 203 pp., £12.95, May 1984, 0 233 97581 0

Denis Donoghue

Selected Essays by John Bayley. Cambridge, 217 pp., £19.50, March 1984, 0 521 25828 6
Collected Poems: 1941-1983 by Michael Hamburger. Carcanet, 383 pp., £12.95, March 1984, 9780856354977
Poems: 1953-1983 by Anthony Thwaite. Secker, 201 pp., £8.95, April 1984, 0 436 52151 2

Anne Barton

A New Mimesis: Shakespeare and the Representation of Reality by A.D. Nuttall. Methuen, 209 pp., £12.95, September 1983, 0 416 31780 4

John Kerrigan

Enderby’s Dark Lady, or No End to Enderby by Anthony Burgess. Hutchinson, 160 pp., £7.95, March 1984, 0 09 156050 0
Shakespeare’s Sonnets: A Modern Edition edited by A.L. Rowse. Macmillan, 311 pp., £20, March 1984, 0 333 36386 8

Frank Kermode

Tributes: Interpreters of our Cultural Tradition by E.H. Gombrich. Phaidon, 270 pp., £17.50, April 1984, 0 7148 2338 4

Graham Hough

Graham Hough thinks about William Empson and his work

Julian Barnes

The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain by Paul Theroux. Hamish Hamilton, 303 pp., £9.95, October 1983, 0 241 11086 6
Doctor Slaughter by Paul Theroux. Hamish Hamilton, 137 pp., £6.95, June 1984, 0 241 11255 9

Michael Rose

Story: ‘The Shinka’

John Horgan

Prince of Spies: Henri Le Caron by J.A. Cole. Faber, 221 pp., £8.95, April 1984, 0 571 13233 2

Patricia Highsmith

‘Somebody’s Husband, Somebody’s Son’: The Story of Peter Sutcliffe by Gordon Burn. Heinemann, 272 pp., £9.95, May 1984, 0 434 09827 2

Julian Girdham

Diary: Mansergh v. Arnold

Carole Angier

Jean Rhys: Letters 1931-1966 edited by Francis Wyndham and Diana Melly. Deutsch, 336 pp., £9.95, May 1984, 0 223 97567 2

Robert Morley

Personal Mark by Alec McCowen. Hamish Hamilton, 236 pp., £7.95, May 1984, 9780241112632
Feeling you’re behind: An Autobiography by Peter Nichols. Weidenfeld, 242 pp., £10.95, May 1984, 0 297 78392 0

Ken Smith

Poem: ‘Your Friend the Drifter’

Rosalind Mitchison

Nations and Nationalism by Ernest Gellner. Blackwell, 150 pp., £12.50, July 1983, 0 631 12992 8

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