Vol. 13 No. 19 · 10 October 1991

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Pablo Picasso

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Vol. 13 No. 19 · 10 October 1991

Richard Wollheim

A Life of Picasso: Vol. I 1881-1906 by John Richardson and Marilyn McCulley. Cape, 548 pp., £25, September 1991, 0 224 03024 8

Letters

J.M.W. Scott, Nicolas Walter, Matthew Leigh, Phil Edwards, John Sutherland, Jenny Hinton, James MacGibbon, John Barrell, Fred Inglis

Phillip Knightley

Smear! Wilson and the Secret State by Stephen Dorrill and Robin Ramsay. Fourth Estate, 502 pp., £20, August 1991, 9781872180687

Karl Miller

Boss of Bosses. The Fall of the Godfather: The FBI and Paul Castellano by Joseph O’Brien and Andris Kurins. Simon and Schuster, 364 pp., £15.99, September 1991, 0 671 70815 5

Peter Riddell

Kennedy v. Khrushchev: The Crisis Years 1960-63 by Michael Beschloss. Faber, 816 pp., £18.50, August 1991, 0 571 16548 6
A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy by Thomas Reeves. Bloomsbury, 510 pp., £19.99, August 1991, 0 7475 1029 6

Christopher Hitchens

Tales from the Bunker

Alan Brownjohn

Sweden’s Turn for the Worse

Daniel Aaron

The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities by Richard Sennett. Faber, 266 pp., £17.50, June 1991, 0 571 16192 8

P.N. Furbank

Private Words: Letters and Diaries from the Second World War edited by Ronald Blythe. Viking, 310 pp., £16.99, September 1991, 0 670 83204 9

David Garland

Reconstructing the Criminal: Culture, Law and Policy in England, 1830-1914 by Martin Wiener. Cambridge, 391 pp., £30, February 1991, 9780521350457

Anne Summers

The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession by Catriona Blake. Women’s Press, 254 pp., £6.95, October 1990, 0 7043 4239 1
Women under the Knife: A History of Surgery by Ann Dally. Radius, 289 pp., £18.99, April 1991, 9780091745080
The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929 by Ornella Moscucci. Cambridge, 278 pp., £35, April 1991, 0 521 32741 5

Julian Symons

The Kindness of Women by J.G. Ballard. HarperCollins, 286 pp., £14.99, September 1991, 0 00 223771 7

Maggie York

Poem: ‘Unbegun’

Richard North

The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature by Malcolm Godden and Michael Lapidge. Cambridge, 298 pp., £30, June 1991, 0 521 37438 3

Claire Tomalin

G.H. Lewes: A Life by Rosemary Ashton. Oxford, 369 pp., £25, September 1991, 0 19 812827 4

C.K. Stead

Studies in the Ezra Pound by Donald Davie. Carcanet, 388 pp., £25, April 1991, 0 85635 850 9
Poems 1963-1983 by Michael Longley. Secker, 205 pp., £8, August 1991, 0 436 25676 2
Under the Circumstances by D.J. Enright. Oxford, 64 pp., £5.99, May 1991, 0 19 282834 7
In the Echoey Tunnel by Christopher Reid. Faber, 73 pp., £12.99, September 1991, 0 571 16252 5
A Cold Coming by Tony Harrison. Bloodaxe, 16 pp., £2.95, July 1991, 1 85224 186 1

Donald Davie

The Poems of Browning. Vol. I: 1826-1840 edited by John Woolford and Daniel Karlin. Longman, 797 pp., £60, April 1991, 0 582 48100 7
The Poems of Browning. Vol. II: 1841-1846 edited by John Woolford and Daniel Karlin . Longman, 581 pp., £50, April 1991, 9780582063990

Mary-Kay Wilmers

Diary: The Menopause

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