Vol. 14 No. 4 · 27 February 1992

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Class War

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Vol. 14 No. 4 · 27 February 1992

Donald Davie

The Poetry of Survival: Post-War Poets of Central and Eastern Europe edited by Daniel Weissbort. Anvil, 384 pp., £19.95, January 1992, 0 85646 187 3

Letters

Avi Shlaim, John Stokes, Stephen Sedley, John Griffith, John Hyman, Liam Archer, Hilda Bernstein, Julian Symons, Leston Havens, Sarah Maguire

Iain Sinclair

Class War: A Decade of Disorder edited by Ian Bone, Alan Pullen and Tim Scargill. Verso, 113 pp., £7.95, November 1991, 0 86091 558 1

Nicolas Walter

Demanding the impossible: A History of Anarchism by Peter Marshall. HarperCollins, 783 pp., £25, January 1992, 0 00 217855 9
The Self-Build Book by Jon Broome and Brian Richardson. Green Books, 253 pp., £15, December 1991, 1 870098 23 4

Ross McKibbin

What is Labour to do?

Margaret Anne Doody

A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain by Daniel Defoe, edited by P.N. Furbank and W.R. Owens. Yale, 423 pp., £19.95, July 1991, 0 300 04980 3
James Thomson: A Life by James Sambrook. Oxford, 332 pp., £40, October 1991, 0 19 811788 4

Vicki Feaver

Two Poems

Patrick Parrinder

Indigo, or Mapping the Waters by Marina Warner. Chatto, 402 pp., £14.99, February 1992, 9780701135317
Shakespeare’s Caliban: A Cultural History by Alden Vaughan and Virginia Mason Vaughan. Cambridge, 290 pp., £35, January 1992, 0 521 40305 7

Tom Wilson

All in a Life by Garret FitzGerald. Macmillan, 674 pp., £25, October 1991, 0 333 47034 6

Geoffrey Hawthorn

Joseph Schumpeter: His Life and Work by Richard Swedberg. Polity, 293 pp., £35, November 1991, 0 7456 0792 6
Joseph Schumpeter: Scholar, Teacher and Politician by Eduard März. Yale, 204 pp., £22.50, November 1991, 0 300 03876 3

P.N. Furbank

A Woman, a Man and Two Kingdoms: The Story of Madame d’Epinay and the Abbé Galiani by Francis Steegmuller. Secker, 280 pp., £17.99, January 1992, 0 436 48978 3

Hilary Mantel

The Literary Companion to Sex: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry edited by Fiona Pitt-Kethley. Sinclair-Stevenson, 415 pp., £18, February 1992, 1 85619 127 3
The Love Quest: A Sexual Odyssey by Anne Cumming. Peter Owen, 200 pp., £15.50, November 1991, 9780720608359

Claire Harman

Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life by Jane Emery. Murray, 381 pp., £25, June 1991, 0 7195 4768 7

Caroline Humphrey

Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture by Chris Knight. Yale, 581 pp., £40, October 1991, 0 300 04911 0

Stephen Sackur

Kuwait Diary: In Kuwait

Graham Coster

Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession by Greil Marcus. Viking, 256 pp., £17.99, February 1992, 0 670 83846 2
Rythm Oil: A Journey through the Music of the American South by Stanley Booth. Cape, 254 pp., £16.99, October 1991, 0 224 02779 4

Paul Delany

Song of Love: The Letters of Rupert Brooke and Noel Olivier 1909-1915 edited by Pippa Harris. Bloomsbury, 302 pp., £17.99, November 1991, 0 7475 1048 2

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