Vol. 14 No. 13 · 9 July 1992

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Cover Artist

Srdja Djukanovic

Ian Gilmour

The Economic Legacy 1979-1992 edited by Jonathan Michie. Academic Press, 384 pp., £25, March 1992, 0 12 494060 9
The Godley Papers: Economic Problems and Policies in the 1980s and 90s by Wynne Godley. New Statesman and Society, £2
Full Employment in the 1990s by John Grieve Smith. Institute for Public Policy Research, 68 pp., £7.50, March 1992, 1 872452 48 5

Letters

Daniel C. Dennett, John Ellis, Clive Wilmer, Henry Jebb, G.A. Cohen, Peter Kennealy

Kathleen Burk

The Barlow Clowes Affair by Lawrence Lever. Macmillan, 278 pp., £17.50, February 1992, 0 333 51377 0
For whom the bell tolls: The Lesson of Lloyd’s of London by Jonathan Mantle. Sinclair-Stevenson, 358 pp., £18, June 1992, 1 85619 152 4
The City of London: Continuity and Change, 1850-1990 by Ranald Michie. Macmillan, 238 pp., £30, January 1992, 0 333 55025 0

Christopher Middleton

Poem: ‘Missing Frogs’

John Barrell

English Music by Peter Ackroyd. Hamish Hamilton, 400 pp., £14.99, May 1992, 0 241 12501 4

C.H. Sisson

Housman’s Poems by John Bayley. Oxford, 202 pp., £25, April 1992, 0 19 811763 9

John Bayley

‘Rain-Charm for the Duchy’ and other Laureate Poems by Ted Hughes. Faber, 64 pp., £12.99, June 1992, 0 571 16605 9

Donald Davie

Devolving English Literature by Robert Crawford. Oxford, 320 pp., £35, June 1992, 9780198112983
The Faber Book of 20th-Century Scottish Poetry edited by Douglas Dunn. Faber, 424 pp., £17.50, July 1992, 9780571154319

Jenny Diski

Diana: Her True Story by Andrew Morton. Michael O’Mara, 165 pp., £14.99, June 1992, 1 85479 191 5
Shared Lives by Lyndall Gordon. Bloomsbury, 285 pp., £16.99, April 1992, 0 7475 1164 0
Antonia White: Diaries 1958-1979 edited by Susan Chitty. Constable, 352 pp., £19.95, May 1992, 0 09 470660 3

Linda Colley

The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay by Bridget Hill. Oxford, 263 pp., £30, March 1992, 0 19 812978 5

Eric Hobsbawm

Goodbye Columbus

V.G. Kiernan

Salt and Civilisation by S.A.M. Adshead. Macmillan, 417 pp., £45, March 1992, 0 333 53759 9

Robert Tashman

The Wizard of Oz by Salman Rushdie. BFI, 69 pp., £5.95, May 1992, 0 85170 300 3

Patricia Beer

Poem: ‘E.T. phone home’

Amit Chaudhuri

After Silence by Jonathan Carroll. Macdonald, 240 pp., £14.99, June 1992, 0 356 20342 5
The Law of White Space by Giorgio Pressburger. Granta, 172 pp., £12.99, March 1992, 0 14 014221 5
Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree by Tariq Ali. Chatto, 240 pp., £14.99, May 1992, 0 7011 3944 7

R.W. Johnson

Cheered in the street, much as Charles or Di

Ronan Bennett

Diary: My Father

Dan Jacobson

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