Vol. 15 No. 11 · 10 June 1993

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Cover Artist

David King

Michael Wood

Genet by Edmund White. Chatto, 820 pp., £25, June 1993, 9780701133979

Letters

Peter Walker, Nicola Beauman, Pat Kane, John A. Davis, H.StJ.B. Armitage, David Townsend, Robin Nicholson, Linnett Nuttgens

Stephen Sedley

In the Highest Degree Odious: Detention without Trial in Wartime Britain by A.W.B. Simpson. Oxford, 453 pp., £35, December 1992, 0 19 825775 9

Colm Tóibín

Haughey: His Life and Unlucky Deeds by Bruce Arnold. HarperCollins, 299 pp., £17.50, May 1993, 0 00 255212 4

Stephen Smith

Nuclear Smuggling

Stanley Fish

Why Literary Criticism is like Virtue

Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Dearest Beloved: The Hawthornes and the Making of the Middle-Class Family by Walter Herbert. California, 351 pp., $28, April 1993, 0 520 07587 0

Michael Rogin

The Rites of Assent: Transformations in the Symbolic Construction of America by Sacvan Bercovitch. Routledge, 424 pp., £40, November 1992, 9780415900140
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America by Garry Wills. Simon and Schuster, 315 pp., £17.99, April 1993, 0 671 76956 1

David A. Bell

The Family Romance of the French Revolution by Lynn Hunt. Routledge, 220 pp., £19.99, September 1992, 0 415 08236 6

Eugen Weber

In Search of the Maquis: Rural Resistance in Southern France, 1942-1944 by H.R. Kedward. Oxford, 342 pp., £35, March 1993, 0 19 821931 8
Outwitting the Gestapo by Lucie Aubrac, translated by Konrad Bieber and Betsy Wing. Nebraska, 235 pp., $25, June 1993, 0 8032 1029 9

David Underdown

Going to the Wars: The Experience of the British Civil Wars 1638-1651 by Charles Carlton. Routledge, 428 pp., £25, October 1992, 0 415 03282 2

Jamie McKendrick

Poem: ‘Loss’

Conrad Russell

The Personal Rule of Charles I by Kevin Sharpe. Yale, 983 pp., £40, November 1992, 0 300 05688 5

Martin Jay

Notes to Liteature: Vols I-II by Theodor Adorno, edited by Rolf Tiedemann, translated by Shierry Weber. Columbia, 284 pp., $35, June 1992, 9780231069120

Stephen Mulhall

In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years by Karl Popper. Routledge, 245 pp., £25, September 1992, 0 415 08774 0

C.K. Stead

Remembering Babylon by David Malouf. Chatto, 200 pp., £14.99, May 1993, 0 7011 5883 2

Amit Chaudhuri

Diary: On Hindu Revivalism

Anthony Grafton

The Portrayal of Love: Botticelli’s ‘Primavera’ and Humanist Culture at the Time of Lorenzo the Magnificent by Charles Dempsey. Princeton, 173 pp., £35, December 1992, 0 691 03207 6

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