Vol. 16 No. 3 · 10 February 1994

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Vol. 16 No. 3 · 10 February 1994

Lorna Sage

Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World by Carol Brightman. Lime Tree, 714 pp., £20, July 1993, 0 413 45821 0

Letters

David Pascoe, Phyllis Franklin, Catharine Stimpson, Christopher Small, Phil Edwards, Neil Hornick, Alfred Burke, Andrew Rutherford

John Lloyd

Russia 2010 by Daniel Yergin and Thane Gustafson. Random House, 302 pp., $32, October 1993, 0 679 42995 6
What About the workers: Workers and the Transition to Capitalism in Russia by Simon Clarke. Verso, 248 pp., £34.95, September 1993, 0 86091 650 2
After the Soviet Union: From Empire to Nation edited by Timothy Colton and Robert Levgold. Norton, 208 pp., $24.95, November 1992, 0 393 03420 8

Paul Foot

Spider’s Web: Bush, Saddam, Thatcher and the Decade of Deceit by Alan Friedman. Faber, 455 pp., £17.50, November 1993, 0 571 17002 1
The Unlikely Spy by Paul Henderson. Bloomsbury, 294 pp., £16.99, September 1993, 0 7475 1597 2

Michael Hofmann

Three Poems

Jeremy Harding

Martyr’s Day: Chronicle of Small War by Michael Kelly. Macmillan, 354 pp., £16.99, October 1993, 0 333 60496 2
Battling for News: The Rise of the Woman Reporter by Anne Sebba. Hodder, 301 pp., £19.99, January 1994, 0 340 55599 8
Women’s Letters in Wartime edited by Eva Figes. Pandora, 304 pp., £20, October 1993, 0 04 440755 6
The War at Sixteen: Autobiography, Vol. II by Julien Green, translated by Euan Cameron. Marion Boyars, 207 pp., £19.95, November 1993, 0 7145 2969 9

Patrick O’Brian

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: The Life and Death of the Little Prince by Paul Webster. Macmillan, 276 pp., £17.99, September 1993, 0 333 54872 8

Adam Phillips

Being a Character: Psychoanalysis and Self-Experience by Christopher Bollas. Routledge, 294 pp., £14.99, April 1993, 0 415 08815 1
Psychoanalysis and the Future of Theory by Malcolm Bowie. Blackwell, 161 pp., £35, October 1993, 0 631 18925 4

Adam Mars-Jones

The Father by Sharon Olds. Secker, 88 pp., £6, February 1993, 0 436 33952 8
The Sign of Saturn by Sharon Olds. Secker, 92 pp., £8, March 1991, 0 436 20029 5

Janette Turner Hospital

The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx. Fourth Estate, 337 pp., £14.99, November 1993, 9781857022056

Andrew O’Hagan

The Dogs by Laura Thompson. Chatto, 254 pp., £9.99, January 1994, 0 7011 3872 6

Hugh Williams

Two Poems

Gabriele Annan

A Woman’s View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women 1930-60 by Jeanine Basinger. Chatto, 528 pp., £14.99, January 1994, 0 7011 6093 4

Hugo Williams

Three Poems

Michael Wood

The Age of Innocence directed by Martin Scorsese.
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, introduced by Peter Washington. Everyman, 308 pp., £9.99, September 1993, 1 85715 202 6

Lorna Scott Fox

Diary: Reviva Zapata!

John Sturrock

Charles Sanders Peirce by Joseph Brent. Indiana, 388 pp., £28.50, January 1993, 0 253 31267 1
The Esssential Peirce: Vol. I edited by Nathan Houser and Christian Koesel. Indiana, 399 pp., £17.99, November 1992, 0 253 20721 5

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