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Vol. 17 No. 20 · 19 October 1995
John Bayley
À la Pym: The Barbara Pym Cookery Book by Hilary Pym and Honor Wyatt. Prospect, 102 pp., £9.95, September 1995, 0 907325 61 0
Letters
Gerald Nicosia, Eva Tucker, Robin Holloway, Loraine Fletcher, Phil Edwards, K.A. Berg, Joan Anholt, James Fletcher, Sameera Hartsough, David Drew, Francis Macaulay, William Baker, Claude Rawson
John Sutherland
The Great NBA Disaster
Christopher Hitchens
Palimpsest: A Memoir by Gore Vidal. Deutsch, 432 pp., £17.99, October 1995, 0 233 98891 2
Michael Wood
Sabbath’s Theater by Philip Roth. Cape, 451 pp., £15.99, October 1995, 0 224 03814 1
Barbara Johnson
Post Scripts: The Writer’s Workshop by Vincent Kaufmann, translated by Deborah Treisman. Harvard, 199 pp., £31.95, June 1994, 0 674 69330 2 The Oxford Book of Letters edited by Frank Kermode and Anita Kermode. Oxford, 559 pp., £20, July 1995, 0 19 214188 0
Allen Curnow
Poem: ‘Pacific 1945-1995’
Susan Eilenberg
Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind by Patricia Meyer Spacks. Chicago, 290 pp., £19.99, January 1995, 0 226 76853 8
Jacqueline Rose
Christina Rossetti: A Literary Biography by Jan Marsh. Cape, 634 pp., £25, December 1994, 0 224 03585 1
Stephen Sedley
Overcoming Law by Richard Posner. Harvard, 597 pp., £29.95, March 1995, 0 674 64925 7
Peter Bradshaw
The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture by Jonathan Sawday. Routledge, 327 pp., £35, May 1995, 0 415 04444 8
James Davidson
Foucault’s Virginity: Ancient Erotic Fiction and the History of Sexuality by Simon Goldhill. Cambridge, 194 pp., £30, January 1995, 0 521 47372 1
Wendy Steiner
Gertrude Stein in Words and Pictures by Renate Stendhal. Thames and Hudson, 286 pp., £14.95, March 1995, 0 500 27832 6 ‘Favoured Strangers’: Gertrude Stein and Her Family by Linda Wagner-Martin. Rutgers, 346 pp., $34.95, August 1995, 0 8135 2169 6
Tony Tanner
Bret Harte: Selected Stories and Sketches by David Wyatt. Oxford, 332 pp., £5.99, February 1995, 9780192823540
A. Craig Copetas
Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825-1908 edited by Dean A. Sullivan. Nebraska, 312 pp., £44.50, May 1995, 0 8032 4237 9
Mark Elvin
Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860 by Richard Grove. Cambridge, 540 pp., £45, April 1995, 0 521 40385 5
Seamus Deane
Heathcliff and the Great Hunger: Studies in Irish Culture by Terry Eagleton. Verso, 355 pp., £18.95, May 1995, 1 85984 932 6
Amit Chaudhuri
Story: ‘The Man from Khurda District’
David Blackbourn
Reflections on a Life by Norbert Elias. Polity, 166 pp., £35, October 1994, 0 7456 1383 7 The Civilising Process by Norbert Elias. Blackwell, 558 pp., £50, March 1994, 0 631 19222 0
James Miller
Hannah Arendt/Martin Heidegger by Elzbieta Ettinger. Yale, 139 pp., £10.95, October 1995, 0 300 06407 1 Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954: Uncollected and Unpublished Works by Hannah Arendt, edited by Jerome Kohn. Harcourt Brace, 458 pp., $39.95, May 1994, 0 15 172817 8 Hannah Arendt: A Reinterpretation of Her Political Thought by Margaret Canovan. Cambridge, 298 pp., £12.95, September 1995, 0 521 47773 5 Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy edited by Carol Brightman. Secker, 412 pp., £25, July 1995, 0 436 20251 4 Hannah Arendt/Karl Jaspers: Correspondence, 1926-1969 edited by Lotte Kohler and Hans Saner, translated by Robert and Rita Kimber. Harcourt Brace, 821 pp., $49.95, November 1992, 0 15 107887 4
Ritchie Robertson
Georg Büchner: The Shattered Whole by John Reddick. Oxford, 395 pp., £40, February 1995, 0 19 815812 2 Complete Plays, ‘Lenz’ and Other Writings by Georg Büchner, translated by John Reddick. Penguin, 306 pp., £6.99, September 1993, 0 14 044586 2
Jane Campbell
Moo by Jane Smiley. Flamingo, 414 pp., £15.99, May 1995, 9780002252355
Maurice Riordan
Poem: ‘The Lettuce’
Gaby Wood
The Blue Suit by Richard Rayner. Picador, 216 pp., £9.99, July 1995, 0 330 33821 8 The Liar’s Club by Mary Karr. Picador, 317 pp., £14.99, October 1995, 0 330 33597 9
Duncan Campbell
The Autobiography of a Thief by Bruce Reynolds. Bantam, 320 pp., £15.99, April 1995, 0 593 03779 0
Jenny Diski
Diary: Pearl’s Question
Peter Wollen
Sex and Suits by Anne Hollander. Knopf, 212 pp., $25, September 1994, 0 679 43096 2
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