Classic reviews

A Burnt-Out-Case, by Graham Greene (#238-1992 Dec p33)

A Guest of Honour, by Nadine Gordimer (#245-1993 Jul p33)

Ace in the Hole, by Billy Wilder (#243-1993 May p31)

Akhnaten, by Philip Glass (#273-1995 Nov p33)

Among the Believers, by VS Naipaul (#139-1984 Sep p31)

An Area of Darkness, by VS Naipaul (#180-1988 Feb p31)

Annette Peacock (#308-1998 Dec p33)

Arctic Dreams, by Barry Lopez (#252-1994 Feb p33)

Ariel Dorfman's life and work (#305-1998 Sep p33)

Aunt Julia & the Scriptwriter, Vargas Llosa (#141-1984 Nov p31)

Aurora Leigh, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (#171-1987 May p31)

Ballads of Sacco..., by Woody Guthrie (#289-1997 Apr p33)

Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, by Ayi Kwei Armah (#185-1988 Jul p31)

Bernelle, Agnes (#293-1997 Aug p33)

Big Science, by Laurie Anderson (#246-1993 Aug p33)

Black Like Me, by John Howard Griffin (#142-1984 Dec p31)

Bloody Chamber, The, by Angela Carter (#256-1994 Jun p33)

Bluebeard's Castle: Bartók (#304-1998 Aug p33)

Book of Laughter & Forgetting, by Kundera (#206-1990 Apr p31)

Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley (#132-1984 Feb p31)

Brazil, by Terry Gilliam (#254-1994 Apr p33)

Burger's Daughter, by Nadine Gordimer (#201-1989 Nov p31)

Burma Diary, by Jeanne Hallacy (#303-1998 Jul p33)

Burmese Days, by George Orwell (#186-1988 Aug p31)

Candide, by Voltaire (#216-1991 Feb p31)

Catcher in the Rye, by JD Salinger (#140-1984 Oct p31)

Central Station, by Walter Salles (#312-1999 May p32)

Chomsky Reader, The (#265-1995 Mar p33)

Christopher Unborn, by Carlos Fuentes (#244-1993 Jun p33)

City in History, The, by Lewis Mumford (#269-1995 Jul p33)

Clash, The (#229-1992 Mar p33)

Commonsense, by Tom Paine (#280-1996 Jun p33)

Conquest of New Spain, by Bernal Diaz (#168-1987 Feb p31)

Crusade for Justice, by Ida B Wells (#159-1986 May p31)

Death of Nature, by Carolyn Merchant (#283-1996 Sep p33)

Diary of Anne Frank (#134-1984 Apr p30)

Discipline and Punish, by Michel Foucault (#319-1999 Dec p33)

Emitai, by Ousmane Sembene (#276-1996 Feb p33)

Emperor, The, by Ryszard Kapuscinski (#199-1989 Sep p31)

Equality, by RH Tawney (#130-1983 Dec p31)

Equiano's Travels, by Olaudah Equiano (#181-1988 Mar p31)

Faces in the Water, by Janet Frame (#150-1985 Aug p31)

Fanshen, by William Hinton (#195-1989 May p31)

Fear Eats the Soul, by Rainer W Fassbinder (#291-1997 Jun p33)

Fire on the Mountain, by Anita Desai (#172-1987 Jun p31)

Forest People/Mountain People, by Colin Turnbull (#192-1989 Feb p31)

Freud's work (#247-1993 Sep p33)

Galás, Diamanda (#278-1996 Apr p33)

Gâthâsaptasatî, The (#295-1997 Oct p33)

Gödel, Escher, Bach, by DR Hofstadter (#266-1995 Apr p33)

Golden Notebook, The (#232-1992 Jun p33)

Good Soldier Svejk, by Jaroslav Hasek (#262-1994 Dec p33)

Grapes of Wrath, The, by John Ford (#237-1992 Nov p33)

Hand to Earth, by Andy Goldsworthy (#267-1995 May p33)

Harp and the Shadow, by Alejo Carpentier (#236-1992 Oct p33)

Hidden Persuaders, by Vance Packard (#177-1987 Nov p31)

High Horse Riderless, by LTC Rolt (#212-1990 Oct p31)

Hiroshima, by John Hersey (#270-1995 Aug p33)

Hope Against Hope, by Nadezhda Mandelstam (#317-1999 Oct p33)

Horses, by Patti Smith (#258-1994 Aug p33)

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, W Rodney (#175-1987 Sep p31)

Hyenas, by Djibril Diop Mambety (#306-1998 Oct p33)

I... Rigoberta Menchu (#310-1999 Mar p33)

Ice-Candy Man/Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa (#301-1998 May p33)

If This Is A Man/The Truce, by Primo Levi (#184-1988 Jun p31)

Innocent Anthropologist, by Nigel Barley (#203-1990 Jan p31)

Is anyone taking any notice? Don McCullin (#137-1984 Jul p31)

Island, by Aldous Huxley (#133-1984 Mar p31)

Janus: A Summing Up, by Arthur Koestler (#275-1996 Jan p33)

John Akomfrah's films (#300-1998 Apr p33)

Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy (#207-1990 May p31)

Jungle Novels of B Traven (#263-1995 Jan p33)

Kes, by Ken Loach (#260-1994 Oct p33)

Kraftwerk oeuvre (#314-1999 Jul p33)

La Condition Humaine, by André Malraux (#188-1988 Oct p31)

Lamas of the Western Heavens, by R Evariste Huc (#197-1989 Jul p31)

Let Me Speak! by Domitila Barrios de Chungara (#145-1985 Mar p31)

Letters: music by Sainkho Namchylak (#299-1998 Mar p33)

life & work of Antonio Gramsci (#242-1993 Apr p33)

life and work of Victor Jara (#250-1993 Dec p33)

Limits to Medicine, by Ivan Illich (#144-1985 Feb p31)

Linguistic Imperialism, by Robert Phillipson (#271-1995 Sep p33)

Lord of the Flies, by William Golding (#164-1986 Oct p31)

M*A*S*H, by Robert Altman (#231-1992 May p33)

Machine Stops, by EM Forster (#165-1986 Nov p31)

Madmen & Specialists, by Wole Soyinka (#136-1984 Jun p31)

Maids and Madams, by Jacklyn Cock (#224-1991 Oct p33)

Malay Archipelago, by AR Wallace (#183-1988 May p31)

Matewan, by John Sayles (#294-1997 Sep p33)

Max Havelaar, by Multatuli (#213-1990 Nov p31)

Mayhew's London, classic review (#156-1986 Feb p31)

Memories, dreams, reflections, by CG Jung (#182-1988 Apr p31)

Memory of Fire, by Eduardo Galeano (#228-1992 Feb p33)

Metropolis, by Fritz Lang (#248-1993 Oct p33)

Mi Venganza Personal, by Tomás Borge (#210-1990 Aug p31)

Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie (#253-1994 Mar p33)

Miguel Littin (#296-1997 Nov p33)

Mine Boy, by Peter Abrahams (#196-1989 Jun p51)

Missing, by Costa-Gavras (#274-1995 Dec p33)

Moby Dick, by Herman Melville (#255-1994 May p33)

Mother India, by Mehboob Khan (#316-1999 Sep p33)

Moving Heaven and Earth, by Lucy Goodison (#222-1991 Aug p31)

Mrs Beeton (#259-1994 Sep p33)

Mythologies, by Roland Barthes (#240-1993 Feb p33)

News from Nowhere, by William Morris (#198-1989 Aug p31)

Nick Cave's music evaluated (#321-2000 Mar p33)

Night Falls on Ardnamurchan (#249-1993 Nov p33)

Norma Rae, directed by Martin Ritt (#318-1999 Nov p33)

Notes of a Native Son, by James Baldwin (#173-1987 Jul p31)

Of Woman Born, by Adrienne Rich (#208-1990 Jun p31)

Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens (#204-1990 Feb p31)

On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill (#220-1991 Jun p31)

One Day,,, Ivan Denisovich, by Solzhenitsyn (#179-1988 Jan p31)

Orientalism, by Edward W Said (#297-1997 Dec p33)

Oroonoko, by Aphra Behn (#187-1988 Sep p31)

Out of Africa, by Karen Blixen (#146-1985 Apr p31)

Pablo Neruda (#288-1997 Mar p33)

Paul Robeson (#225-1991 Nov p33)

People of the Abyss, by Jack London (#190-1988 Dec p31)

Persuasion, by Jane Austen (#163-1986 Sep p31)

Petals of Blood, by Ngugi wa Thiong'o (#174-1987 Aug p31)

Pig Earth, by John Berger (#167-1987 Jan p31)

Poems 1913-1956, Bertolt Brecht (#302-1998 Jun p33)

Pornography & Silence, by Susan Griffin (#160-1986 Jun p31)

Pregnant Virgin, by Marion Woodman (#230-1992 Apr p33)

Price of Coal, The, by Barry Hines (#211-1990 Sep p31)

Prison Notebooks/ Letters, by Gramsci (#169-1987 Mar p31)

Question of Power, by Bessie Head (#166-1986 Dec p31)

Quiet American, The, by Graham Greene (#218-1991 Apr p31)

Rabelais and his world, by Mikhail Bakhtin (#311-1999 Apr p33)

Rai Rebels, by various artists (#235-1992 Sep p33)

Reds, by Warren Beatty (#241-1993 Mar p33)

Repossessing Ernestine, by Marsha Hunt (#307-1998 Nov p33)

Revolutionary Trilogy, by Victor Serge (#277-1996 Mar p33)

River Out of Eden, by Richard Dawkins (#282-1996 Aug p33)

Roots, by Alex Haley (#233-1992 Jul p33)

Ruskin Today, by Kenneth Clark (#219-1991 May p31)

Sacred Hope, by Agostinho Neto (#194-1989 Apr p31)

Safe by Todd Haynes (#286-1996 Dec p33)

Saint Joan, by Otto Preminger (#264-1995 Feb p33)

Saturday Nt & Sunday Morn... by Karel Reisz (#227-1992 Jan p35)

Seven-Tenths, by James Hamilton-Paterson (#292-1997 Jul p33)

Sister Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser (#178-1987 Dec p31)

Son of the Revolution, by Liang Heng (#209-1990 Jul p31)

Spanish Earth, The, by Joris Ivens (#281-1996 Jul p33)

Spartacus, by Lewis Grassic Gibbon (#284-1996 Oct p33)

Spartacus, by Stanley Kubrick (#223-1991 Sep p37)

Summerhill, by AS Neill (#135-1984 May p31)

Surpassing the Love of Men, by L Faderman (#279-1996 May p33)

Tell My Horse, by Zora Neale Hurston (#189-1988 Nov p31)

The Affluent Society, by JK Galbraith (#143-1985 Jan p31)

The Black Jacobins, by CLR James (#147-1985 May p31)

The Color Purple, by Alice Walker (#191-1989 Jan p31)

The Qur'an (#148-1985 Jun p31)

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (#138-1984 Aug p30)

The Uses of Literacy, by Richard Hoggart (#151-1985 Sep p31)

The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith (#153-1985 Nov p31)

The Women's Room, by Marilyn French (#152-1985 Oct p31)

The World Turned Upside Down, by C Hill (#313-1999 Jun p34)

Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe (#170-1987 Apr p31)

Three Guineas, by Virginia Woolf (#154-1985 Dec p31)

Time Machine, by HG Wells (#202-1989 Dec p31)

Trial, The, by Franz Kafka (#257-1994 Jul p25)

Turning Point, The, by Fritjof Capra (#205-1990 Mar p31)

Ulysses, by James Joyce (#214-1990 Dec p31)

Underdogs, by Mariano Azuela (#149-1985 Jul p31)

Venceremos! by Che Guevara (#131-1984 Jan p31)

Village Cycle Plays, by Garcia Lorca (#176-1987 Oct p31)

Volunteers, The, by Raymond Williams (#221-1991 Jul p31)

von Bingen, Hildegard (#272-1995 Oct p33)

Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Becket (#251-1994 Jan p33)

War with the Newts, by Karel Capek (#226-1991 Dec p33)

Weil, Simone (#217-1991 Mar p31)

What's Going On, by Marvin Gaye (#239-1993 Jan p33)

White Goddess, The, by Robert Graves (#315-1999 Aug p33)

William Blake's poetry assessed as classic (#161-1986 Jul p31)

Woman on the Edge of Time, by Marge Piercy (#268-1995 Jun p33)

Women of ideas, by Dale Spender (#290-1997 May p33)

Women Who Love Too Much, R Norwood (#234-1992 Aug p33)

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole (#155-1986 Jan p31)

Wretched of the Earth, by Frantz Fanon (#162-1986 Aug p31)

Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë (#158-1986 Apr p31)

Zami, by Audre Lorde (#285-1996 Nov p33)