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Every Time the Evidence Breaks Down

The Geography of the Imagination, by Guy Davenport

by Mark Hutchinson

Encounter, December 1989, pp. 46-54

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    2. Poem by Stuart Henson, p. 8
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    4. 1688 & All That by Jonathan Clark, pp. 14-17
    5. Poem by William Oxley, pp. 18-19
    6. Column by "M.", pp. 20-21
    7. Poem by Andrei Navrozov, p. 22
    8. Images of Others by Harold James, pp. 23-32
    9. Poem by Alan Brownjohn, p. 33
    10. The Disinvitation of Nolte by George Watson, pp. 34-35
    11. Paris Notebook by Jean-Francois Revel, p. 36
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      4. Elia Kazan by Michel Ciment
      5. The American City by Graham Clarke
      6. Southwards to Geneva by Mavis Coulson
      7. The Modern Social Conflict by Ralf Dahrendorf
      8. Dreamers of the Absolute by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
      9. Just Another Star? by Christopher Grayling and Christopher Langdon
      10. Integration or Disintegration? by Ray Honeyford
      11. The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740 by Michael McKeon
      12. Nor Any Drop to Drink by Marcus Mainwaring
      13. I Shall Live by Henry Orenstein
      14. Conservative Thinkers by Roger Scruton
      15. Klara by Hugh Thomas
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    20. Funding the Arts by Sheila Lawlor, pp. 61-64
    21. Authors, p. 65
    22. Brezhnev's Words by Fyodor Burlatsky, pp. 66-69
    23. Poem by James Kirkup, p. 70
    24. Images, Mirages, & the Media by Daniel J. Leab, pp. 71-75
    25. The Life of Journalism by Anthony Hartley, pp. 76-77
    26. Letters, pp. 78-80
    27. Life & Letters, pp. 81-82
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    4. The Moralistic Media by George Walden, pp. 13-17
    5. Poem by Dominic Fisher, p. 18
    6. Is There a Case for Terrorism? by Jillian Becker, pp. 19-23
    7. Poem by Edward Rogerson, p. 24
    8. Column by "M.", pp. 25-26
    9. Poem by Gordon Wharton, p. 27
    10. Poem by Matthew Mead, p. 28
    11. Poem by Elizabeth Jennings, pp. 28-29
    12. Burke's Great Melody by Conor Cruise O'Brien, pp. 30-36
    13. Poem by Carole Satyamurti, p. 37
    14. A Treacherous Quotation by D.A. Longley, pp. 38-40
    15. The Bald & the Hairy by Vladimir Voinovich, p. 41
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    17. Poem by J.F. Hendry, p. 43
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      3. Edward Lear in the Levant by Susan Hyman and Edward Lear
      4. Dickens: A Biography by Fred Kaplan
      5. We Dream of Honour by Richard J. Kelly and John Berryman
      6. The Essential Osbert Lancaster by Osbert Lancaster and Edward Lucie-Smith
      7. A Culture for Democracy by D.L. LeMahieu
      8. The Open Garden by Christopher Milne
      9. Understanding Modern Architecture by Patrick Nuttgens
      10. The Arts in a State by John Pick
      11. Oscar Wilde by Peter Raby
      12. The Natives Are Restless by Idries Shah
      13. Living in an Alibi Society by Nicholas A.H. Stacey
      14. Combating the Terrorists by H.H. Tucker
      15. Bobby Tulloch's Shetland by Bobby Tulloch
      16. Identifying Ivan by Willem A. Wagenaar
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    24. Poem by Anna Adams, p. 62
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    6. Poem by Jean Hanff Korelitz, p. 20
    7. Column by "M.", pp. 21-22
    8. Poem by Lucien Stryk, p. 23
    9. Poem by George Szirtes, p. 24
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      3. Collected Poems by George Barker
      4. Collected Poems by E.J. Scovell
      5. Collected Poems by Patricia Beer
      6. Selected Poems by Jack Clemo
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      8. Complete Poems by Martin Bell
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      14. Postcards Home by Christopher Wiseman
      15. Poaching Rights by Bernard O'Donoghue
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      5. Milena by Margarete Buber-Neumann
      6. Who Said What When by John Daintith
      7. Journey into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg and Paul Stevenson, ...
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      9. The Crisis of Our Time by David Burnett King
      10. Authenticity in Music by Raymond Leppard
      11. Chekhov: A Spirit Set Free by V.S. Pritchett
      12. Off the Rails by Lisa St Aubin de Teran
      13. The Shah's Last Ride by William Shawcross
      14. The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Vol. III: 1919-1924 by Andrew McNeillie and Virginia Woolf
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    23. Emblems & the TV Image-Merchants by Bernard Richards, pp. 65-67
    24. Poem by Carole Satyamurti, p. 68
    25. Elia Kazan by Christopher Cook, pp. 69-72
    26. Poem by Gavin Ewart, p. 73
    27. The Shakespeare Market by Malcolm Rutherford, p. 74
    28. Poem by C.B. McCully, p. 75
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    5. Poem by Gareth Calway, p. 24
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    7. Poem by Stuart Henson, p. 27
    8. Poem by Michael Hulse, pp. 28-29
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    10. Poem by Gerda Mayer, p. 38
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      5. Britannia's Daughters by Joanna Trollope
      6. The Weary Titan by Aaron L. Friedberg
      7. The Enchanted Glass by Tom Nairn
      8. Two Georges by David Sinclair
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      3. Deep Down by Laura Chester
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      5. Max Beerbohm and the Act of Writing by Lawrence Danson
      6. Essays by Divers Hands XLV by Richard Faber
      7. Letters to Olga by Vaclav Havel
      8. Twain's Heroes, Twain's Worlds by Andrew Jay Hoffman
      9. In the Deep South by Roy Kerridge
      10. Toscanini's Fumble and Other Tales of Clinical Neurology by Harold L. Klawans
      11. Sons of Heaven by Jerrold M. Packard
      12. Speak Silence by Idris Parry
      13. An Industrialist in the Treasury by Edwin N. Plowden
      14. The Road to Winchester by John Thorn
      15. The Company of Critics by Michael Walzer
    19. France in Africa by David Perry, pp. 62-63
    20. Authors, p. 64
    21. Berlin Notebook by Melvin J. Lasky, pp. 65-69
    22. Poem by Desmond Graham, p. 70
    23. The Age of Repentance by Chingiz Aitmatov, pp. 71-72
    24. Poem by Alan Brownjohn, p. 73
    25. Fat Plays or Thin? by Malcolm Rutherford, pp. 74-75
    26. A 19th-Century Thatcherite? by Anthony Hartley, pp. 76-77
    27. Letters, pp. 78-80
    28. Life & Letters, pp. 81-82
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    2. Cohabitant Kinds by Takamura Kotaro, p. 7
    3. The Background to "Make-up" by Akemi Horie, p. 8
    4. Make-up (a play) by Inoue Hisashi, pp. 9-18
    5. Homo Harmonicus & the Yenjoy Girls by Brian Moeran, pp. 19-23
    6. Poem by John Gurney, p. 24
    7. Visionary Gleams by Yasunari Takahashi, pp. 25-27
    8. Poem by John Burnside, p. 28
    9. Column by "M.", pp. 29-30
    10. Poem by David Galler, p. 31
    11. Poem by Graeme Wilson, pp. 32-33
    12. On Bertrand de Jouvenel by Irving Louis Horowitz, pp. 34-35
    13. In Search of the Inner City by Roy Kerridge, pp. 36-37
    14. Paris Notebook by Jean-Francois Revel, pp. 38-39
    15. Poem by Gareth Reeves, p. 40
    16. Mishima & the Green Snake by I.S. Gillespie, pp. 41-44
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      1. An Industrialist in the Treasury by Edwin N. Plowden
      2. Years of Recovery by Alec Cairncross
    18. The Indicating Eye by Anna Adams, pp. 49-53
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      2. A History of Parliament by Ronald Butt
      3. Willie: The Life of W. Somerset Maugham by Robert Calder
      4. Retreat Into the Mind by Ekbert Faas
      5. Fire Down Below by William Golding
      6. European Diary, 1977-1981 by Roy Jenkins
      7. Writing and the Holocaust by Berel Lang
      8. Flaubert: A Biography by Herbert R. Lottman
      9. Stephen Leacock by Gerald Lynch
      10. Parliament at Work by Oonagh McDonald
      11. Aspects of Verdi by George Whitney Martin
      12. Forbidden Land by Tom Stephenson
      13. Arthur Symons by Karl Beckson, John M. Munro, and Arthur Symons
      14. Cape Cod by Henry David Thoreau and Joseph J. Moldenhauer, ...
      15. Margaret of York: Duchess of Burgundy, 1446-1503 by Christine Weightman
      16. American Authors and the Literary Marketplace Since 1900 by James L.W. West III
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    22. Poem by Catherine Gill, p. 63
    23. Twenty Years On by Herbert Passin, pp. 64-67
    24. Africa's Man-Made Crisis by Leo Katzen, pp. 68-70
    25. Poem by John Mole, p. 71
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    28. Poem by G.S. Sharat Chandra, p. 75
    29. Kipling & Japan by Anthony Hartley, pp. 76-77
    30. Letters, pp. 78-79
    31. Authors, p. 80
    32. Life & Letters, pp. 81-82
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    2. Why Sail to Byzantium? by Nicholas True, pp. 9-14
    3. Poem by Patrick Hare, p. 15
    4. No New Heroes (story) by Felicity Carver, pp. 16-20
    5. Danube by Claudio Magris, pp. 21-25
    6. Poem by Tony Roberts, p. 26
    7. Column by "M.", pp. 27-28
    8. Poem by Bibhu Padhi, p. 29
    9. Poem by Vernon Scannell, pp. 30-31
    10. First Statesman of Interdependence? by Francois Duchene, pp. 32-40
    11. Poem by Laurence Lerner, p. 41
    12. The Ossetian Connection by Louis Rapoport, pp. 42-45
    13. Paris Notebook by Jean-Francois Revel, pp. 46-47
    14. A Biography by Gillian Tindall, p. 48
    15. Poem by Herbert Lomas, p. 49
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      3. Mary McCarthy: A Life by Carol W. Gelderman
      4. Many Masks by Brendan Gill
      5. Writing the Female Voice by Elizabeth C. Goldsmith
      6. Scribblers for Bread by George Greenfield
      7. Grace and Favour by Jane Lapotaire
      8. Felix Mendelssohn by Rudolf Elvers and Felix Mendelssohn
      9. Wisdom, Information, and Wonder by Mary Midgley
      10. James Mason by Sheridan Morley
      11. Blood on the Nash Ambassador by Eric Mottram
      12. The East End by Alan Palmer
      13. Imperialism and Juvenile Literature by Jeffrey Richards
      14. Give Them All My Love by Gillian Tindall
      15. Self-Consciousness by John Updike
    21. Illusion & Delusion by Denys Sutton, pp. 65-68
    22. Crossing the Bar by Anthony Hooper, pp. 69-72
    23. Saving Mr Rushdie? by Anthony Hartley, pp. 73-76
    24. Authors, p. 77
    25. Letters, pp. 78-79
    26. Life & Letters, pp. 80-82
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    2. Poem by Gareth Calway, p. 9
    3. Nothing Is What It Seems To Be (story) by Patricia Lesko, pp. 10-12
    4. Poem by Anna Adams, p. 13
    5. The English Language in India by Sarvepalli Gopal, pp. 14-19
    6. Poem by James Kirkup, p. 20
    7. States of Mind by Adam Zamoyski, pp. 21-25
    8. Poem by Peter Porter, pp. 26-27
    9. Column by "M.", pp. 28-29
    10. Poem by Geoffrey Holloway, p. 30
    11. Anatomy of the Republic by D.F. Shaughnessy, pp. 31-37
    12. Letter from Wales by David Rees, pp. 38-41
    13. Paris Notebook by Jean-Francois Revel, pp. 42-43
    14. Bagpipes, Sitars, & Mickey Mouse by Gerry Farrell, pp. 44-45
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      4. Carrington by Gretchen Gerzina
      5. Talking Blues by Roger Graef
      6. The Challenge of Europe by Michael Heseltine
      7. Biotechnology by John Hodgson
      8. Passionate Opinions by John Clellon Holmes
      9. Tales of a Man Called Father Knox by Ronnie Knox-Mawer
      10. The Inner Limits of Mankind by Ervin Laszlo
      11. The Modern American Novella by A. Robert Lee
      12. Parson's Mill by Timothy Lewontin
      13. Infotechnology by Jack Meadows
      14. Armour Against Fate by Michael Occleshaw
      15. Voices of the Revolution by Peter Vansittart
    20. On Total Control & Its Contradictions by Leszek Kolakowski, pp. 65-70
    21. Poem by John Cameron Burnside, p. 71
    22. Romans & Countrymen by Malcolm Rutherford, p. 72
    23. Poem by Robert Conquest, p. 73
    24. The Face at the Top of the Column by Anthony Hartley, pp. 74-75
    25. Authors, p. 76
    26. Letters, pp. 77-79
    27. Life & Letters, pp. 80-82
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    2. Poem by Julie Whitby, p. 8
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    4. Poem by Alistair Elliot, p. 13
    5. Is Teaching "Western Culture" Racist & Sexist? by Sidney Hook, pp. 14-19
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    7. Poem by John Greening, p. 21
    8. Column by "M.", pp. 22-24
    9. A Loose Wheel Spinning by T.D. Rogers, pp. 25-27
    10. Poem by Lawrence Dugan, p. 28
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      3. Comics: Ideology, Power and the Critics by Martin Barker
      4. Osbert: A Portrait of Osbert Lancaster by Richard Boston
      5. Lewis Namier by Linda Colley
      6. When I Was by Desmond Hawkins
      7. Lydia and Maynard by Polly Hill, Richard D. Keynes, and Lydia Lopokova, ...
      8. Architect of European Unity by Robert Marjolin
      9. Hume by Nicholas Phillipson
      10. Planned to Death by J. Douglas Porteous
      11. Nineteen Eighty-Four by Patrick Reilly
      12. Spy Shadow by Tim Sebastian
      13. Anarchism and Cultural Politics in Fin de Siecle France by Richard D. Sonn
      14. Congenial Spirits by Joanne Trautmann Banks and Virginia Woolf
    17. The Rose Garden & the East Wind by Michael Sutton, pp. 50-56
    18. Authors, p. 57
    19. Anthropology's Auto-da-Fe by Robin Fox, pp. 58-64
    20. Treasures of the Nation, Burdens of the People by Leo Aylen, pp. 65-69
    21. Poem by Simon Curtis, p. 70
    22. On Not Ending History by Anthony Hartley, pp. 71-72
    23. Poem by Phoebe Hesketh, p. 73
    24. Chest & Discipline by Malcolm Rutherford, pp. 74-75
    25. Letters, pp. 76-79
    26. Life & Letters, pp. 80-82
  9. [+]
    November 1989 Issue = 23 Articles
    1. The Sources of the New Right by Maurice Cowling, pp. 3-12
    2. Poem by B.Z. Niditch, pp. 13-15
    3. The Long March to the Market by W.A.C. Adie, pp. 16-25
    4. Poem by John Lancaster, p. 26
    5. Poem by Peter Porter, p. 27
    6. Column by "M.", pp. 28-29
    7. Poem by Bryn Gunnell, p. 30
    8. The Paradox of Truth-Telling by George Urban, pp. 31-33
    9. Paint Killers by Richard Middleton, p. 34
    10. Paris Notebook by Jean-Francois Revel, pp. 35-38
    11. [+]
      Colonel Isobe's Secret by Sydney Giffard, pp. 39-41 - 5 Reviews
      1. Language and Popular Culture in Japan by Brian Moeran
      2. Constructs for Understanding Japan by Yoshio Sugimoto and Ross E. Mouer
      3. The Enigma of Japanese Power by Karel van Wolferen
      4. Hirohito: Behind the Myth by Edward Behr
      5. The Dual Image of the Japanese Emperor by Kiyoko Takeda
    12. [+]
      The Elephant & the Chickens? by Roger Morgan, pp. 42-45 - 3 Reviews
      1. Germany's Self Destruction by Sebastian Haffner
      2. At the Creation of a New Germany by George Crews McGhee
      3. Germany, America, Europe by Wolfram F. Hanrieder
    13. [+]
      Islam on the Move? by P.J. Vatikiotis, pp. 46-52 - 5 Reviews
      1. Discovering Islam by Akbar S. Ahmed
      2. Islamic Fundamentalism by Hiro Dilip
      3. Crescent in a Red Sky by Amir Taheri
      4. The Long Shadow by Daniel Pipes
      5. The Anthropology of Justice by Lawrence Rosen
    14. [+]
      Testing Times by John Pinder, pp. 53-58 - 1 Review
      1. European Diary, 1977-1981 by Roy Jenkins
    15. [+]
      Books Encountered by R.M., p. 59 - 15 Reviews
      1. Palace of Varieties by Julian Critchley
      2. Don't You Know There's a War On? by Jonathan Croall
      3. The Greatest Treason by Richard Deacon
      4. Testimonies by Michael Hamburger
      5. Philip Larkin, the Marvell Press and Me by Jean Hartley
      6. After Thatcher by Paul Q. Hirst
      7. The Book of London by Michael Leapman
      8. The Dialogic Novels of Malcolm Bradbury and David Lodge by Robert A. Morace
      9. A Careless Widow, and Other Stories by V.S. Pritchett
      10. The Intelligence Game by James Rusbridger
      11. On the Look-out by C.H. Sisson
      12. London Before the Blitz by Richard Trench
      13. Journals, 1939-1977 by Keith Vaughan
      14. The Ultra Spy by F.W. Winterbotham
      15. The Rise and Fall of Fleet Street by Charles Wintour
    16. The Information Revolution by Leonard R. Sussman, pp. 60-64
    17. Poem by Rutger Kopland, p. 65
    18. From Yiddish to Yinglish by Leo Rosten, pp. 66-72
    19. Authors, p. 73
    20. Kitchen-Sink Nostalgia by Malcolm Rutherford, pp. 74-75
    21. New York Notes by Anthony Hartley, pp. 76-77
    22. Letters, pp. 78-79
    23. Life & Letters, pp. 80-82
  10. [+]
    December 1989 Issue = 25 Articles
    1. Aftermaths of Empire by Hugh Trevor-Roper and George Urban, pp. 3-15
    2. Poem by Richard Poole, p. 16
    3. His Will (story) by Val Warner, pp. 17-20
    4. Waiting for Culture on the South Bank by Brian Moeran, pp. 21-24
    5. Column by "M.", pp. 25-26
    6. Poem by Michael Hulse, p. 27
    7. Poem by D.J. Enright, pp. 27-29
    8. Visits to Mexico by Hugh Thomas, pp. 30-34
    9. Armchair Traveller by Roy Kerridge, pp. 35-39
    10. [+]
      Calling the Kettle Black by Michael Thorpe, pp. 40-43 - 2 Reviews
      1. Toward the Decolonization of African Literature by Onsucheka J. Chinweizu and Ihechukwu Madubuike, ...
      2. Thy Hand, Great Anarch! by Nirad C. Chaudhuri
    11. [+]
      Goodbye to Berlin by Geoffrey Heptonstall, pp. 44-45 - 1 Review
      1. Let's Face the Music by Benny Green
    12. [+]
      Every Time the Evidence Breaks Down by Mark Hutchinson, pp. 46-54 - 1 Review
      1. The Geography of the Imagination by Guy Davenport
    13. Poem by John Holloway, p. 55
    14. [+]
      Books Encountered by R.M., p. 56 - 14 Reviews
      1. The Failure of the State by Rodney Atkinson
      2. Not by Fact Alone by John Clive
      3. Paris on the Eve: 1900-1914 by Vincent Cronin
      4. The Making of The Independent by Michael Crozier
      5. The Tightrope Walker by Hermine Demoriane
      6. Yours Etc.: Letters to the Press by Graham Greene and Christopher Hawtree
      7. Keith Joseph by Morrison Halcrow
      8. Writers Revealed by Rosemary Hartill
      9. The Prince of Wales by Maxwell Hutchinson
      10. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
      11. The Nature of History by Arthur Marwick
      12. Portraits of the Past by Richard Muir
      13. Literature of Europe and America in the 1960s by Spencer Pearce and Don Piper
      14. Making an Impact by Harvey Thomas and Liz Gill
    15. The Kingdom of Kabul? by Anatol Lieven, pp. 57-60
    16. The Enraged Voices of Opposition by Julius Gould, pp. 61-66
    17. Ideological Noise by Paul Hollander, pp. 67-70
    18. A Suitable Case for Treatment? by I.S. Gillespie, pp. 71-72
    19. Poem by Frank Manley, p. 73
    20. Under the Aegean Sun by Melvin J. Lasky, pp. 74-75
    21. The play's the thing... by Malcolm Rutherford, p. 76
    22. Poem by Raymond Tong, p. 77
    23. Letters, p. 78
    24. Authors, p. 79
    25. Life & Letters, pp. 80-82
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Issues of the 1990s = 1 Year, 7 Issues, 215 Articles
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  Issues of 1990 = 7 Issues, 215 Articles