Cover: Mark Boxer

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Bayley
• Ralf Dahrendorf
• William Empson
• Wynne Godley
• Stuart Hampshire
• Seamus Heaney
• Michael Holroyd
• Ted Hughes
• Dan Jacobson
• Frank Kermode
• Karl Miller
• Rosalind Mitchison
• Randolph Quirk
• Emma Rothschild
• Francis Wyndham

Contents

• John Bayley

  • Darkness Visible by William Golding

• Letters
  Brigid Brophy, Ian Hamilton, T.G. Rosenthal, John Sutherland, Michael Holroyd

• Karl Miller

  • A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul

• William Empson

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream edited for the Arden Shakespeare series by Harold Brooks
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The Arden Shakespeare series editor Harold Brooks

• Ted Hughes
  Poem: ‘Night Arrival of Sea-Trout’

• Francis Wyndham on the magic of Heathcote Williams

• Frank Kermode

  • The Second Coming: Popular Millenarianism 1780-1850 by J.F.C. Harrison

• Stuart Hampshire

  • Beast and Man by Mary Midgley

• Ralf Dahrendorf
  Conservative Policy and the Universities

• Wynne Godley asks if Britain will have to withdraw from Europe

• Seamus Heaney
  Two Poems

• Emma Rothschild writes about a new French book on the economics of illness

  • L’Ordre Cannibale: Vie et Mort de la Médecine by Jacques Attali

• Rosalind Mitchison

  • Population Malthus by Patricia James

• Michael Holroyd

  • A Victorian Courtship: The Story of Beatrice Potter and Sidney Webb by Jeanne MacKenzie

• Dan Jacobson

  • The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, Vol I: September 1901 – May 1913 edited by James Boulton

• Randolph Quirk

  • Collins Dictionary of the English Language by P. Hanks, T.H. Long and L. Urdang