Cover: Hiang Kee

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Angela Carter
• Ian Hamilton
• Graham Hough
• Michael Irwin
• David Marquand
• Karl Miller
• Rosalind Mitchison
• John Passmore
• V.S. Pritchett
• Christopher Reid
• Christopher Ricks
• Geoffrey Strickland
• Bernard Williams
• Theodore Zeldin

Contents

• David Marquand
  What’s wrong with Britain

• Letters
  Glyn Ford, George Watson, Patrick Parrinder, Ken Follett, Nicholas Jacobs, Matthew Hoffman

• John Passmore

  • Utopian Thought in the Western World by Frank Manuel

• Bernard Williams

  • Rubbish Theory by Michael Thompson

• Christopher Reid
  Poem: ‘A Disaffected Old Man’

• Theodore Zeldin

  • Recollections and Reflections of a Country Policeman by W.C. May
  • The Police in Society by Ben Whitaker

• Christopher Ricks

  • The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer

• Ian Hamilton

  • Breaking Ranks by Norman Podhoretz

• Graham Hough

  • Thomas Stearns Eliot, Poet by A.D. Moddy
  • Theory and Personality: the Significance of T.S. Eliot’s Criticism by Brian Lee

• V.S. Pritchett
  Rochet and Chimère

• Michael Irwin

  • Wrinkles by Charles Simmons
  • Devotion by Botho Strauss, translated by Sophie Wilkins
  • The Followed Man by Thomas Williams
  • Reverse Negative by André Jute

• Karl Miller
  Barbara Pym’s Hymn

• Angela Carter responds to Bertolucci’s movie, ‘La Luna’

• Geoffrey Strickland

  • Comparative Criticism: A Yearbook edited by E.S. Shaffer

• Rosalind Mitchison

  • A System of Social Science: Papers relating to Adam Smith by Andrew Skinner