Cover: Philip Sutton

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Neal Ascherson
• Peter Burke
• Marilyn Butler
• Stephen Fender
• Antonia Fraser
• Dan Gillon
• Geoffrey Hawthorn
• Tim Hilton
• Graham Hough
• Dan Jacobson
• Clive James
• Mary McCarthy
• Michael Vince

Contents

• Geoffrey Hawthorn
  Daughters, Dress Shirts, Spotted Dick

• Letters
  Ezekeil Emanuel, Charles Hope, Eric Homberger, Michael Sidnell, Simon Kunitz, A.D. Moody, Brigid Brophy, Blair Worden

• Mary McCarthy
  Ideas and the Novel: Henry James and some others

• Clive James

  • Critical Understanding by Wayne Booth

• Neal Ascherson

  • The Last Word: An Eye-Witness Account of the Thorpe Trial by Auberon Waugh

• Dan Gillon

  • The Question of Palestine by Edward Said

• Marilyn Butler

  • A Fantasy of Reason: The Life and Thought of William Godwin by Don Locke

• Antonia Fraser

  • The House of Stuart by Maurice Ashley

• Peter Burke

  • Rabelais by M.A. Screech

• Graham Hough

  • Old Soldiers by Paul Bailey
  • Nocturnes for the King of Naples by Edmund White
  • Solo Faces by James Salter
  • Sol by Mario Satz, translated by Helen Lane

• Stephen Fender

  • The London Yankees: Portraits of American Writers and Artists in England, 1894-1914 by Stanley Weintraub
  • The Americans: Fifty Letters from America on our Life and Times by Alistair Cooke

• Michael Vince
  Poem: ‘Sunday Lunch’

• Tim Hilton

  • John Ruskin and Rose La Touche: Her Unpublished Diaries of 1861 and 1867 edited by Van Akin Burd

• Dan Jacobson

  • The Diamond Underworld by Fred Kamil