CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Paul Addison
• Joan Aiken
• Gillian Avery
• Patricia Beer
• Alan Bell
• Alan Coren
• Judy Dunn
• Ruth Fainlight
• Gordon Haight
• Frank Kermode
• Derwent May
• Tom Nairn
• Richard Poirier
• Roy Porter
• Bob Scribner
• Barbara Strang
• John Sutherland
• Emma Tennant
• Nicholas Tucker
• Bernard Williams
• Hugo Williams
• Patrick Wormald

Contents

• Alan Coren

  • Thy Neighbour’s Wife by Gay Talese

• Bernard Williams

  • The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch
  • Nihilism and Culture by Johan Goudsblom

• Letters
  

• Paul Addison

  • Sir John Seeley and the Uses of History by Deborah Wormell

• Frank Kermode

  • Conrad in the 19th Century by Ian Watt

• Richard Poirier

  • Imagining America by Peter Conrad

• Bob Scribner

  • The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany by Michael Baxandall

• Patrick Wormald

  • The Vikings by James Graham-Campbell and D. Kidd
  • The Viking World edited by James Graham-Campbell
  • The Northern World edited by David Wilson
  • Vikings! by Magnus Magnusson
  • The Vikings by Johannes Bronsted
  • Viking Age Sculpture by Richard Bailey
  • The Viking Age in Denmark by Klaus Randsborg

• Ruth Fainlight
  Poem: ‘Lost Drawing’

• Hugo Williams
  Poem: ‘Sonny Jim in Love’

• Roy Porter

  • Arguments within English Marxism by Perry Anderson
  • Capitalism, State Formation and Marxist Theory edited by Philip Corrigan
  • Writing by Candlelight by E.P. Thompson

• Tom Nairn continues his examination of recent attempts to find in Gramsci’s writings a basis for left-wing opposition to Communism

• John Sutherland

  • Duffy as Dan Kavanagh
  • Moscow Gold by John Salisbury
  • The Middle Ground by Margaret Drabble
  • The Boy Who followed Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

• Gordon Haight
  Gordon Haight’s speech in Westminster Abbey on 21 June, when a memorial stone to George Eliot was unveiled

• Barbara Strang

  • The Language-Makers by Roy Harris
  • Beyond the Letter: A Philosophical Inquiry Into Ambiguity, Vagueness and Metaphor in Language by Israel Scheffler
  • Linguistic Perspectives on Literature edited by Marvin Ching, Michael Haley and Ronald Lunsford

• Patricia Beer

  • The Odd Women by George Gissing
  • The Beth Book by Sarah Grand

• Alan Bell

  • The Wanton Chase by Peter Quennell

• Judy Dunn

  • Babyshock edited by John Cobb
  • Infancy by Martin Richards
  • Childhood by Sheldon White and Barbara Notkin White

• Joan Aiken
  Orphans

• Derwent May
  Poem: ‘Today’

• Emma Tennant

  • ‘Clever Gretchen’ and Other Forgotten Folktales by Alison Luire

• Nicholas Tucker

  • The Lord of Greenwich by Juliet Dymoke
  • A Flight of Swans by Barbara Willard
  • Fanny and the Battle of Potter’s Piece by Penelope Lively
  • John Diamond by Leon Garfield
  • Friedrich by Hans Peter Richter
  • I was there by Hans Peter Richter
  • The Time of the Young Soldiers by Hans Peter Richter
  • The Runaway Train by Penelope Farmer

• Gillian Avery

  • Racism and Sexism in Children’s Books edited by Judith Stinton
  • Babies need books by Dorothy Butler