Cover: Martine Franck

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Gabriele Annan
• T.J. Binyon
• Marilyn Butler
• Martin Green
• Graham Hough
• Michael Irwin
• Douglas Johnson
• D.A.N. Jones
• Hans Keller
• James Michie
• Rosalind Mitchison
• Tom Paulin
• Christopher Reid
• Christopher Ricks
• E.S. Shaffer
• J.P. Stern
• Keith Walker
• Barbara Wootton

Contents

• Rosalind Mitchison

  • The Territory of the Historian by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, translated by Sian Ben
  • Montaillou by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, translated by Barbara Bray
  • Carnival: a People’s Uprising in Romans, 1579-1580 by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, translated by Mary Feeney

• Christopher Ricks

  • Setting the World on Fire by Angus Wilson

• Letters
  Mick Gold, Tony Mason, Simon Raven, Claire Bruyère, William Margolis, Rosanne Musgrave

• Marilyn Butler

  • Louis MacNeice in the BBC by Barbara Coulton
  • Best Radio Plays of 1979

• Hans Keller
  Music on Radio and Television

• Barbara Wootton

  • Mrs Thatcher’s First Year by Hugh Stephenson
  • A House Divided by David Steel

• Graham Hough

  • History of Him by Geoffrey Grigson

• Tom Paulin
  Poem: ‘Presbyterian Study’

• J.P. Stern
  The Matljary Diary

• E.S. Shaffer

  • The Memoirs of Bridget Hitler edited by Michael Unger
  • The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. by George Steiner
  • Young Adolf by Beryl Bainbridge

• Martin Green
  Poem: ‘Heritage’

• James Michie
  Poem: ‘Frosty Poem’

• Keith Walker

  • A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson
  • Dictionary Johnson: Samuel Johnson’s Middle Years by James Clifford

• Michael Irwin

  • The Beekeepers by Peter Redgrove
  • F for Ferg by Ian Cochrane
  • Events Beyond the Heartlands by Robert Watson

• Gabriele Annan

  • The Duke of Deception: Memories of My Father by Geoffrey Wolff

• D.A.N. Jones

  • After My Fashion by John Cowper Powys
  • Weymouth Sands by John Cowper Powys
  • Recollections of the Powys Brothers edited by Belinda Humfrey
  • John Cowper Powys and David Jones: A Comparative Study by Jeremy Hooker
  • The Hollowed-Out Elder Stalk by Roland Mathias
  • John Cowper Powys and the Magical Quest by Morine Krissdottir

• Christopher Reid

  • Empty Words: Writings ‘73-’78 by John Cage

• T.J. Binyon

  • The Life of Aleksandr Blok: Vol. 1: ‘The Distant Thunder 1880-1908’ by Avril Pyman

• Douglas Johnson

  • Mesrine: the Life and Death of a Super-crook by Carey Schofield