Cover: Mark Boxer

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Reyner Banham
• Alan Brien
• Peter Campbell
• Stefan Collini
• Noël Coward
• Frederick Crews
• Michael Davie
• Rosemary Dinnage
• Stuart Hampshire
• Graham Hough
• Ted Hughes
• Samuel Hynes
• Michael Irwin
• Clive James
• D.A.N. Jones
• John Lahr
• Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
• Edmund Leach
• Geoffrey Moorhouse
• Claude Rawson
• Mark Swenarton
• Raymond Williams
• Mary-Kay Wilmers

Contents

• The American literary critic Frederick Crews explains why he has rejected Freud

• Stuart Hampshire

  • Freud by Ronald Clark

• Letters
  Donald MacRae, Selma James, Paula Neuss, Peter Geach, J.P. Smith, Alan Andrews, Henry Bondi, Elizabeth Mackenzie

• Rosemary Dinnage

  • The Story of Ruth by Morton Schatzman

• Mary-Kay Wilmers

  • Paedophilia: The Radical Case by Tom O’Carroll

• D.A.N. Jones

  • My Life with Nye by Jennie Lee
  • Debts of Honour by Michael Foot

• Michael Davie

  • The Letters of Evelyn Waugh edited by Mark Amory

• Clive James
  Poem: ‘To Anthony Thwaite at Fifty’

• Raymond Williams

  • From Fringe to Flying Circus by Roger Wilmut

• Alan Brien

  • The Best of Alan Coren
  • Tissues for Men by Alan Coren

• Reyner Banham

  • Travels in Arabia Deserts by Charles Doughty

• Samuel Hynes

  • The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy. Vol. 2 edited by Richard Purdy and Michael Millgate

• Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

  • Promenades by Richard Cobb

• Stefan Collini

  • Lewis Namier and Zionism by Norman Rose
  • Personal Impressions by Isaiah Berlin

• Ted Hughes
  Poem: ‘Nymet’

• Claude Rawson

  • Overhead by God. Fiction and Prayer in Herbert, Milton, Dante and St John by A.D. Nuttall

• Graham Hough

  • The Girl in a Swing by Richard Adams

• Michael Irwin

  • Collected Short Stories by Kingsley Amis
  • World’s End by Paul Theroux
  • Packages by Richard Stern
  • Oxbridge Blues by Frederic Raphael
  • The Fat Man in History by Peter Carey

• John Lahr

  • Plays by Noël Coward

• Cynthia and Elise – an extract from Noël Coward’s unpublished play ‘Semi-Monde’

• Edmund Leach

  • Evans-Pritchard by Mary Douglas

• Peter Campbell

  • Edwin Lutyens by Mary Lutyens

• Mark Swenarton

  • The Work of Sir Gilbert Scott by David Cole
  • Lutyens Country Houses by Daniel O’Neill
  • A Revolution in London Housing: LCC Housing Architects and their Work 1893-1914 by Susan Beattic

• Geoffrey Moorhouse

  • Tracks by Robyn Davidson