Cover: Judith Aronson

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Anita Brookner
• Marilyn Butler
• Peter Clarke
• Ted Hughes
• Douglas Johnson
• Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
• Alasdair MacIntyre
• Sean O’Faolain
• Anthony Powell
• Claude Rawson
• Christopher Ricks
• Salman Rushdie
• Robert Taubman
• Clive Wilmer

Contents

• Christopher Ricks
  In theory

• Letters
  Lydia Gerend, Nicolas Walter, Hans Keller, J. Bradshaw, Nicholas Jacobs, Peter Cramer, D.O. Morgan

• Ted Hughes
  Poem: ‘An October Salmon’

• Marilyn Butler

  • Ideas and the Novel by Mary McCarthy

• Peter Clarke

  • The Backbench Diaries of Richard Crossman edited by Janet Morgan

• Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

  • La Saga des Giscard by Pol Bruno

• Anita Brookner goes to see Abel Gance’s film ‘Napoleon’

• Douglas Johnson

  • The Long March of the French Left by R.W. Johnson
  • One-Dimensional Marxism by Simon Clarke and Terry Lovell
  • Communism and Philosophy by Maurice Cornforth
  • The Crisis of Marxism by Jack Lindsay
  • Class in English History 1680-850 by R.S. Neale

• Alasdair MacIntyre

  • Modern French Philosophy by Vincent Descombes, translated by Lorna Scott Fox

• Sean O’Faolain

  • William Faulkner: His Life and Work by David Minter

• Claude Rawson

  • Jefferson Davis gets his citizenship back by Robert Penn Warren
  • Being here: Poetry 1977-1980 by Robert Penn Warren
  • Ways of light: Poems 1972-1980 by Richard Eberhart

• Salman Rushdie
  The Prophet’s Hair

• Anthony Powell
  Brooke’s Benefit

• Robert Taubman

  • Cities of the Red Night by William Burroughs
  • The Tokyo-Montana Express by Richard Brautigan

• Clive Wilmer
  Poem: ‘After Pavese’