CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Alan Bell
• Brigid Brophy
• Marilyn Butler
• Paul Delany
• Gavin Ewart
• Michel Foucault
• Graham Hough
• Hide Ishiguro
• Frank Kermode
• Michael Morgan
• Onora O’Neill
• Richard Sennett
• Robert Taubman
• Robert Wohl
• Barbara Wootton
• Patrick Wormald
• J.Z. Young

Contents

• Michel Foucault and Richard Sennett
  Sexuality and Solitude

• Letters
  Grahame Lock, R.W. Johnson, Douglas Johnson, John Corner, Simon Edwards, Richard Webster, Hans Schmoller, Donald McFarlan, Richard Wightman Fox, Lorna Scott Fox

• Paul Delany

  • Feminine Beauty by Kenneth Clark
  • Of Women and their Elegance by Norman Mailer
  • Nude Photographs 1850-1980 edited by Constance Sullivan

• Gavin Ewart
  Two Poems

• Marilyn Butler

  • Jane Austen’s ‘Sir Charles Grandison’ edited by Brian Southam

• Hide Ishiguro

  • The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, translated by Edward Seidensticker

• Robert Taubman
  Malgudi Revisited

• Graham Hough

  • Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark
  • Burnt Water by Carlos Fuentes, translated by Margaret Peden
  • The Leaves on Grey by Desmond Hogan
  • Children of Lir by Desmond Hogan
  • Walking naked by Nina Bawden

• Frank Kermode writes about Granada Television’s version, broadcast on 15 April, of Ford Madox Ford’s ‘The Good Soldier’

• J.Z. Young

  • The Making of Mankind by Richard Leakey
  • Lucy: The Beginning of Humankind: The Dramatic Discovery Of Our Oldest Human Ancestor by Donald Johanson and Maitland Edey

• Brigid Brophy

  • Reckoning with the Beast by James Turner
  • The Social Life of Monkeys and Apes by S. Zuckerman

• Michael Morgan

  • The Forbidden Experiment by Roger Shattuck

• Onora O’Neill

  • The Philosophy of Teaching by John Passmore

• Patrick Wormald

  • The Enigma of Stonehenge by John Fowles and Barry Brukoff
  • British Cathedrals by Paul Johnson

• Barbara Wootton

  • British Government and its Discontents by Geoffrey Smith and Nelson Polsby

• Alan Bell

  • A Lonely Business: A Self-Portrait of James Pope-Hennessy edited by Peter Quennell

• Robert Wohl

  • August 1914 The Proud Tower by Barbara Tuchman