Cover: Christopher Killip

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Peter Burke
• Seamus Deane
• Alan Hollinghurst
• G. Cabrera Infante
• Hans Keller
• David Lodge
• Charles Peake
• Nicholas Penny
• Anthony Powell
• Christopher Reid
• Mary Renault
• Emma Rothschild
• Salman Rushdie
• Frederick Seidel
• Stephen Spender
• Barbara Strang
• John Sutherland
• Bernard Williams

Contents

• G. Cabrera Infante
  Bites from the Bearded Crocodile

• Letters
  Peter Lamarque, Diana Griffiths, James Brockway, Clive Towse, Nicholas Brown

• Emma Rothschild

  • The Zero-Sum Society by Lester Thurow

• Anthony Powell

  • The Lyttelton – Hart-Davis Letters edited by Rupert Hart-Davis

• Stephen Spender
  Poem: ‘Auden’s Funeral’

• John Sutherland

  • Tit for Tat by Verity Bargate
  • Watching Me, Watching You by Fay Weldon
  • Maggie Muggins by Keith Waterhouse
  • Mr Lonely by Eric Morecambe

• Alan Hollinghurst

  • Creation by Gore Vidal

• Frederick Seidel
  Poem: ‘Empire’

• Mary Renault

  • The Search for Alexander by Robin Lane Fox
  • Alexander the Great by N.G.L. Hammond

• Christopher Reid

  • Translating Neruda: The Way to Macchu Picchu by John Felstiner
  • The Oxford Book of Verse in English Translation edited by Charles Tomlinson

• Salman Rushdie

  • Three Trapped Tigers by G. Cabrera Infante

• Bernard Williams

  • Nietzsche on Tragedy by M.S. Silk and J.P. Stern
  • Nietzsche: A Critical Life by Ronald Hayman
  • Nietzsche. Vol. 1: The Will to Power as Art by Martin Heidegger, translated by David Farrell Krell

• David Lodge
  A Catholic Novel

• Barbara Strang

  • Designs in Prose by Walter Nash

• Peter Burke

  • Time, Work and Culture in the Middle Ages by Jacques Le Goff, translated by Arthur Goldhammer

• Hans Keller
  Two Cup Finals

• Charles Peake

  • Annotations to ‘Finnegans Wake’ by Roland McHugh

• Nicholas Penny

  • The Study and Criticism of Italian Sculpture by John Pope-Hennessy

• Seamus Deane

  • Yeats, Ireland and Fascism by Elizabeth Cullingford