CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Angela Carter
• Donald Davie
• Russell Davies
• Malcolm Deas
• Michael Dummett
• Gavin Ewart
• Gerald Graff
• Ian Hamilton
• Günter Kunert
• Richard Mayne
• Edward Mendelson
• James Michie
• Christopher Middleton
• Karl Miller
• Michael Neve
• Christopher Reid
• Robert Taubman
• Lorna Tracy

Contents

• Donald Davie
  My Americas

• Letters
  Solly Zuckerman, Averil Lysaght, Graham Hough, Graham Martin, Norma Kitson

• Michael Dummett

  • Rules and Representations by Noam Chomsky

• Gerald Graff

  • The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction by Jonathan Culler

• Günter Kunert translated by Christopher Middleton
  Poem: ‘Zoo’

• Christopher Reid
  Poem: ‘Cambridgeport Christmas’

• Edward Mendelson

  • After the Wake: An Essay on the Contemporary Avant-Garde by Christopher Butler

• Russell Davies

  • Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917-1961 edited by Carlos Baker

• Gavin Ewart
  Three Poems

• Richard Mayne

  • David O. Selznick’s Hollywood by Ronald Haver
  • My Early life by Ronald Reagan and Richard Hubler
  • Naming Names by Victor Navasky

• Lorna Tracy

  • The Habit of Being: Letters by Flannery O’Connor edited by Sally Fitzgerald
  • The violent bear it away by Flannery O’Connor
  • A good man is hard to find by Flannery O’Connor

• James Michie
  Poem: ‘Observation’

• Christopher Reid

  • Some Americans: A Personal Record by Charles Tomlinson

• Michael Neve

  • The Opium-Eater: A Life of Thomas de Quincey by Grevel Lindop

• Karl Miller

  • In the Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prison by Jack Henry Abbott

• Malcolm Deas

  • Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number by Jacobo Timerman, translated by Toby Talbot

• Robert Taubman

  • July’s People by Nadine Gordimer
  • The Company of Women by Mary Gordon
  • Zuckerman Unbound by Philip Roth

• Ian Hamilton
  The Comic Strip

• Angela Carter
  Mise-en-Scène for a Parricide