Cover: Charlotte Salomon

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Patricia Beer
• Brigid Brophy
• Denis Donoghue
• Barbara Everett
• Christopher Hill
• Michael Hofmann
• Clare Hollingworth
• Clive James
• Douglas Johnson
• Gabriel Josipovici
• Hans Keller
• David Lodge
• John Maynard Smith
• Keith Middlemas
• Valerie Pearl
• Hilary Putnam
• Salman Rushdie
• Robert Taubman
• John Ziman

Contents

• John Maynard Smith

  • The Extended Phenotype by Richard Dawkins

• Letters
  Roger Hartley, Ernest Tuveson, T. Theocharis, F. Hurdis-Jones, Salman Rushdie, Editor, ‘London Review of Books’

• Barbara Everett

  • Three for Water-Music by Donald Davie
  • The New Oxford Book of Christian Verse edited by Donald Davie

• Gabriel Josipovici

  • Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse by T. Carmi

• Clive James

  • Lady Diana Cooper by Philip Ziegler

• Hilary Putnam

  • Minds and Mechanisms: Philosophical Psychology and Computational Models by Margaret Boden

• John Ziman

  • The Nuclear Barons by Peter Pringle and James Spigelman

• Valerie Pearl

  • The Shell Guide to the History of London by W.R. Dalzell

• Christopher Hill

  • The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World: from the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests by G.E.M. de Ste Croix

• Keith Middlemas

  • The Polish August: What Happened in Poland by Neal Ascherson

• David Lodge
  A Polish Notebook – on the eve of martial law

• Patricia Beer
  Two Poems

• Brigid Brophy

  • The Handbook of Non-Sexist Writing for Writers, Editors and Speakers edited by Casey Miller and Kate Swift

• Denis Donoghue

  • The Collected Stories of Sean O’Faolain: Vols I and II

• Robert Taubman

  • Rabbit is Rich by John Updike
  • Charlotte: Life or Theatre? by Charlotte Salomon
  • Weights and Measures by Joseph Roth
  • November by Rolf Schneider

• Clare Hollingworth

  • At the Barricades: The Memoirs of a Rebel Journalist by Wilfred Burchett

• Douglas Johnson

  • Un Crime sous Giscard by Jesus Ynfante
  • Enquête sur les Affaires du Septennat by Jacques Derogy and Jean-Marie Pontaut

• Salman Rushdie

  • Saki: A Life of Hector Hugh Munro by A.J. Langguth

• Michael Hofmann
  Poem: ‘Eclogue’

• Hans Keller

  • The Tongs and the Bones: The Memoirs of Lord Harewood
  • Putting the Record Straight: The Autobiography of John Culshaw
  • Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Mastersinger: A Documented Study by Kenneth Whitton