CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Martin Amis
• Gabriele Annan
• Douglas Dunn
• P.N. Furbank
• Geoffrey Hawthorn
• Colin Legum
• Penelope Lively
• John Maynard Smith
• Rosalind Mitchison
• Blake Morrison
• Tom Paulin
• Peter Porter
• Pat Rogers
• Alan Sillitoe
• Isaac Bashevis Singer
• A.J.P. Taylor

Contents

• Martin Amis

  • The Dean’s December by Saul Bellow

• Letters
  Michael Howard, James Darke, Noël Annan, Robin Kinross, Richard Webster, Edmund Leach, Nicolas Walter, Sean O’Faolain, Wlodzimierz Brus, Prudence Crowther, Brian Southam

• Douglas Dunn
  Poem: ‘Birch Room’

• Peter Porter
  Poem: ‘The Cast of Campagnatico’

• John Maynard Smith

  • The Mammalian Radiations: An Analysis of Trends in Evolution, Adaptation and Behaviour by John Eisenberg

• P.N. Furbank

  • You, You and You: The People Out of Step with World War Two by Pete Grafton

• Alan Sillitoe
  Writing and Publishing

• Blake Morrison

  • Continuous by Tony Harrison
  • The Oresteia by Aeschylus, translated by Tony Harrison
  • US Martial by Tony Harrison
  • A Kumquat for John Keats by Tony Harrison

• Penelope Lively

  • The Parting of Ways: A Personal Account of the Thirties by Shiela Grant Duff
  • From Middle England: A Memory of the Thirties by Philip Oakes
  • Dwellers All in Time and Space: A Memory of the 1940s by Philip Oakes

• Colin Legum

  • The Ethiopian Revolution by Fred Halliday and Maxine Molyneux

• Geoffrey Hawthorn

  • Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage by Stanley Cavell

• Pat Rogers

  • A Model Childhood by Christa Wolf, translated by Ursule Molinaro and Hedwig Rappolt
  • The Safety Net by Heinrich Böll, translated by Leila Vennewitz
  • The Country of her Dreams by Janice Elliott
  • The Soul’s Gymansium and Other Stories by Harold Acton

• Gabriele Annan

  • Out of the Past by Alexandra Tolstoy

• Rosalind Mitchison

  • The Economic History of Britain since 1700. Vol. 1: 1700-1860 edited by Roderick Floud and Donald McCloskey
  • The Economic History of Britain since 1700. Vol. II: 1860 to the 1970s edited by Roderick Floud and Donald McCloskey

• Tom Paulin
  Paisley’s Progress

• A.J.P. Taylor
  Diary

• Lost in America – Part Two of a Memoir by Isaac Bashevis Singer