Cover: Max Ernst

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• David Astor
• Reyner Banham
• John Bayley
• Alan Bennett
• Anita Brookner
• Brigid Brophy
• David Cannadine
• Paul Delany
• V.G. Kiernan
• B.C. Leale
• Jeff McMahan
• David Marquand
• Onora O’Neill
• Adrian Poole
• C.H. Sisson
• Xan Smiley
• A.J.P. Taylor

Contents

• Brigid Brophy

  • Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession by Janet Malcolm
  • Psychoanalytic Psychology of Normal Development by Anna Freud
  • Record of a Friendship: The Correspondence of Wilhelm Reich and A.S. Neill edited by Beverley Placzek

• Letters
  C.B. Goodhart, Geoffrey Hartman, Leon Wieseltier, Alex Callinicos, Charles Martindale, Gabriel Josipovici, Roger Jones

• John Bayley

  • Nightingale Fever: Russian Poets in Revolution by Ronald Hingley
  • Russian Writers and Soviet Society 1917-1978 by Ronald Hingley
  • The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union edited by Archie Brown
  • ‘Novy Mir’: A Case-Study in the Politics of Literature 1952-1958 by Edith Frankel

• Alan Bennett
  Instead of a Present

• Reyner Banham

  • From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe

• Anita Brookner

  • The Language of Clothes by Alison Lurie
  • The Thirties Family Knitting Book edited by Jane Waller
  • Chanel and Her World by Edmonde Charles-Roux
  • Dior in Vogue by Brigid Keenan
  • Creative Dressing by Kaori O’Connor
  • Doing it with style by Quentin Crisp

• Onora O’Neill
  Women and Failure

• David Astor
  Owners and Editors

• David Marquand
  After Hillhead

• Xan Smiley
  Poland and the West

• David Cannadine

  • 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
  • The Population History of England 1541-1871: A Reconstruction by E.A. Wrigley
  • The Decline of British Economic Power since 1870 by M.W. Kirby
  • The Coming of the Mass Market 1850-1914 by Hamish Fraser

• B.C. Leale
  Six Surreal Poems

• Adrian Poole

  • Blind Understanding by Stanley Middleton
  • Fifty Stories by Kay Boyle
  • Unsolicited Gift by Jacqueline Simms
  • Nellie without Hugo by Janet Hobhouse
  • Levitation: Five Fictions by Cynthia Ozick

• Paul Delany

  • Rider Haggard: The Great Storyteller by D.S. Higgins
  • She by H. Rider Haggard
  • The Best Short Stories of Rider Haggard edited by Peter Haining

• V.G. Kiernan

  • Death and the Enlightenment: Changing Attitudes to Death among Christians and Unbelievers in l8th-Century France by John McManners
  • Mirrors of Mortality: Studies in the Social History of Death edited by Joachim Waley

• A.J.P. Taylor
  Diary

• Jeff McMahan

  • Nuclear Illusion and Reality by Solly Zuckerman

• C.H. Sisson

  • Philosophy and Ideology in Hume’s Political Thought by David Miller