Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Mark Abley
• A.J. Ayer
• John Bayley
• Tam Dalyell
• Donald Davie
• G.R. Elton
• Lord Goodman
• Clive James
• Douglas Johnson
• D.A.N. Jones
• R.F. Leslie
• Arthur Marwick
• Christopher Ricks
• Richard Rorty
• Robert Taubman
• Patrick Wall
• George Woodcock
• Blair Worden

Contents

• Christopher Ricks

  • My Sister and Myself: The Diaries of J.R. Ackerley edited by Francis King

• Letters
  Paul Johnson, Jeff McMahan, J.M. Rogers, Carolyn White, Charles Martindale, Alistair Ricketts, Editors, ‘London Review’

• John Bayley

  • Shakespeare’s Division of Experience by Marilyn French

• Donald Davie

  • In Defence of the Imagination by Helen Gardner

• A.J. Ayer

  • Koestler by Iain Hamilton

• Patrick Wall

  • The Monkey Puzzle by John Gribbin and Jeremy Cherfas
  • Darwinism Defended: A Guide to the Evolution Controversies by Michael Ruse
  • The Aquatic Ape: A Theory of Human Evolution by Elaine Morgan
  • The Neck of the Giraffe, or Where Darwin went wrong by Francis Hitching

• Mark Abley
  Poem: ‘Lhasa, 1950’

• Richard Rorty

  • Philosophical Explanations by Robert Nozick

• Lord Goodman

  • Clinging to the Wreckage by John Mortimer

• Arthur Marwick

  • Battered Cherub by Joe Gormley

• Blair Worden

  • Philo-Semitism and the Readmission of the Jews to England 1603-1655 by David Katz

• G.R. Elton

  • The History of Parliament: The Commons 1558-1603 edited by P.W. Hasler

• R.F. Leslie

  • God’s Playground: A History of Poland, Vol 1., The Origins to 1745, Vol. 11, 1745 to the Present by Norman Davies

• Tam Dalyell
  A Falklands Polemic

• Robert Taubman

  • A Chain of Voices by André Brink
  • How German is it by Walter Abish
  • Before she met me by Julian Barnes
  • Providence by Anita Brookner
  • Getting it right by Elizabeth Jane Howard

• George Woodcock

  • Maps and Dreams by Hugh Brody

• Douglas Johnson

  • La Cérémonie des Adieux by Simone de Beauvoir
  • Mes Années Sartre by Georges Michel
  • Oeuvres Romanesques by Jean-Paul Sartre, edited by Michel Contat and Michel Rybalka

• Clive James
  Poem: ‘Diary’

• D.A.N. Jones

  • P.G. Wodehouse: A Literary Biography by Benny Green
  • Wodehouse on Wodehouse: Bring on the girls (with Guy Bolton), Performing Flea, Over Seventy
  • P.G. Wodehouse: An Illustrated Biography by Joseph Connolly
  • P.G. Wodehouse: A Centenary Celebration 1881-1981 edited by James Heineman and Donald Bensen
  • The World of P.G. Wodehouse by Herbert Warren Wind