Cover: Man Ray

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Gabriele Annan
• John Bayley
• Brian Bond
• Graham Bradshaw
• Anita Brookner
• Alan Brownjohn
• Marilyn Butler
• Christopher Driver
• William Empson
• Ernest Gellner
• Jon Halliday
• Ian Hamilton
• Selima Hill
• Clive James
• Hugh Lloyd-Jones
• Tom Paulin
• Allon White

Contents

• John Bayley

  • Shadow Train by John Ashbery

• Letters
  Christopher Price, Gabriel Josipovici, Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Simon Schaffer, Edward Smithies, Arthur Freeman, Isabel Jacobs, Brian Martin, Robert Bernard Martin, David Ross, Liz Calder

• William Empson

  • Ulysses by Hugh Kenner
  • A Starchamber Quiry: A James Joyce Centennial Volume 1882-1982 edited by E.L. Epstein

• Marilyn Butler

  • The New Pelican Guide to English Literature. Vol. I: Medieval Literature Part One: Chaucer and the Alliterative Tradition, Vol. II: The Age of Shakespeare, Vol. III: From Donne to Marvell, Vol. IV: From Dryden to Johnson edited by Boris Ford
  • Medieval Writers and their Work: Middle English Literature and its Background by J.A. Burrow
  • Contemporary Writers Series: Saul Bellow, Joe Orton, John Fowles, Kurt Vonnegut, Seamus Heaney, Thomas Pynchon by Malcolm Bradbury, C.W.E. Bigsby, Peter Conradi, Jerome Klinkowitz and Blake Morrison

• Alan Brownjohn
  Poem: ‘A Statue of Innocence, or Geological Time in the Department’

• Selima Hill
  Poem: ‘A Voice in the Garden’

• Graham Bradshaw

  • Hamlet edited by Harold Jenkins
  • The Taming of the Shrew edited by Brian Morris
  • Richard III edited by Antony Hammond
  • Much Ado about Nothing edited by A.R. Humphreys

• Hugh Lloyd-Jones

  • Homer, Iliad XXIV by Colin Macleod

• Jon Halliday
  Fear and Loathing in Tirana

• Brian Bond

  • Alanbrooke by David Fraser

• Gabriele Annan

  • The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer

• Allon White

  • Oh what a paradise it seems by John Cheever
  • Collected Short Stories by John Cheever
  • So long a Letter by Mariama Bâ, translated by Modupé Bodé-Thomas
  • A joke goes a long way in the country by Alannah Hopkin

• Anita Brookner

  • The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing

• Christopher Driver

  • Simple French Food by Richard Olney
  • Living off nature by Judy Urquhart
  • The Food and Cooking of Russia by Lesley Chamberlain
  • Food, Wine and Friends by Robert Carrier
  • The Colour Book of Fast Food edited by Alison Kerr

• Ian Hamilton
  Diary

• Ernest Gellner

  • Cooking, Cuisine and Class: A Study in Comparative Sociology by Jack Goody

• Clive James
  Poem: ‘Godfrey in Paradise’

• Tom Paulin
  Poem: ‘Oxford v. Cambridge v. Birmingham etc’