CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Bayley
• Peter Burke
• Angela Carter
• Sydney Checkland
• Elizabeth Cook
• Jon Elster
• Michael Hofmann
• Michael Irwin
• D.A.N. Jones
• Frank Kermode
• V.G. Kiernan
• Michael Mason
• Mary Midgley
• Blake Morrison
• Christopher Ricks
• J.M. Roberts
• Salman Rushdie
• J.P. Stern

Contents

• Salman Rushdie

  • Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa

• Letters
  Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Patrick Taylor, Gabriel Josipovici, C.J. Rawson, Donald Davie, Geoffrey Minish, Margot Heinemann, Charles Martindale, Andrew Graham-Yooll, Brian Mcllroy, Editor, ‘London Review of Books’

• Christopher Ricks

  • Dissentient Voice: Enlightenment and Christian Dissent by Donald Davie
  • These the Companions by Donald Davie

• Sydney Checkland

  • Accountancy and the British Economy 1840-1980: The Evolution of Ernst and Whinney by Edgar Jones

• Michael Mason

  • Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer by Anthony Hyman

• Jon Elster

  • Essays in Trespassing: Economics to Politics and Beyond by Albert Hirschman
  • Shifting Involvements by Albert Hirschman

• Michael Hofmann
  Poem: ‘Kleist in Paris’

• Angela Carter

  • The Beauties and Furies by Christina Stead

• D.A.N. Jones

  • Double Yoke by Buchi Emecheta
  • The Aerodrome by Rex Warner
  • A Very British Coup by Chris Mullin
  • An Ice Cream War by William Boyd
  • Tempting Fate by Michael Levey

• John Bayley

  • Pea Soup by Christopher Reid

• Elizabeth Cook

  • Poems by J.H. Prynne

• Blake Morrison

  • The Fortunate Traveller by Derek Walcott
  • Sun Poem by Edward Kamau Brathwaite
  • Collected Poems by Bernard Spencer, edited by Roger Bowen
  • Selected Poems by Odysseus Elytis
  • Poems from Oby by George MacBeth
  • The New Ewart: Poems 1980-1982 by Gavin Ewart
  • The Apple-Broadcast by Peter Redgrove

• Mary Midgley

  • Narcissus and Oedipus: The Children of Psychoanalysis by Victoria Hamilton
  • Archetype: A Natural History of the Self by Anthony Stevens
  • Freud on Femininity and Faith by Judith van Herik

• V.G. Kiernan writes about the Marx sisters

  • The Daughters of Karl Marx: Family Correspondence 1866-98 edited by Olga Meier, translated by Faith Evans

• Michael Irwin

  • Russian Journal by Andrea Lee

• J.P. Stern

  • Thomas Mann: The Making of an Artist 1875-1911 by Richard Winston

• Frank Kermode
  Diary

• J.M. Roberts

  • Choiseul. Vol. 1: Father and Son 1719-1754 by Rohan Butler

• Peter Burke

  • Le Roi-Machine: Spectacle et Politique au Temps de Louis XIV by Jean-Marie Apostolidès
  • Le Portrait du Roi by Louis Marin