Cover: Lucian Freud

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Benjamin Barber
• Louis Baum
• Anita Brookner
• Brigid Brophy
• Peter Campbell
• Bernard Crick
• Michael Dummett
• Penelope Fitzgerald
• Seamus Heaney
• Graham Hough
• Frank Kermode
• Salman Rushdie
• Jonathan Steinberg
• Robert Taubman

Contents

• Jonathan Steinberg
  This Modern Mafia

• Letters
  Boris Ford, W.W. Robson, Laurence Kitchin, Richard Proudfoot, Terence Hawkes, Christopher Norris, Terry Eagleton, Toril Moi, John Hartley, Margaret Atack, John Drakakis, Claude Rawson, Malcolm Deas, Michael Dummett, Editor, ‘London Review of Books’

• Benjamin Barber

  • The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power by Garry Wills

• Frank Kermode

  • Figures of Literary Discourse by Gérard Genette, translated by Alan Sheridan
  • Theories of the Symbol by Tzvetan Todorov, translated by Catherine Porter
  • The Breaking of the Vessels by Harold Bloom
  • The Institution of Criticism by Peter Hohendahl
  • Unspeakable Sentences: Narration and Representation in the Language of Fiction by Ann Banfield

• Robert Taubman

  • Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene

• Anita Brookner

  • The President’s Child by Fay Weldon
  • Silence among the Weapons by John Arden
  • The Facilitators, or Mister Hole-in-the-Day by Peter Redgrove
  • Pleasure City by Kamala Markandaya
  • Worldly Goods by Michael Korda
  • Dutch Shea Jr by John Gregory Dunne

• Penelope Fitzgerald

  • A Half of Two Lives: A Personal Memoir by Alison Waley

• Brigid Brophy

  • The State and the Visual Arts by Nicholas Pearson
  • The Politics of the Arts Council by Robert Hutchison

• Louis Baum writes about the book trade in Hungary

• Michael Dummett

  • Now you do know by John Downing

• Salman Rushdie
  Imaginary Homelands

• Peter Campbell

  • The Autobiography of George Grosz: A Small Yes and a Big No translated by Arnold Pomerans

• Seamus Heaney
  Poem: ‘The Birthplace’

• Graham Hough

  • Thomas Hardy: A Biography by Michael Millgate
  • The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy. Vol. III: 1902-1908 edited by Richard Purdy and Michael Millgate
  • The Neglected Hardy: Thomas Hardy’s Lesser Novels by Richard Taylor
  • Good Little Thomas Hardy by C.H. Salter
  • Thomas Hardy and Women: Sexual Ideology and Narrative Form by Penny Boumelha
  • Illustration and the Novels of Thomas Hardy by Arlene Jackson

• Frank Kermode
  Diary

• Bernard Crick
  Orwell and Biography