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Contents


  • Jonathan Steinberg
    This Modern Mafia

  • Letters

  • 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