Cover: Tom Miller

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Stephen Bann
• John Bayley
• Philip Booth
• Patrick Carnegy
• Seamus Deane
• Misha Donat
• John Dunn
• A.W.F. Edwards
• Martin Elliott
• Penelope Fitzgerald
• Penelope Gilliatt
• Michael Ignatieff
• D.A.N. Jones
• Hans Keller
• Blake Morrison
• Tom Shippey
• Nicholas Spice
• A.J.P. Taylor
• Hugo Williams

Contents

• John Bayley

  • The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry edited by Blake Morrison and Andrew Motion
  • The Rattle Bag edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes

• Letters
  Pedro Perez Sarduy, Peter Widdowson, D.H. Sexton, Editor, ‘London Review of Books’, Harold Brooks, Jeffrey Meyers

• Blake Morrison
  Poem: ‘The Grange Boy’

• Tom Shippey

  • Invasion of the Space Invaders: An Addict’s Guide to Battle Tactics, Big Scores and the Best, Machines by Martin Amis
  • Dicing with Dragons: An Introduction to Role-Playing Games by Ian Livingstone

• Penelope Gilliatt
  Chez Tati

• Seamus Deane

  • Selected Poems by John Montague
  • Ghosts at my Back by Tom Rawling
  • A Late Harvest by John Ward

• Hugo Williams
  Poem: ‘Some Girls by Hugo Williams’

• Stephen Bann

  • Queen of Stones by Emma Tennant
  • E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial by William Kotzwinkle, based on a screenplay by Melissa Mathison
  • Tales of Afghanistan by Amina Shah
  • The Masque of St Eadmundsburg by Humphrey Morrison
  • A Villa in France by J.I.M. Stewart
  • Collected Stories: Vol. III by Sean O’Faolain
  • Work Suspended and Other Stories by Evelyn Waugh

• Michael Ignatieff

  • Trade Unions in British Politics edited by Ben Pimlott
  • Trade Unions: The Logic of Collective Action by Colin Crouch
  • Work and Politics: The Division of Labour in Industry by Charles Sabel
  • Strikes and the Government, 1893-1981 by Eric Wigham
  • Governments and Trade Unions: The British Experience, 1964-1979 by Dennis Barnes
  • The Assembly Line by Robert Linhart, translated by Margaret Crosland

• A.W.F. Edwards

  • The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould

• D.A.N. Jones

  • On Going to Bed by Anthony Burgess
  • The End of the World News by Anthony Burgess
  • This Man and Music by Anthony Burgess

• Hans Keller

  • Stravinsky: Selected Correspondence, Vol. I edited by Robert Craft
  • Igor Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress by Paul Griffiths, Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft and Gabriel Josipovici

• Philip Booth

  • Stravinsky Seen and Heard by Hans Keller and Milein Cosman
  • Nadia Boulanger: A Life in Music by Léonie Rosenstiel

• Nicholas Spice

  • Richard Strauss: A Chronicle of the Early Years 1864-1898 by Willi Schuh, translated by Mary Whitall

• Misha Donat

  • Carl Maria von Weber: Writings on Music edited by John Warrack, translated by Martin Cooper

• Patrick Carnegy

  • Fair Ophelia: A Life of Harriet Smithson Berlioz by Peter Raby
  • Mazeppa: The Lives, Loves and Legends of Adah Isaacs Menken by Wolf Mankowitz

• A.J.P. Taylor
  Diary

• Penelope Fitzgerald

  • Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner edited by William Maxwell
  • The Portrait of a Tortoise by Gilbert White and Sylvia Townsend Warner
  • Sylvia Townsend Warner: Collected Poems edited by Claire Harman
  • Scenes of Childhood and Other Stories by Sylvia Townsend Warner

• John Dunn

  • The Myth of the Nation and the Vision of Revolution by J.L. Talmon

• Martin Elliott
  Having taken off my wheels