Cover: François Hers

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Stephen Bann
• John Bayley
• Brian Bond
• Jon Elster
• Ian Hamilton
• Philip Horne
• John Lucas
• Lachlan Mackinnon
• John McManners
• Michael Mason
• Pat Rogers
• Richard Rorty
• M.A. Screech
• Paul Seabright
• A.J.P. Taylor

Contents

• Richard Rorty

  • The Legitimacy of the Modern Age by Hans Blumenberg, translated by Robert Wallace

• Letters
  Martin Dodsworth, David Twersky, Bjorne Nilsen, William Milne, Editor, ‘London Review of Books’

• Ian Hamilton

  • Ancient Evenings by Norman Mailer

• Paul Seabright

  • Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays 1972-1980 by Richard Rorty

• Jon Elster
  One Hundred Years of Marxist Social Science

• John McManners

  • The Oxford Book of Death edited by D.J. Enright
  • Idéologies et Mentalités by Michel Vovelle

• John Bayley

  • Dostoevsky and ‘The Idiot’: Author, Narrator and Reader by Robin Feuer Miller
  • Dostoevsky by John Jones
  • New Essays on Dostoyevsky edited by Malcolm Jones and Garth Terry
  • The Art of Dostoevsky: Deliriums and Nocturnes by Robert Louis Jackson

• Pat Rogers

  • The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol X: Companion and Vol XI: Index edited by Robert Latham
  • The Diary of John Evelyn edited by John Bowle
  • The Brave Courtier: Sir William Temple by Richard Faber

• M.A. Screech

  • Collected Works of Erasmus. Vol. V: The Correspondence of Erasmus edited by Peter Bietenholz, translated by R.A.B Mynors
  • Collected Works of Erasmus. Vol. XXXI: Adages Ii 1 to Iv 100 edited by R.A.B. Mynors, translated by Margaret Mann Phillips
  • Le Disciple de Pantagruel edited by Guy Demerson and Christiane Lauvergnat-Gagnière

• Stephen Bann

  • Worstward Ho by Samuel Beckett
  • That Voice by Robert Pinget, translated by Barbara Wright
  • King Solomon by Romain Gary, translated by Barbara Wright
  • A Year in Hartlebury, or The Election by Benjamin Disraeli and Sarah Disraeli
  • The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire by Doris Lessing

• John Lucas

  • Sherston’s Progress by Siegfried Sassoon
  • The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon by Rupert Hart-Davis
  • Siegfried Sassoon Diaries 1915-1918 edited by Rupert Hart-Davis

• Lachlan Mackinnon
  Poem: ‘Here’

• Michael Mason

  • Far Away and Long Ago by W.H. Hudson
  • W.H. Hudson: A Biography by Ruth Tomalin

• A.J.P. Taylor
  Diary

• Philip Horne

  • Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen Lane

• Brian Bond

  • Hidden Weapons: Allied Secret or Undercover Services in World War Two by Basil Collier
  • The Other Ultra: Codes, Ciphers and the Defeat of Japan by Ronald Lewin
  • The Puzzle Palace by James Bamford