CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• William Boyd
• Marilyn Butler
• John Edwards
• D.A.N. Jones
• J.D.F. Jones
• Frank Kermode
• Keith Kyle
• Robert Morley
• Blake Morrison
• Batori K. Ngabwe
• Christopher Norris
• George Rudé
• Edward Said
• Stephen Spender
• Norman Stone
• Hugh Thomas
• Raymond Williams
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Raymond Williams
  Cambridge English and Beyond

• Letters
  François Recanati, John McDowell, Peter Dockwrey, James Hopkins, Christopher Norris, Paul Seabright

• Edward Said writes about a new literature of the Arab world

  • Aisha by Ahdaf Soueif

• William Boyd
  Memories of the Sausage Fly

• D.A.N. Jones

  • Africa dances by Geoffrey Gorer
  • Nigerian Kaleidoscope by Rex Niven
  • Stepping-Stones by Sylvia Leith-Ross, edited by Michael Crowder
  • Female and Male in West Africa edited by Christine Oppong
  • Memories of Our Recent Boom by Kole Omotoso

• J.D.F. Jones

  • Under the Skin by David Caute
  • The K-Factor by David Caute

• Blake Morrison
  Poem: ‘Noblesse Oblige’

• Keith Kyle

  • Tom Mboya: The Man Kenya Wanted to Forget by David Goldsworthy

• George Rudé

  • Studies in the Social and Economic History of the Witwatersrand 1886-1914. Vol. I: New Babylon, Vol. II:New Nineveh by Charles van Onselen

• Norman Stone

  • The Crisis of the Old Order in Russia: Gentry and Government by Roberta Thompson Manning
  • Mikhail Bakunin: A Study in the Psychology and Politics of Utopianism by Aileen Kelly

• Batori K. Ngabwe
  Poem: ‘Shakespeare and the Critics’

• Stephen Spender

  • Code Name ‘Mary’: Memoirs of an American Woman in the Austrian Underground by Muriel Gardiner

• Hugh Thomas

  • The Spanish Civil War by David Mitchell

• Marilyn Butler

  • William Wordsworth: The Borders of Vision by Jonathan Wordsworth
  • William Wordsworth: The Poetry of Grandeur and of Tenderness by David Pirie
  • Benjamin the Waggoner by William Wordsworth, edited by Paul Betz

• John Edwards

  • Many Voices: Bilingualism, Culture and Education by Jane Miller
  • Life with Two Languages: An Introduction to Bilingualism by François Grosjean
  • On Dialect: Social and Geographical Perspectives by Peter Trudgill

• Christopher Norris

  • Literary Theory: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton
  • Essays on Fiction 1971-82 by Frank Kermode
  • Deconstructive Criticism: An Advanced Introduction by Vincent Leitch
  • Readings and Writings: Semiotic Counter-Strategies by Peter Wollen
  • Knowing the Poor: A Case-Study in Textual Reality Construction by Bryan Green

• Michael Wood

  • O, How the wheel becomes it! by Anthony Powell
  • Brilliant Creatures by Clive James
  • Pomeroy by Gordon Williams

• Frank Kermode
  Diary

• Robert Morley

  • Downing Street in Perspective by Marcia Falkender