Contents


  • Raymond Williams
    Cambridge English and Beyond

  • Letters

  • 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