CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Julian Barnes
• Anne Barton
• John Bayley
• Marilyn Butler
• Gavin Ewart
• Stuart Hampshire
• Geoffrey Hawthorn
• D.A.N. Jones
• John Maynard Smith
• Mary Midgley
• David Pears
• Peter Redgrove
• Christopher Ricks
• Sheldon Rothblatt
• Paul Seabright
• Amartya Sen
• A.J.P. Taylor

Contents

• Christopher Ricks

  • Cyril Connolly: Journal and Memoir by David Pryce-Jones
  • J.B. Yeats: Letters to His Son W.B. Yeats and Others, 1869-1922 edited with a memoir by Joseph Hone

• Letters
  Laura (Riding) Jackson, Martin Seymour-Smith, Brigid Brophy, John Murray, Earl Miner

• Mary Midgley

  • Animal Thought by Stephen Walker
  • On the Evolution of Human Behaviour by Peter Reynolds
  • The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit by Melvin Konner
  • Sociobiology and the Human Dimension by Georg Breuer
  • Sociobiology and the Pre-Emption of Social Science by Alexander Rosenberg

• Geoffrey Hawthorn

  • The Fall of Natural Man: The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology by Anthony Pagden

• Sheldon Rothblatt

  • The History Men: The Historical Profession in England since the Renaissance by John Kenyon

• Gavin Ewart
  Poem: ‘An old person reflects on love’

• Peter Redgrove
  Poem: ‘City of Boys’

• John Maynard Smith

  • The Open Universe: An Argument for Indeterminism by Karl Popper, edited by W.W. Bartley

• David Pears

  • Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language: An Elementary Exposition by Saul Kripke

• Stuart Hampshire

  • A History of the Modern World: From 1917 to the 1980s by Paul Johnson

• Marilyn Butler

  • English Literature in History: 1730-80: An Equal, Wide Survey edited by Raymond Williams, by John Barrell
  • English Literature in History: 1350-1400: Medieval Readers and Writers edited by Raymond Williams, by Janet Coleman
  • English Literature in History: 1780-1830: Pastoral and Politics edited by Raymond Williams, by Roger Sales
  • The Cambridge Guide to English Literature by Michael Stapleton

• Paul Seabright

  • Utilitarianism and Beyond edited by Amartya Sen and Bernard Williams

• Amartya Sen

  • Palanpur: The Economy of an Indian Village by C.J. Bliss and N.H. Stern

• Anne Barton

  • Homosexuality in Renaissance England by Alan Bray
  • Comic Women, Tragic Men: A Study of Gender and Genre in Shakespeare by Linda Bamber
  • Still Harping on Daughters: Women and Drama in the Age of Shakespeare by Lisa Jardine

• Julian Barnes
  Flaubert’s Parrot

• A.J.P. Taylor
  Diary

• D.A.N. Jones

  • Dangerous Pursuits by Nicholas Salaman
  • Monimbo by Robert Moss
  • The Last Supper by Charles McCarry
  • Heartburn by Nora Ephron
  • August 1988 by David Fraser
  • The Cure by Peter Kocan

• John Bayley

  • Collected Poems 1970-1983 by Donald Davie