Cover: Thomas Beach

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Marguerite Alexander
• Richard Altick
• James Darke
• Mary Goldring
• Philip Horne
• Dan Jacobson
• Clive James
• John Kerrigan
• Stephen Knight
• Mary Lefkowitz
• David Lehmann
• Gavin Millar
• Rosalind Mitchison
• Leslie Norris
• Mark Ridley
• C.H. Sisson
• John Skorupski
• Anne Sofer
• Lester Thurow
• Mary Warnock

Contents

• Rosalind Mitchison

  • Family Forms in Historic Europe edited by Richard Wall
  • Servants in Husbandry in Early Modern England by Ann Kussmaul
  • The Subversive Family: An Alternative History of Love and Marriage by Ferdinand Mount

• Letters
  William Empson, Harriet Jump, Keith Hanley, Park Honan, Barbara Everett, Barbara Everett, George Watson, Anne Olivier Bell, Ellman Crasnow, John Rosselli, Tom Paulin, Grahame White, Colin Haycraft

• James Darke
  Poem: ‘Family Matter’

• Stephen Knight
  Poem: ‘Our Undersea World’

• Gavin Millar
  The Scandalous Charm of Luis Buñuel

• Clive James

  • Footlights! A Hundred Years of Cambridge Comedy by Robert Hewison

• John Kerrigan

  • Horn by Barry Tuckwell

• Mary Goldring

  • DeLorean: The Rise and Fall of a Dream-Maker by Ivan Fallon and James Srodes

• C.H. Sisson

  • Hensley Henson: A Study in the Friction between Church and State by Owen Chadwick

• David Lehmann
  Thanks be to God and to the Revolution

• Leslie Norris
  The Hawk’s Eye – Two Poems

• Lester Thurow

  • Macroeconomics by Wynne Godley and Francis Cripps

• John Skorupski

  • Marxism and Anthropology by Maurice Bloch
  • Death and the Regeneration of Life edited by Maurice Bloch and Jonathan Parry

• Mary Lefkowitz

  • The Family, Women and Death: Comparative Studies by Sally Humphreys
  • The Golden Lyre: The Themes of the Greek Lyric Poets by David Campbell

• Mary Warnock

  • Cohabitation without Marriage by Michael Freeman and Christina Lyon
  • A Prison of Expectations: The Family in Victorian Culture by Steven Mintz
  • What is to be done about the family? edited by Lynne Segal
  • ‘Autistic’ Children: New Hope for a Cure by N. Tinbergen and E.A. Tinbergen
  • Thicker than water? Adoption: Its Loyalties, Pitfalls and Joys by Alice Heim
  • The Artificial Family: A Consideration of Artificial Insemination by Donor by R. Snowden and G.D. Mitchell

• Richard Altick

  • The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin edited by George Allan Cate
  • Ruskin Today by Kenneth Clark
  • John Ruskin: Letters from the Continent 1858 edited by John Hayman

• Mark Ridley

  • Pluto’s Republic by Peter Medawar

• Dan Jacobson
  My Life

• Anne Sofer
  Diary

• Philip Horne

  • The Proprietor by Ann Schlee
  • Slouching towards Kalamazoo by Peter De Vries
  • Marcovaldo by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver
  • The Loser by George Konard, translated by Ivan Sanders

• Marguerite Alexander

  • A Journey in Ladakh by Andrew Harvey
  • All of us There by Polly Devlin
  • The Far Side of the Lough: Stories from an Irish Childhood by Polly Devlin and Ian Newsham