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CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• James Atlas
• Nina Bawden
• John Bayley
• Charles Causley
• Donald Davie
• Rosemary Dinnage
• Denis Donoghue
• Denton Fox
• Lawrence Gowing
• Ian Hamilton
• D.A.N. Jones
• Frank Kermode
• Peter Medawar
• Caroline Moorehead
• Anthony Pagden
• J.I.M. Stewart
• John Sturrock
• George Walden

Contents

• Frank Kermode

  • Holy Scripture: Canon, Authority, Criticism by James Barr
  • Structuralist Interpretations of Biblical Myth by Edmund Leach and D. Alan Aycock

• Letters
  Christopher Ricks, Edward Mendelson, Editor, ‘London Review of Books’, Michael Horovitz, William Milne, Robert Dorsman, Will Sulkin, Gregory McNamee, Maxim Jakubowski, Editors, ‘London Review’

• Denton Fox

  • The New Testament in Scots translated by William Laughton Lorimer
  • Scotland and the Lowland Tongue edited by J. Derrick McClure

• Anthony Pagden

  • The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the 16th and 17th Centuries by Carlo Ginzburg, translated by John Tedeschi and Anne Tedeschi

• George Walden

  • Ernest Bevin: Foreign Secretary 1945-1951 by Alan Bullock

• Peter Medawar

  • Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler’s Ninth Symphony by Lewis Thomas

• Donald Davie

  • A World of Difference by Norman MacCaig

• John Bayley

  • Come aboard and sail away by John Fuller
  • Children in Exile by James Fenton
  • ‘The Memory of War’ and ‘Children in Exile’: Poems 1968-1983 by James Fenton
  • Some Contemporary Poets of Britain and Ireland: An Anthology edited by Michael Schmidt
  • Nights in the Iron Hotel by Michael Hofmann
  • The Irish Lights by Charles Johnston and Kyril Fitzlyon
  • Fifteen to Infinity by Ruth Fainlight
  • Donald Davie and the Responsibilities of Literature edited by George Dekker

• Lawrence Gowing
  Human Stuff

• John Sturrock

  • Course in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure, translated by Roy Harris
  • Semiotic Perspectives by Sandor Hervey

• Charles Causley
  Poem: ‘In the Pinnacles Desert’

• J.I.M. Stewart

  • Soor Hearts by Robert Alan Jamieson
  • The Life and Loves of a She-Devil by Fay Weldon
  • Cathedral by Raymond Carver
  • The Cannibal Galaxy by Cynthia Ozick
  • The Collected Works of Jane Bowles introduction by Truman Capote
  • Let it come down by Paul Bowles

• D.A.N. Jones

  • Ring of Truth by Vernon Scannell
  • The Tiger and the Rose: An Autobiography by Vernon Scannell
  • Man of War by John Masters
  • The Notebook of Gismondo Cavalletti by R.M. Lamming
  • The Rape of Shavi by Buchi Emecheta
  • Thomas Lyster: A Cambridge Novel by David Wurtzel
  • Don’t swing a cat by Eva Bolgar

• Caroline Moorehead

  • The Brotherhood: The Secret World of the Freemasons by Stephen Knight
  • The Calvi Affair: Death of a Banker by Larry Gurwin

• Denis Donoghue

  • Towards 2000 by Raymond Williams
  • Writing in Society by Raymond Williams
  • Radical Earnestness: English Social Theory 1880-1980 by Fred Inglis

• Ian Hamilton
  Three Poems

• Rosemary Dinnage
  Diary

• James Atlas

  • The Oxford Companion to American Literature by James Hart
  • The Modern American Novel by Malcolm Bradbury
  • The Literature of the United States by Marshall Walker
  • American Fictions 1940-1980: A Comprehensive History and Critical Valuation by Frederick Karl
  • Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism by John Updike

• Nina Bawden

  • At the Jazz Band Ball: A Memory of the 1950s by Philip Oakes