Cover: Christopher Killip

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Gabriele Annan
• Neal Ascherson
• John Bayley
• Marilyn Butler
• Peter Campbell
• Michael Church
• Susannah Clapp
• Ian Gilmour
• Douglas Johnson
• Iain McGilchrist
• Medbh McGuckian
• Mary Midgley
• Charles Osborne
• J.I.M. Stewart
• John Sutherland
• Bernard Williams
• Mary-Kay Wilmers
• Blair Worden

Contents

• Neal Ascherson

  • Citizen Ken by John Carvel

• Letters
  Donald Davie, Charles Martindale, Maurice Punch, Alan Ansen, D.A.N. Jones, Richard Mayne

• Iain McGilchrist

  • The AIDS Epidemic edited by Kevin Cahill
  • AIDS: Your Questions Answered by Richard Fisher
  • Fighting for Our Lives by Kit Mouat

• Medbh McGuckian
  Five Poems

• Marilyn Butler

  • Stanley and the Women by Kingsley Amis

• Susannah Clapp

  • A Portrait of Fryn: A Biography of F. Tennyson Jesse by Joanna Colenbrander

• Mary-Kay Wilmers

  • Kept Women: Mistresses in the Eighties by Edna Salamon

• Douglas Johnson

  • La Cérémonie des Adieux by Simone de Beauvoir
  • Simone de Beauvoir Today by Alice Schwarzer, translated by Marianne Howarth
  • Lettres au Castor et à Quelques Autres by Jean-Paul Sartre, edited by Simone de Beauvoir

• Mary Midgley

  • The Case for Animal Rights by Tom Regan
  • Rights, Killing and Suffering: Moral Vegetarianism and Applied Ethics by R.G. Frey

• Bernard Williams

  • Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit

• Ian Gilmour

  • Another Heart and Other Pulses: The Alternative to the Thatcher Society by Michael Foot

• Blair Worden

  • The Weaker Vessel: Woman’s Lot in 17th-Century England by Antonia Fraser
  • Family Life in the 17th Century: The Verneys of Claydon House by Miriam Slater

• J.I.M. Stewart

  • Hilaire Belloc by A.N. Wilson

• John Bayley

  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, translated by Henry Heim

• John Sutherland

  • The Place of Dead Roads by William Burroughs
  • Angels by Denis Johnson
  • Moll Cutpurse: Her True History by Ellen Galford

• Peter Campbell

  • English Journey by J.B. Priestley
  • English Journey, or The Road to Milton Keynes by Beryl Bainbridge
  • Crisis and Conservation: Conflict in the British Countryside by Charlie Pye-Smith and Chris Rose
  • Invisible Country: A Journey through Scotland by James Campbell
  • Literary Britain by Bill Brandt

• Charles Osborne
  Diary

• Gabriele Annan

  • Milady Vine: The Autobiography of Philippe de Rothschild edited by Joan Littlewood
  • I meant to marry him: A Personal Memoir by Jean MacGibbon

• Michael Church

  • Growing Up by Russell Baker
  • Scouse Mouse, or I never got over it: An Autobiography by George Melly
  • The Haunted Mind by Hallam Tennyson