Cover: Chris Schwarz

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Carole Angier
• Julian Barnes
• Anne Barton
• Donald Davie
• Denis Donoghue
• Barbara Everett
• Julian Girdham
• Patricia Highsmith
• John Horgan
• Graham Hough
• Anatole Kaletsky
• Frank Kermode
• John Kerrigan
• Rosalind Mitchison
• Robert Morley
• Michael Neve
• Michael Rose
• Ken Smith

Contents

• Michael Neve

  • A Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sacks

• Letters
  William Hunt, Blair Worden, Barbara Wootton, John Bayley, Daniel Gruenberg, Baruch Rosen, Angus Macdonald, Brian Oxley, Christopher Ricks, Aidan Day, Joss Marsh

• Barbara Everett

  • The Odes of Keats by Helen Vendler

• Anatole Kaletsky

  • The World’s Money: International Banking from Bretton Woods to the Brink of Insolvency by Michael Moffitt
  • International Debt and the Stability of the World Economy by William Cline
  • Managing Global Debt by Richard Dale and Richard Mattione

• Donald Davie

  • The Lords of Limit: Essays on Literature and Ideas by Geoffrey Hill

• Denis Donoghue

  • Selected Essays by John Bayley
  • Collected Poems: 1941-1983 by Michael Hamburger
  • Poems: 1953-1983 by Anthony Thwaite

• Anne Barton

  • A New Mimesis: Shakespeare and the Representation of Reality by A.D. Nuttall

• John Kerrigan

  • Enderby’s Dark Lady, or No End to Enderby by Anthony Burgess
  • Shakespeare’s Sonnets: A Modern Edition edited by A.L. Rowse

• Frank Kermode

  • Tributes: Interpreters of our Cultural Tradition by E.H. Gombrich

• Graham Hough thinks about William Empson and his work

• Julian Barnes

  • The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain by Paul Theroux
  • Doctor Slaughter by Paul Theroux

• Michael Rose
  The Shinka

• John Horgan

  • Prince of Spies: Henri Le Caron by J.A. Cole

• Patricia Highsmith

  • ‘Somebody’s Husband, Somebody’s Son’: The Story of Peter Sutcliffe by Gordon Burn

• Julian Girdham
  Diary

• Carole Angier

  • Jean Rhys: Letters 1931-1966 edited by Francis Wyndham and Diana Melly

• Rosalind Mitchison

  • Nations and Nationalism by Ernest Gellner

• Robert Morley

  • Personal Mark by Alec McCowen
  • Feeling you’re behind: An Autobiography by Peter Nichols

• Ken Smith
  Poem: ‘Your Friend the Drifter’