Cover: Alfred Eisenstaedt

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Bayley
• Alan Bennett
• Peter Campbell
• Denis Donoghue
• D.W. Harding
• Dan Jacobson
• Danny Karlin
• Walter Kendrick
• Edmund Leach
• Rosalind Mitchison
• Christopher Norris
• Sean O’Faolain
• Leo Pliatzky
• Christopher Ricks
• Richard Rorty
• Michael Rose
• Paul Sieghart
• C.H. Sisson
• Knute Skinner
• Anne Sofer
• A.J.P. Taylor
• John Ziman

Contents

• Anne Sofer

  • The British General Election of 1983 by David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh
  • Militant by Michael Crick

• Letters
  R.W. Farrington, A.C. Graham, Michael Brock and Eleanor Brock, Stephen Koss, John Lucas, Donald Davie, Neil Berry, Alastair Morgan, David Lodge, Editor, ‘London Review of Books’, John Bayley

• Danny Karlin
  A Night at Greenham

• Richard Rorty

  • Realism and Reason: Philosophical Papers, Vol. III by Hilary Putnam

• Dan Jacobson

  • Inside Outsider: The Life and Times of Colin MacInnes by Tony Gould

• Denis Donoghue

  • Selected Letters of E.M. Forster: Vol. I: 1879-1920 edited by Mary Lago and P.N. Furbank

• D.W. Harding

  • The Root and the Flower by L.H. Myers

• Peter Campbell

  • Pitch Dark by Renata Adler

• Walter Kendrick

  • The Brothers Singer by Clive Sinclair
  • The Penitent by Isaac Bashevis Singer, translated by Joseph Singer

• Christopher Ricks

  • The Faber Book of Parodies edited by Simon Brett
  • Lilibet: An Account in Verse of the Early Years of the Queen until the Time of her Accession by Her Majesty

• Christopher Norris

  • Hermeneutics: Questions and Prospects edited by Gary Shapiro and Alan Sica
  • The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge by Jean-Francois Lyotard, translated by Geoff Bennington, Brian Massumi and Fredric Jameson
  • Literary Meaning: From Phenomenology to Deconstruction by William Ray
  • The Philosophy of the Novel: Lukacs, Marxism and the Dialectics of Form by J.M. Bernstein
  • Criticism and Objectivity by Raman Selden

• Alan Bennett
  Lost Jokes

• Edmund Leach

  • Nomads and the Outside World by A.M. Khazanov, translated by Julia Crookenden
  • The House of Si Abd Allah: The Oral History of a Moroccan Family edited by Henry Munson
  • Ruth Benedict: Patterns of a Life by Judith Modell

• John Ziman

  • A Science Policy for Britain by Tam Dalyell

• Leo Pliatzky

  • Government and the Governed by Douglas Wass

• Paul Sieghart

  • Two men were aquitted by Percy Hoskins

• John Bayley

  • Shakespearian Dimensions by G. Wilson Knight

• Sean O’Faolain
  Nora Barnacle: Pictor Ignotus

• Knute Skinner
  Poem: ‘The News’

• Rosalind Mitchison

  • An Old Man’s Diary by A.J.P. Taylor

• A.J.P. Taylor
  Diary

• C.H. Sisson

  • The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy. Vol. IV: 1909-1913 edited by Richard Little Purdy and Michael Millgate
  • The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper. Vol. IV: 1792-1799 edited by James King and Charles Ryskamp
  • The Land and Literature of England: A Historical Account by Robert M. Adams
  • The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy. Vol. II edited by Samuel Hynes

• Michael Rose

  • All Visitors Ashore by C.K. Stead
  • A Trick of the Light by Sebastian Faulks
  • Dividing Lines by Victor Sage