CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Fleur Adcock
• John Bayley
• Michael Davie
• Richard Eyre
• A.D. Hope
• Colin McGinn
• Christopher Norris
• John Passmore
• Nicholas Penny
• Brian Pippard
• Peter Porter
• Peter Pulzer
• Nicholas Spice
• C.K. Stead
• E.P. Thompson
• E.S. Turner
• John Ziman

Contents

• E.S. Turner

  • Monty: The Field-Marshal 1944-1976 by Nigel Hamilton

• Letters
  Paul Mercer, R.W. Johnson, Barbara Simon, Frank Kermode, Craig Raine, Joseph Pequigney, Neville Smith, A.J. Ayer, Richard Bowring, Editor, ‘London Review’

• Peter Pulzer

  • Little Germany: Exile and Asylum in Victorian England by Rosemary Ashton

• E.P. Thompson
  26 July 1987, Court of Appeal: the Public Interest v. the Interested Public, Ex parte the Fourth Estate

• Michael Davie

  • The Whitlam Government 1972-1975 by Gough Whitlam

• A.D. Hope reflects on the advent of an Australian literature

  • The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature by William Wilde, Joy Hooton and Barry Andrews

• John Passmore

  • Australian Realism: The Systematic Philosophy of John Anderson by A.J. Baker

• Peter Porter
  Poem: ‘Spiderwise’

• Fleur Adcock
  Poem: ‘Central Time’

• C.K. Stead writes about Christina Stead

  • Ocean of Story: The Uncollected Stories of Christina Stead edited by R.G. Geering
  • The Salzburg Tales by Christina Stead

• Nicholas Penny

  • Faith in Fakes by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver
  • Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages by Umberto Eco, translated by Hugh Bredin

• Christopher Norris

  • On Signs: A Semiotics Reader edited by Marshall Blonsky

• Brian Pippard

  • Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World by Abraham Pais

• John Ziman

  • Bird of Passage: Recollections of a Physicist by Rudolf Peierls
  • A Life in Science by Nevill Mott
  • Stallion Gate by Martin Cruz Smith
  • Day of the Bomb: Hiroshima 1945 by Dan Kurzman
  • Assessing the Nuclear Age edited by Len Ackland and Steven McGuire

• Richard Eyre

  • Stage Fright: Its Role in Acting by Stephen Aaron

• John Bayley

  • An Academic Question by Barbara Pym
  • A Misalliance by Anita Brookner

• Colin McGinn
  Diary

• Nicholas Spice

  • A Simple Story by S.Y. Agnon, translated by Hillel Halkin
  • At the Handles of the Lock: Themes in the Fiction of S.Y. Agnon by David Aberbach
  • Snakewrist by Christopher Burns