CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Barber
• John Bayley
• Peter Campbell
• Anita Desai
• Paul Driver
• Penelope Fitzgerald
• Peter Graham
• Michael Hofmann
• Frank Kermode
• Karl Miller
• Douglas Oliver
• Fiona Pitt-Kethley
• Craig Raine
• Christopher Ricks
• John Ryle
• Carolyn Steedman
• E.P. Thompson
• Mary-Kay Wilmers

Contents

• Craig Raine

  • The Orton Diaries edited by John Lahr

• Letters
  Graham McCann, James Slevim, Marion Smith, Richard Sparks, Fred Inglis, Aidan Foster-Carter, Robert McShea, Richard Rorty, Robert Flint, Editor, ‘London Review’, Mary Lewis, Gordon Wharton, D.M. Bain, Bruno Nightingale, Elisabeth Whitelaw

• John Ryle

  • Radiance from the Waters: Ideals of Feminine Beauty in Mende Art by Sylvia Ardyn Boone

• E.P. Thompson
  Subduing the jury

• Michael Hofmann
  Poem: ‘The Late Richard Dadd, 1817-1886’

• Karl Miller

  • Life is elsewhere by Milan Kundera, translated by Peter Kussi
  • My First Loves by Ivan Klima, translated by Ewald Oser

• Christopher Ricks

  • The Alluring Problem: An Essay on Irony by D.J. Enright
  • Czeslaw Milosz and the Insufficiency of Lyric by Donald Davie

• John Bayley

  • Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years 1903-1939 by Martin Stannard

• Douglas Oliver
  Poem: ‘Skin’

• Carolyn Steedman

  • The Madwoman’s Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings 1968-1985 by Germaine Greer

• Mary-Kay Wilmers

  • The ‘Titanic’: The Full Story of a Tragedy by Michael Davie
  • The IT Girls: Elinor Glyn and Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon by Meredith Etherington-Smith and Jeremy Pilcher

• Penelope Fitzgerald

  • ‘Elizabeth’: The Author of ‘Elizabeth and her German Garden’ by Karen Usborne
  • Alison Uttley: The Life of a Country Child by Denis Judd
  • Richmal Crompton: The Woman behind William by Mary Cadogan

• John Barber

  • Crisis in the Kremlin: Soviet Succession and the Rise of Gorbachev by Richard Owen
  • The Waking Giant: The Soviet Union Under Gorbachev by Martin Walker
  • The Artful Albanian: The Memoirs of Enver Hoxha edited by Jon Halliday

• Peter Campbell

  • Survey of London: Vol. XLII. Southern Kensington: Kensington to Earls Court
  • Follies: A National Trust Guide by Gwyn Headley and Wim Meulenkamp
  • The Botanists by David Elliston Allen
  • British Art since 1900 by Frances Spalding
  • Paintings from Books: Art and Literature in Britain, 1760-1900 by Richard Altick
  • History of the British Pig by John Wiseman

• Peter Graham

  • On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold McGee
  • The French Menu Cookbook by Richard Olney
  • Out to Lunch by Paul Levy
  • The Good Food Guide 1987 edited by Drew Smith

• Anita Desai

  • Talkative Man by R.K. Narayan

• Paul Driver

  • The Death of the Body by C.K. Stead
  • Kramer’s Goats by Rudolf Nassauer
  • Mefisto by John Banville
  • The Century’s Daughter by Pat Barker
  • Love Unknown by A.N. Wilson

• Frank Kermode
  Diary

• Fiona Pitt-Kethley
  Poem: ‘Headaches’