Cover: Christopher Killip

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Julian Barnes
• John Bayley
• Vincent Descombes
• Michael Hofmann
• Philip Horne
• R.W. Johnson
• P.N. Johnson-Laird
• D.A.N. Jones
• Walter Nash
• Michael Neve
• Adam Phillips
• Fiona Pitt-Kethley
• James Prior
• Philip Roth
• Stephen Sedley

Contents

• Julian Barnes

  • The Counterlife by Philip Roth

• Letters
  Alan Bennett, Stuart Milner-Barry, G.F.C. Plowden, Barbara Everett, Albert Chatterley, Mark Dominik, Angus Calder, J.M. Winter, Mark Thompson, Lawrence Hogben, Robert Barnai, Dido Davies

• Fiona Pitt-Kethley
  Three Poems

• Philip Roth talks about his work

• James Prior
  Giving chase

• R.W. Johnson

  • The People’s Anger: Justice and Revenge in Post-Liberation France by Herbert Lottman

• John Bayley

  • Baroque ’n’ Roll by Brigid Brophy

• Michael Neve

  • In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity by Daniel Kevles

• P.N. Johnson-Laird

  • William James: His Life and Thought by Gerald Myers

• Philip Horne

  • The Whole Family: A Novel by 12 Authors by Henry James and William Dean Howells, edited by Elizabeth Jordan, introduced by Alfred Bendixen
  • ‘Friction with the Market’: Henry James and the Profession of Authorship by Michael Anesko

• Adam Phillips

  • Karl Kraus: Apocalyptic Satirist by Edward Timms
  • Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half-Truths: Selected Aphorisms of Karl Kraus translated by Harry Zohn

• Michael Hofmann

  • Hotel Savoy by Joseph Roth, translated by John Hoare

• Vincent Descombes

  • Foucault: A Critical Reader edited by David Hoy
  • Foucault by Gilles Deleuze

• Stephen Sedley
  Diary

• Walter Nash

  • The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology edited by T.F. Hoad
  • Dictionary of Changes in Meaning by Adrian Room
  • The Story of English by Robert McCrum, William Cran and Robert McNeil
  • Dictionary of American Regional English. Vol. I: Introduction and A-C edited by Frederic Cassidy

• D.A.N. Jones

  • This Small Cloud: A Personal Memoir by Harry Daley