Cover: Mark Gerson

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Bayley
• Barbara Everett
• Penelope Fitzgerald
• John Kerrigan
• David Lan
• Edmund Leach
• Karl Miller
• Blake Morrison
• Christopher Ricks
• Tom Shippey
• Francis Spufford
• John Sutherland
• E.S. Turner

Contents

• Barbara Everett
  Philistines

• Letters
  Shirrell Larsen, Sheila Jones, Barbara Everett, Bernard McCabe, G.F.C. Plowden, C.O. Brink, G.G. Harper, Jean Bone, Michael Neve, David Flinn, James Drake, Vincent Descombes, Editor, ‘London Review’, Anne Olivier Bell, Editor, ‘London Review of Books’

• Blake Morrison
  Poem: ‘Whinny Moor’

• Tom Shippey

  • The French Peasantry 1450-1660 by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, translated by Alan Sheridan
  • The Superstitious Mind: French Peasants and the Supernatural in the 19th Century by Judith Devlin

• Edmund Leach

  • Black Athena: The Afro-Asiatic Roots of Classical Civilisation. by Martin Bernal

• E.S. Turner

  • March to the South Atlantic: 42 Commando Royal Marines in the Falklands War by Nick Vaux and Max Hastings
  • Further Particulars: Consequences of an Edwardian Boyhood by C.H. Rolph

• Karl Miller

  • The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories by Michael Cox and R.A. Gilbert
  • The Ghost Stories of M.R. James by Michael Cox
  • Supernatural Tales by Vernon Lee
  • The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural edited by Jack Sullivan
  • Ghostly Populations by Jack Matthews

• Penelope Fitzgerald

  • A Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsley by Katherine Frank
  • Marilyn by Gloria Steinem and George Barris
  • Joe and Marilyn: A Memory of Love by Roger Kahn
  • I leap over the wall by Monica Baldwin and Karen Armstrong
  • Diary of a Zen Nun: A Moving Chronicle of Living Zen by Nan Shin (Nancy Amphoux)

• Christopher Ricks

  • The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections by V.S. Naipaul

• John Bayley

  • Randall Jarrell’s Letters edited by Mary Jarrell
  • The Complete Prose of Marianne Moore edited by Patricia Willis

• John Sutherland

  • The Great Pretender by James Atlas
  • The Position of the Body by Richard Stern
  • The Setting Sun and the Rolling World by Charles Mungoshi
  • Conversations with Lord Byron on Perversion, 162 Years after his Lordship’s Death by Amanda Prantera

• John Kerrigan

  • The Faber Book of Contemporary American Poetry edited by Helen Vendler
  • Selected Poems by John Ashbery
  • The Poetry Book Society Anthology 1986/87 edited by Jonathan Barker
  • Two Horse Wagon Going By by Christopher Middleton

• David Lan
  Diary

• Francis Spufford

  • Greyhound for Breakfast by James Kelman
  • Pauper, Brawler and Slanderer by Amos Tutuola