Cover: Frans Masereel

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Shlomo Avineri
• John Bayley
• Norman Buchan
• Susannah Clapp
• David Gilmour
• Ian Hamilton
• Marion Harris
• John Hollander
• D.A.N. Jones
• Peter McDonald
• Hilary Mantel
• Thomas Nagel
• Vincent Newey
• Patrick Parrinder
• Ahdaf Soueif
• Nicholas Spice
• John Sutherland
• E.S. Turner
• Stephen Wall

Contents

• Thomas Nagel

  • Philosophy and the Brain by J.Z. Young
  • Freedom and Belief by Galen Strawson
  • The Oxford Companion to the Mind edited by Richard Gregory

• Letters
  Robert Stewart, E.P. Thompson, Robert Conquest, Parina Stiakaki, Peter Hill, John Pikoulis, William Scammell, Editor, ‘London Review’, Editors, ‘London Review’

• John Bayley

  • Twenty Thousand Streets under the Sky by Patrick Hamilton
  • Trust Me by John Updike
  • Her Story: A Novel by Dan Jacobson

• Nicholas Spice

  • The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
  • The Book and the Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch

• Ian Hamilton

  • The Haw-Lantern by Seamus Heaney

• Stephen Wall

  • A Friend from England by Anita Brookner
  • The New Confessions by William Boyd
  • The Colour of Blood by Brian Moore

• Peter McDonald

  • The Propheteers by Max Apple
  • A Summer Affair by Ivan Klima, translated by Ewald Osers
  • People For Lunch by Georgina Hammick

• Susannah Clapp

  • Serenissima: A Novel of Venice by Erica Jong
  • Her Mother’s Daughter by Marilyn French
  • The Wedding of Jayanthi Mandel by Sara Banerji

• Patrick Parrinder

  • Fortunata and Jacinta: Two Stories of Married Women by Benito Perez Galdos, translated by Agnes Moncy Gullon

• David Gilmour writes about the fiction of Lampedusa and Sciascia

• D.A.N. Jones

  • The Spell by Hermann Broch, translated by H.F. Broch de Rothermann
  • Hermann Broch: A Biography by Paul Michael Lützeler, translated by Janice Furness

• John Sutherland

  • The Day of Creation by J.G. Ballard
  • The Playmaker by Thomas Keneally
  • In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
  • The House of Hospitalities by Emma Tennant

• Vincent Newey

  • The Origins of the English Novel, 1660-1740 by Michael McKeon

• Hilary Mantel

  • The Saudis: Inside the Desert Kingdom by Sandra Mackey
  • Behind the Wall: A Journey through China by Colin Thubron

• Marion Harris
  Poem: ‘Gun Salute’

• John Hollander
  Poem: ‘The Art of Fiction’

• Ahdaf Soueif

  • Persian Nights by Diane Johnson
  • Smile, and Other Stories by Deborah Moggach
  • Fast Lanes by Jayne Anne Phillips

• Shlomo Avineri

  • Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land by David Shipler

• Norman Buchan
  Diary

• E.S. Turner

  • The war the Infantry knew 1914-1919: A Chronicle of Service in France and Belgium by Captain J.C. Dunn, introduction by Keith Simpson
  • Passchendaele: The Story behind the Tragic Victory of 1917 by Philip Warner
  • Poor Bloody Infantry: A Subaltern on the Western Front 1916-17 by Bernard Martin