Cover: Wilfred Thesiger

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Gabriele Annan
• John Bayley
• Alan Bennett
• Ronald Bryden
• Patricia Craig
• Gavin Ewart
• Mark Ford
• Harriet Guest
• Dan Jacobson
• R.W. Johnson
• Alexander Nehamas
• Patrick Parrinder
• Edward Said
• Susan Sontag

Contents

• Edward Said

  • Going to Miami: Exiles, Tourists and Refugees in the New America by David Rieff
  • Miami by Joan Didion

• Letters
  Shlomo Avineri, Brian Johnston, Alan Wearne, Editor, ‘London Review’, Susanna Merry, Martin Wilkinson, Craig Raine, A.D. Harvey, Frank Palmer, Paul Delany, Marjorie Perloff, Ben Pimlott

• Alan Bennett
  Where was I in 1987?

• Susan Sontag
  Wagner’s Fluids

• Ronald Bryden

  • The Life of Kenneth Tynan by Kathleen Tynan

• Alexander Nehamas

  • The Closing of the American Mind: How higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today’s students by Allan Bloom

• Harriet Guest

  • The Rules of Life by Fay Weldon
  • The Hearts and Lives of Men by Fay Weldon

• Dan Jacobson
  Amazed

• Patricia Craig

  • The Female Form by Rosalind Miles
  • Feminism and Poetry by Jan Montefiore
  • Nostalgia and Sexual Difference by Janice Doane and Devon Hodges
  • Reading Woman by Mary Jacobus
  • The New Feminist Criticism edited by Elaine Showalter
  • Reviewing the Reviews

• Gavin Ewart
  Poem: ‘‘Family in Terror of an Evil Spirit’’

• Mark Ford

  • Meeting the British by Paul Muldoon
  • Partingtime Hall by James Fenton and John Fuller
  • Private Parts by Fiona Pitt-Kethley
  • Bright River Yonder by John Hartley Williams

• John Bayley

  • John Keats by John Barnard
  • Keats as a Reader of Shakespeare by R.S. White

• Gabriele Annan

  • Broken Blood: The Rise and Fall of the Tennant Family by Simon Blow

• R.W. Johnson
  Diary

• Patrick Parrinder

  • Life: A User’s Manual by Georges Perec, translated by David Bellos
  • The New York Trilogy: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room by Paul Auster