CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Bayley
• T.H. Breen
• Susannah Clapp
• Peter Craven
• Ian Jack
• Clive James
• Sylvia Lawson
• Jerome McGann
• Walter Nash
• Patrick Parrinder
• Nicholas Penny
• Jill Roe
• Edward Said
• C.K. Stead
• John Sutherland
• Anthony Thwaite
• Alison Weir

Contents

• Sylvia Lawson

  • Australians: A Historical Library

• Letters
  A.J. Ayer, Editor, ‘London Review’, A.N. Wilson, Les Murray, Jon Halliday, W.J.T. Mitchell, Eugene Kamenka, David Cooper, Christopher MacLehose, Editors, ‘London Review’

• Clive James

  • The Road to Botany Bay by Paul Carter
  • The Oxford History of Australia. Vol. IV: 1901-1942 by Stuart Macintyre
  • The Archibald Paradox: A Strange Case of Authorship by Sylvia Lawson
  • The Lucky Country Revisited by Donald Horne

• John Bayley

  • The Faber Book of Contemporary Australian Short Stories edited by Murray Bail

• Jill Roe
  For Australians only

• C.K. Stead

  • Selected Poems by Les Murray
  • The Daylight Moon by Les Murray

• Anthony Thwaite
  Poem: ‘Multiplied’

• Ian Jack

  • Tales from Two Cities: Travel of Another Sort by Dervla Murphy

• Alison Weir

  • Quiet Rage: Bernie Goetz and the Shootings on the New York Subway by Lillian Rubin

• John Sutherland

  • The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe

• Clive James
  Poem: ‘Last night the sea dreamed it was Greta Scacchi’

• Edward Said

  • Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies and the Reagan Era by Alexander Cockburn

• T.H. Breen

  • Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775 by Roger Ekirch

• Nicholas Penny

  • Painting as an Art by Richard Wollheim

• Jerome McGann

  • Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts: The Panizzi Lectures 1985 by D.F. McKenzie

• Peter Craven

  • The Remake by Clive James
  • In the Land of Oz by Howard Jacobson

• Walter Nash

  • The Panda Hunt by Richard Burns
  • Davy Chadwick by James Buchan
  • Overhead in a Balloon: Stories of Paris by Mavis Gallant
  • Black Idol by Lisa St Aubin de Teran

• Patrick Parrinder
  Diary

• Susannah Clapp

  • A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924 by Julia Briggs
  • Narratives of Love and Loss: Studies in Modern Children’s Fiction by Margaret Rustin and Michael Rustin