Cover: Werner Forman

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Bayley
• Peter Campbell
• Bruce Chatwin
• Susannah Clapp
• Malcolm Deas
• Ted Hughes
• Michael Irwin
• R.W. Johnson
• Danny Karlin
• Frank Kermode
• Chauncey Loomis
• Claudio Segrè
• Hugh Thomas
• Patrick Wright

Contents

• Patrick Wright

  • Home: A Short History of an Idea by Witold Rybczynski

• Letters
  Ted Honderich, Colin McGinn, Editors, ‘London Review’, Claude Rawson, Glen Frankfurter, Cushing Strout, Andrew Robinson, Margot Heinemann, George Steiner, Emil Rado

• Peter Campbell

  • The Graphic Language of Neville Brody by Jon Wozencroft
  • The Making of the ‘Independent’ by Michael Crozier

• Ted Hughes
  Poem: ‘On the Reservations’

• Danny Karlin

  • Blasted Allegories: An Anthology of Writings by Contemporary Artists edited by Brian Wallis
  • Empire of the Senseless by Kathy Acker
  • The Western Lands by William Burroughs

• R.W. Johnson

  • Passion and Cunning, and Other Essays by Conor Cruise O’Brien
  • God Land: Reflections on Religion and Nationalism by Conor Cruise O’Brien

• Bruce Chatwin
  The Seventh Day

• John Bayley

  • A.E. Housman: Collected Poems and Selected Prose edited by Christopher Ricks

• Susannah Clapp

  • A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark

• Chauncey Loomis

  • Living Arctic: Hunters of the Canadian North by Hugh Brody

• Malcolm Deas

  • Against All Hope by Armando Valladares, translated by Andrew Harley
  • Castro by Peter Bourne
  • Fidel: A Critical Portrait by Tad Szulc
  • Castro and the Cuban Labour Movement: Statecraft and Society in a Revolutionary Period (1959-1961) by Efren Cordova
  • Fidel and Religion: Castro talks on revolution and religion with Frei Betto translated by the Cuban Centre for Translation

• Claudio Segrè

  • Democracy, Italian Style by Joseph LaPalombara

• Hugh Thomas
  Diary

• Frank Kermode

  • Gorbals Boy at Oxford by Ralph Glasser

• Michael Irwin

  • The Sykaos Papers by E.P. Thompson