Cover: Franz Masereel

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Penelope Fitzgerald
• Ian Hamilton
• John Hughes
• R.W. Johnson
• John Kerrigan
• Gavin Millar
• Andrew Motion
• Les Murray
• J.R. Pole
• Michael Rogin
• John Ryle
• John Sutherland
• Margaret Walters
• Philip Williamson
• Theodore Zeldin

Contents

• Ian Hamilton

  • Collected Poems by Philip Larkin, edited by Anthony Thwaite

• Letters
  Peter Wagner, Michael Mason, Itamar Even-Zohar, William Fryer, Madeleine Zelouf, Jon Silkin, David Sutton, Harvey Sachs

• Les Murray

  • Snakecharmers in Texas by Clive James

• Andrew Motion
  Poem: ‘Tamworth’

• Michael Rogin

  • Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North by Ben Bradlee
  • For the Record: From Wall Street to Washington by Donald Regan

• R.W. Johnson
  Scenes from South African Life

• Penelope Fitzgerald

  • Olive Schreiner: Letters. Vol.1:1871-1899 edited by Richard Rive

• John Ryle

  • The Missionaries by Norman Lewis

• Philip Williamson

  • Baldwin and the Conservative Party: The Crisis of 1929-1931 by Stuart Ball

• John Kerrigan

  • Archaic Figure by Amy Clampitt
  • Tourists by Grevel Lindop
  • Sleeping rough by Charles Boyle
  • This Other Life by Peter Robinson
  • In the Hot-House by Alan Jenkins
  • Monterey Cypress by Lachlan Mackinnon
  • My Darling Camel by Selima Hill
  • The Air Mines of Mistila by Philip Gross and Sylvia Kantaris
  • X/Self by Edward Kamau Brathwaite
  • The Arkansas Testament by Derek Walcott

• J.R. Pole

  • A History of West Indies Cricket by Michael Manley
  • Sobers: Twenty Years at the Top by Garfield Sobers and Brian Scovell

• John Hughes
  Poem: ‘Alchemy: A Tale’

• Gavin Millar

  • A Life by Elia Kazan

• Margaret Walters

  • The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald
  • A Wedding of Cousins by Emma Tennant
  • The Skeleton in the Cupboard by Alice Thomas Ellis

• Theodore Zeldin
  Diary

• John Sutherland

  • Worlds Apart by David Holbrook
  • Story of My Life by Jay McInerney
  • Forgotten Life by Brian Aldiss
  • Incline Our hearts by A.N. Wilson