Cover: Christopher Killip

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Rosemary Ashton
• John Barton
• Angela Carter
• Romesh Gunesekera
• Jeremy Harding
• Christopher Husbands
• R.W. Johnson
• Zachary Leader
• Tom Lowenstein
• Michael Mason
• Les Murray
• Richard Poirier
• Sheldon Rothblatt
• Suzanne Scafe
• C.K. Stead
• John Sutherland
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Richard Poirier

  • America by Jean Baudrillard, translated by Chris Turner
  • America Observed: The Newspaper Years of Alistair Cooke by Ronald Wells
  • American Journals by Albert Camus, translated by Hugh Levick

• Letters
  Galen Strawson, Nicholas Roe, Stan Smith, Tony Fairman, Keith Walker, Walter Nash, John Barber

• R.W. Johnson

  • The Permanent Revolution: The French Revolution and its Legacy 1789-1989 edited by Geoffrey Best

• Angela Carter

  • Beauty in History: Society, Politics and Personal Appearance c. 1500 to the Present by Arthur Marwick

• Jeremy Harding
  Matsanga

• Christopher Husbands

  • Racial Consciousness by Michael Banton
  • Beyond the Mother Country: West Indians and the Notting Hill White Riots by Edward Pilkington
  • Under Siege: Racism and Violence in Britain Today by Keith Tompson
  • A Pakistani Community in Britain by Alison Shaw
  • Behind the Frontlines: Journey into Afro-Britain by Ferdinand Dennis
  • Black Youth, Racism and the State: The Politics of Ideology and Policy by John Solomos
  • Integration or Disintegration? Towards a Non-Racist Society by Ray Honeyford

• Romesh Gunesekera
  Two Poems

• Suzanne Scafe

  • Behind the Scenes, or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House by Elizabeth Keckley
  • The Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimke by Brenda Stevenson
  • The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Secole in Many Lands by Mary Secole

• Rosemary Ashton

  • John Henry Newman: A Biography by Ian Ker
  • James Fitzjames Stephen: Portrait of a Victorian Rationalist by K.J.M. Smith

• Michael Mason

  • The Rise of Respectable Society: A Social History of Victorian Britain, 1830-1900 by F.M.L. Thompson
  • Victorian Things by Asa Briggs

• Les Murray
  Two Poems

• Sheldon Rothblatt

  • Victorian Anthropology by George Stocking

• John Sutherland

  • The Facts: A Novelist’s Autobiography by Philip Roth

• Zachary Leader

  • Kisses of the Enemy by Rodney Hall
  • Postcards from Surfers by Helen Garner
  • Forty-Seventeen by Frank Moorhouse

• C.K. Stead

  • Continuum: New and Later Poems 1972-1988 by Allen Curnow

• Tom Lowenstein
  Diary

• Michael Wood

  • Dreams of Roses and Fire by Eyvind Johnson, translated by Erik Friis
  • Women in a River Landscape by Heinrich Böll, translated by David McLintock
  • The Standard Life of a Temporary Pantyhose Salesman by Aldo Busi, translated by Raymond Rosenthal

• John Barton

  • The Book of God: A Response to the Bible by Gabriel Josipovici
  • Who wrote the Bible? by Richard Elliott Friedman