Cover: John Minihan

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Barton
• John Bayley
• Adam Begley
• Nicholas Canny
• Seamus Deane
• Robert Fisk
• Eugene Goodheart
• Philip Horne
• Frank Kermode
• Jerome McGann
• Norman Page
• Fiona Pitt-Kethley
• Christopher Prendergast
• Claude Rawson
• Harry Ricketts
• Matt Simpson
• Stephen Wall
• Theodore Zeldin

Contents

• Frank Kermode

  • Wartime Journalism, 1939-1943 by Paul de Man, edited by Werner Hamacher, Neil Hertz and Thomas Keenan
  • Critical Writings 1953-1978 by Paul de Man, edited by Lindsay Waters
  • Paul de Man: Deconstruction and the Critique of Aesthetic Ideology by Christopher Norris
  • Reading de Man Reading edited by Lindsay Waters and Wlad Godzich

• Letters
  Arthur Marwick, Angela Carter, Richard Crosfield, Denis Donovan, Michael Mason, R.V. Bates, Craig Raine, Philip Stewart, Malcolm Evans, Frederick Barker

• Nicholas Canny

  • Modern Ireland 1600-1972 by R.F. Foster

• Seamus Deane

  • Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage by Tim Robinson

• Philip Horne

  • Off the Rails: Memoirs of a Train Addict by Lisa St Aubin de Teran
  • The Marble Mountain, and Other Stories by Lisa St Aubin de Teran
  • The Bathroom by Jean-Philippe Toussaint, translated by Barbara Bray
  • Motherland by Timothy O’Grady
  • A Lesser Dependency by Peter Benson

• John Barton

  • The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity by Peter Brown
  • Adam, Eve and the Serpent by Elaine Pagels
  • Heaven: A History by Colleen McDannell and Bernhard Lang

• Harry Ricketts

  • Rudyard Kipling by Martin Seymour-Smith

• Theodore Zeldin

  • The Identity of France. Vol I: History and Environment by Fernand Braudel, translated by Sian Reynolds

• Jerome McGann

  • George Crabbe: The Complete Poetical Works, Vols I-III edited by Norma Dalrymple-Champneys and Arthur Pollard

• Claude Rawson

  • Social Values and Poetic Acts: The Historical Judgment of Literary Work by Jerome McGann

• John Bayley

  • Chekhov: A Spirit Set Free by V.S. Pritchett

• Fiona Pitt-Kethley
  Poem: ‘Bond Girl’

• Matt Simpson
  Poem: ‘John Clare’s Horizon’

• Christopher Prendergast

  • Gillette, or The Unknown Masterpiece by Honoré de Balzac, translated by Anthony Rudolf

• Adam Begley

  • Stories in an Almost Classical Mode by Harold Brodkey

• Eugene Goodheart

  • The company we keep: An Ethics of Fiction by Wayne Booth

• Stephen Wall

  • The Art of the Novel by Milan Kundera, translated by Linda Asher
  • Adult Pleasures: Essays on Writers and Readers by Dan Jacobson

• Robert Fisk
  Diary

• Norman Page

  • Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy: Vol. VI, 1920-1925 edited by Richard Little Purdy and Michael Millgate
  • Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy: Vol. VII, 1926-1927 edited by Richard Little Purdy and Michael Millgate
  • Thomas Hardy: The Offensive Truth by John Goode
  • The Thomas Hardy Journal. Vol. IV: October 1988 edited by James Gibson
  • Hardy’s Metres and Victorian Prosody by Dennis Taylor
  • Collected Short Stories by Thomas Hardy