CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Julian Barnes
• Linda Colley
• Mary Douglas
• Ian Hacking
• Selima Hill
• Frank Kermode
• V.G. Kiernan
• Walter Nash
• Nicholas Penny
• David Underdown
• Allon White

Contents

• Allon White
  Too Close to the Bone

• Letters
  Marjorie Perloff, Douglas Fowler, Mark Roskill, J.B. Trapp

• Julian Barnes

  • Flaubert: A Biography by Herbert Lottman

• Frank Kermode

  • A Turn in the South by V.S. Naipaul
  • Allen Tate: A Recollection by Walter Sullivan
  • Self-Consciousness by John Updike

• V.G. Kiernan

  • Jewish History: Essays in Honour of Chimen Abramsky edited by Ada Rapoport-Albert and Steven Zipperstein
  • A History of Islamic Societies by Ira Lapidus

• Ian Hacking

  • Representation and Reality by Hilary Putnam
  • Mental Content by Colin McGinn

• Selima Hill
  Poem: ‘The Hare’

• Mary Douglas

  • The Gender of the Gift: Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia by Marilyn Strathern

• David Underdown

  • Village Revolts: Social Protest and Popular Disturbances in England 1509-1640 by Roger Manning

• Linda Colley

  • The Blackwell Dictionary of Historians edited by John Cannon, R.H.C. Davis, William Doyle and Jack Greene
  • Edward Gibbon, Luminous Historian, 1772-1794 by Patricia Craddock
  • Edward Gibbon: Making History by Roy Porter
  • Macaulay by Owen Dudley Edwards
  • Acton by Hugh Tulloch

• Nicholas Penny
  Diary

• Walter Nash

  • The Book of Evidence by John Banville
  • Carn by Patrick McCabe
  • The Tryst by Michael Dibdin
  • Gerontius by James Hamilton-Paterson