Cover: Glen Baxter

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Rosemary Ashton
• Lynn Barber
• Glen Baxter
• Michael Brock
• Peter Campbell
• Donald Davie
• Margaret Anne Doody
• Alistair Elliot
• Ian Hamilton
• Karl Miller
• Anthony Parsons
• Peter Pulzer
• Henry Reed
• Neil Rennie
• Carlo Roberts
• Charles Rzepka
• John Sutherland
• David Trotter
• Susan Wicks

Contents

• Ian Hamilton

  • Memoirs by Kingsley Amis

• Letters
  John Thomson, David Bull, Alexander Cockburn, James Rusbridger, Phil Edwards, John Greer Nicholson, Nicolas Walter, E.L. Smith

• Lynn Barber of the ‘Independent on Sunday’ defends the indefensible

  • The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm

• Karl Miller

  • Warrenpoint by Denis Donoghue
  • Darkness Visible by William Styron

• Carlo Roberts
  Looking for Mozart’s cat

• Peter Pulzer

  • Ever Closer Union: Britain’s Destiny in Europe by Hugh Thomas
  • The Challenge of Europe: Can Britain win? by Michael Heseltine

• Donald Davie

  • The Oxford Book of Essays edited by John Gross

• David Trotter

  • Intertextual Dynamics within the Literary Group: Joyce, Lewis, Pound and Eliot by Dennis Brown
  • An Immodest Violet: The Life of Violet Hunt by Joan Hardwick

• Alistair Elliot
  Two Poems

• Michael Brock

  • The Letters of Rudyard Kipling. Vol I: 1872-1889 edited by Thomas Pinney
  • The Letters of Rudyard Kipling. Vol II: 1890-1899 edited by Thomas Pinney

• Henry Reed
  Poem: ‘Psychological Warfare’

• Margaret Anne Doody

  • Henry James and Revision by Philip Horne

• Charles Rzepka

  • The Puritan-Provincial Vision: Scottish and American Literature in the 19th Century by Susan Manning

• Rosemary Ashton

  • The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Duke–Edinburgh Edition. Vols XVI-XVIII: 1843-4 edited by Clyde Ryals and Kenneth Fielding

• Glen Baxter
  Yodelling in Heaven

• Peter Campbell

  • Asya by Michael Ignatieff
  • Health and Happiness by Diane Johnson
  • Happenstance by Carol Shields

• Anthony Parsons
  Diary

• John Sutherland

  • Francesca by Roger Scruton
  • Slave of the Passions by Deirdre Wilson
  • The Invisible Worm by Jennifer Johnston
  • The Secret Pilgrim by John le Carré

• Neil Rennie
  Poem: ‘Now read on’

• Susan Wicks
  Poem: ‘Plates’