CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Benedict Anderson
• Andrew Brighton
• Peter Burke
• Peter Campbell
• Allen Curnow
• D.J. Enright
• Penelope Fitzgerald
• Carey Harrison
• Christopher Hitchens
• Ira Katznelson
• Frank Kermode
• Michael Laskey
• David Lindley
• Patrick Parrinder
• Nicholas Penny
• Andrew Roberts
• Peter Rudnytsky
• Elaine Showalter
• Nicolas Tredell
• David Wilson

Contents

• Frank Kermode

  • Musical Elaborations by Edward Said

• Letters
  Francis Wyndham, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin, Valentine Cunningham

• Christopher Hitchens

  • Harlot’s Ghost by Norman Mailer
  • A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs by Theodore Draper

• Benedict Anderson

  • The First Americans: The Spanish Monarchy, Creole Patriots, and the Liberal State, 1492-1867 by D.A. Brading

• Ira Katznelson

  • Language and Power: Exploring Political Cultures in Indonesia by Benedict Anderson

• Peter Rudnytsky

  • The Freud-Klein Controversies 1941-45 edited by Pearl King and Riccardo Steiner

• D.J. Enright
  Poem: ‘In the street’

• David Wilson
  Poem: ‘Power Pictures’

• David Lindley

  • The Triumph of the Embryo by Lewis Wolpert

• Elaine Showalter

  • Anne Sexton: A Biography by Diane Wood Middlebrook

• Andrew Roberts

  • The Enemy’s Country: Words, Contexture and Other Circumstances of Language by Geoffrey Hill

• Peter Campbell

  • Moving Pictures by Anne Hollander

• Allen Curnow
  Poem: ‘Investigations at the Public Baths’

• Nicholas Penny
  Myths of the Artist’s Youth

• Peter Burke

  • The Golden Age of Painting in Spain by Jonathan Brown
  • Spanish Paintings of the 15th through 19th Centuries by Jonathan Brown and Richard Mann

• Michael Laskey
  Poem: ‘A Family Joke’

• Patrick Parrinder

  • King Cameron by David Craig
  • The Hungry Generations by David Gilmour
  • O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker

• Nicolas Tredell

  • Textermination by Christine Brooke-Rose
  • The Women’s Hour by David Caute
  • Look twice by John Fuller

• Andrew Brighton
  Diary

• Carey Harrison

  • Conversations with Marlon Brando by Lawrence Grobel
  • George Sanders: An Exhausted Life by Richard Vanderbeets
  • Rex Harrison: A Biography by Nicholas Wapshott
  • Me: Stories of my Life by Katharine Hepburn

• Penelope Fitzgerald

  • Grandmothers talking to Nell Dunn