Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Bayley
• David A. Bell
• M.F. Burnyeat
• Jonathan Coe
• Margaret Anne Doody
• Ian Hamilton
• Frances Harris
• David Herd
• Michael Hofmann
• Chauncey Loomis
• Frank McLynn
• Isaac Raine
• Sheldon Rothblatt
• Paul Seabright
• Stephen Smith
• Anne Stevenson

Contents

• Margaret Anne Doody

  • Backlash: The Undeclared War against Women by Susan Faludi
  • The War against Women by Marilyn French

• Letters
  Ian McEwan, Craig Copetas, Phil Read, Paul Roazen, A.D. Nuttall, Nigel Smith, Nicolas Walter, David Townsend, R.W. Johnson

• Isaac Raine
  Poem: ‘My Dragon School’

• Anne Stevenson
  Poem: ‘A Belief’

• Ian Hamilton

  • The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice among the Literary Intelligentsia by John Carey

• Sheldon Rothblatt

  • Sea Changes: British Emigration and American Literature by Stephen Fender

• Frances Harris

  • Charles James Fox by L.G Mitchell

• David A. Bell

  • The Fabrication of Louis XIV by Peter Burke

• M.F. Burnyeat

  • The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama

• Paul Seabright

  • Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse; Envisioning a Sustainable Future by Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows and Jorgen Randers

• Frank McLynn

  • The Malaria Capers by Robert Desowitz

• Chauncey Loomis

  • Last Places: A Journey to the North by Lawrence Millman

• John Bayley

  • Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero by Charles Sprawson

• Michael Hofmann

  • Bohin Manor by Tadeusz Konwicki, translated by Richard Lourie

• Stephen Smith
  Mogadishu Diary

• Jonathan Coe

  • Brightness Falls by Jay McInerney
  • The Lost Father by Mona Simpson
  • Out with the Stars by James Purdy

• David Herd

  • Goodstone by Fred Voss