Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Bayley
• Peter Clarke
• Daniel Dennett
• Jenny Diski
• Alistair Elliot
• Jeremy Harding
• Mary Hawthorne
• Christopher Hitchens
• Anna Husarska
• Julia O’Faolain
• Douglas Oliver
• Fintan O’Toole
• Jonathan Parry
• Iain Sinclair
• Richard Wollheim

Contents

• Richard Wollheim
  Fifty Years On

• Letters
  Noble Frankland, J.M.C. Burton, Donald Davie, B.J. Whelan, Bruce King, Anne Ashworth, Martin Seymour-Smith, Liam Mac Cóil, Mark Hannam, Editor, ‘London Review’

• Christopher Hitchens

  • A Rebel in Defence of Tradition: The Life and ‘Politics’ of Dwight Macdonald by Michael Wreszin

• Alistair Elliot
  Poem: ‘Facing South’

• Anna Husarska
  Crimean Wars

• Daniel Dennett

  • The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker
  • Patterns in the Mind: Language and Human Nature by Ray Jackendoff

• Peter Clarke

  • Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-Tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution, 1931-83 by Richard Cockett

• Jonathan Parry

  • Joseph Chamberlain: Entrepreneur in Politics by Peter Marsh

• Jeremy Harding

  • The Search for Africa: A History in the Making by Basil Davidson

• Douglas Oliver
  Poem: ‘A Salvo for Malawi’

• John Bayley

  • Richard Hughes by Richard Perceval Graves

• Iain Sinclair
  Who is Stewart Home?

• Mary Hawthorne

  • The Seduction of Morality by Tom Murphy
  • A Goat’s Song by Dermot Healy

• Fintan O’Toole

  • Sean O’Faolain: A Life by Maurice Harmon
  • Vive Moi! An Autobiography by Sean O’Faolain

• Jenny Diski
  Diary

• Julia O’Faolain
  Interview with Myself