Cover: Mark Boxer

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Paul Addison
• Patricia Beer
• Brigid Brophy
• Peter Campbell
• D.J. Enright
• James Fenton
• Nicholas Humphrey
• Clive James
• Douglas Johnson
• Frank Kermode
• Zachary Leader
• Chauncey Loomis
• Michael Mason
• Christopher Ricks

Contents

• Clive James

  • Taking Sides by Bernard Levin

• Letters
  Richard Webster, C.J.M. Hardie, Michael Hastings, Editor, ‘London Review of Books’, Robert Young, Editor, ‘London Review of Books’

• Frank Kermode

  • The Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 1940-1971 edited by Simon Karlinsky
  • Vladimir Nabokov: A Tribute edited by Peter Quennell

• Brigid Brophy

  • Jane Austen’s Letters edited by R.W. Chapman

• Patricia Beer
  Poem: ‘Midsummer in Town’

• Nicholas Humphrey

  • Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity by Gregory Bateson

• Chauncey Loomis

  • Scott and Amundsen by Roland Huntford

• Paul Addison

  • Consensus and Disunity: The Lloyd George Coalition Government 1918-1922 by Kenneth O. Morgan

• Christopher Ricks

  • The Mangan Inheritance by Brian Moore

• D.J. Enright

  • The Storyteller by Alan Sillitoe

• Michael Mason

  • The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth

• Zachary Leader

  • Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright by Steven Millhauser
  • A Prize Paradise by Oliver Pritchett
  • A Revenger’s Comedy by Derwent May

• Peter Campbell
  Peter Campbell looks at the Hayward Gallery Thirties show

• Douglas Johnson

  • The King of Romance: A Portrait of Alexandre Dumas by F.W.J. Hemmings

• James Fenton

  • A Martian sends a postcard home by Craig Raine
  • Arcadia by Christopher Reid
  • Love-Life by Hugo Williams
  • A Faust Book by D.J. Enright
  • Time by Yehuda Amichai