Cover: Andrew Freeth

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Martin Amis
• Neal Ascherson
• Marilyn Butler
• Gareth Evans
• Vicki Feaver
• Graham Hough
• Dan Jacobson
• Douglas Johnson
• Frank Kermode
• Michael Mason
• Paul Muldoon
• Peter Parsons
• Valerie Pearl
• Roger Scruton
• Virginia Llewellyn Smith
• Gavin Stamp
• Christopher Sykes
• Tony Tanner
• Mary Warnock
• Richard Wollheim

Contents

• Frank Kermode

  • The State of the Language edited by Leonard Michaels and Christopher Ricks

• Letters
  Kevin Keys, Frank Kermode, William Empson, Anthony Barnett, Nick Humphrey, David Hanly, Brigid Brophy

• Martin Amis

  • The White Album by Joan Didion

• Dan Jacobson

  • The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe

• Neal Ascherson

  • The Climate of Treason by Andrew Boyle

• Gareth Evans

  • Moore by Paul Levy

• Valerie Pearl

  • The City and the Court 1603-1643 by Robert Ashton

• Peter Parsons
  Cornelius Gallus lives

• Graham Hough

  • The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
  • Florence Avenue by Elizabeth North
  • McKay’s Bees by Thomas McMahon
  • The Siesta by Patrice Chaplin

• Michael Mason

  • Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut

• Christopher Sykes

  • The Windsor Story by J. Bryan and Charles Murphy

• Mary Warnock

  • Charles, Prince of Wales by Anthony Holden

• Virginia Llewellyn Smith

  • Chekhov’s Leading Lady by Harvey Pitcher

• Gavin Stamp

  • The Victorian Country House by Mark Girouard
  • The Artist and the Country House by John Harris
  • National Trust Studies 1980 edited by Gervase Jackson-Stops

• Roger Scruton

  • The Role of the Reader by Umberto Eco
  • The Semiotics of the Built Environment by Donald Preziosi

• Richard Wollheim
  A Charismatic View of Pornography

• Tony Tanner

  • Joseph Conrad: The Three Lives by Frederick Karl

• Marilyn Butler

  • Walter Scott and the Historical Imagination by David Brown

• Vicki Feaver
  Poem: ‘Autumn’

• Paul Muldoon
  Poem: ‘The Princess and the Pea’

• Douglas Johnson

  • Napoleon: Master of Europe 1805-1807 by Alistair Horne
  • Napoleon’s Diplomatic Service by Edward Whitcomb
  • Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars by David Chandler
  • Napoleon, the Jews and the Sanhedrin by Simon Schwarzfuchs
  • Auguste de Colbert: Aristocratic Survival in an Era of Upheaval, 1793-1809 by Jeanne Ojala