Cover: Christopher Killip

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Rosemary Ashton
• A.J. Ayer
• David Chandler
• Malcolm Deas
• Penelope Fitzgerald
• Eric Hobsbawm
• Michael Hofmann
• John Holloway
• Harold Lever
• Hugh Lloyd-Jones
• Michael Mason
• M.F. Perutz
• Oliver Sacks
• Edward Said
• Paul Sieghart
• Robert Souhami
• C.K. Stead
• J.I.M. Stewart
• John Sturrock
• John Sutherland
• David Thomson

Contents

• Oliver Sacks
  Witty Ticcy Ray

• Letters
  Audrey Williamson, Roger Kojecky, Iring Fetscher, Hans Keller, Nicholas Tyacke, Richard Mayne, John McLaren, Editors, ‘London Review’

• M.F. Perutz

  • Advice to a Young Scientist by P.B. Medawar

• A.J. Ayer

  • The Scientific Image by Bas C. Van Fraassen

• Robert Souhami

  • Conquering Cancer by Lucien Israel, translated by Joan Pinkham

• Paul Sieghart

  • Mandy by Mandy Rice-Davies and Shirley Flack

• Eric Hobsbawm

  • People’s History and Socialist Theory edited by Raphael Samuel
  • British Labour History by E.H. Hunt

• Malcolm Deas

  • Christianity in the Southern Hemisphere: The Churches in Latin America and South Africa by Edward Norman
  • The Pope’s Divisions by Peter Nichols

• Edward Said
  Crazy America

• Michael Hofmann
  Poem: ‘Miracles of Science’

• John Holloway
  Poem: ‘Holy Mountain’

• Harold Lever
  Accountability

• John Sturrock

  • Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott-Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin

• J.I.M. Stewart

  • Abroad: British Literary Travelling Between the Wars by Paul Fussell

• Penelope Fitzgerald

  • The Simple Life: C.R. Ashbee in the Cotswolds by Fiona MacCarthy
  • Philip Mairet: Autobiographical and Other Papers edited by C.H. Sisson

• C.K. Stead

  • The Poetic Achievement of Ezra Pound by Michael Alexander
  • Ezra Pound and the Pisan Cantos by Anthony Woodward
  • Ezra Pound and the Cantos: A Record of Struggle by Wendy Stallard Flory
  • Ezra Pound and His World by Peter Ackroyd
  • End to Torment: A Memoir of Ezra Pound with Poems from Ezra Pound’s H.D. Book edited by Norman Holmes Pearson and Michael King

• Michael Mason

  • Thirty Seconds by Michael Arlen
  • The Crystal Bucket by Clive James
  • The Message of Television by Roger Silverstone

• David Thomson

  • Charmed Lives by Michael Korda

• Hugh Lloyd-Jones

  • Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual by Walter Burkert
  • Myth and Society in Ancient Greece by Jean-Pierre Vernant, translated by Janet Lloyd

• Rosemary Ashton

  • Goethe’s Plays translated by Charles Passage
  • The Classical Centre: Goethe and Weimar 1775-1832 by T.J. Reed
  • Goethe on Art translated by John Gage
  • The Younger Goethe and the Visual Arts by W.D. Robson-Scott

• John Sutherland

  • Other people by Martin Amis
  • The Magic Glass by Anne Smith
  • The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by Gerald Edwards
  • Sharpe’s Eagle by Bernard Cornwell
  • XPD by Len Deighton

• David Chandler

  • The Commander: A Life of Barclay de Tolly by Michael Josselson and Diana Josselson