Cover: Walker Evans

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Neal Ascherson
• Susannah Clapp
• Christopher Driver
• Penelope Gilliatt
• Ted Hughes
• Dan Jacobson
• D.A.N. Jones
• Alan Macfarlane
• Karl Miller
• Hilary Putnam
• Oliver Sacks
• Philip Short
• Tony Smith
• Robert Taubman
• A.J.P. Taylor
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Oliver Sacks
  The man who mistook his wife for a hat

• Letters
  Craig Raine, John Spiers, Stanley Wells, Patrick Curry

• Hilary Putnam

  • The Varieties of Reference by Gareth Evans, edited by John McDowell

• Susannah Clapp

  • Elizabeth Bishop: The Complete Poems 1927-1979

• Karl Miller

  • Robert Lowell: A Biography by Ian Hamilton

• Ted Hughes
  Poem: ‘The Gulkana’

• Neal Ascherson

  • Salvador by Joan Didion

• Penelope Gilliatt

  • The Life of Katherine Anne Porter by Joan Givner

• Michael Wood

  • Duluth by Gore Vidal
  • Pink Triangle and Yellow Star and Other Essays 1976-1982 by Gore Vidal

• Philip Short

  • Khrushchev by Roy Medvedev, translated by Brian Pearce
  • Soviet Policy for the 1980s edited by Archie Brown and Michael Kaser

• Alan Macfarlane

  • Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England 1500-1800 by Keith Thomas

• Tony Smith

  • Herpes: The Facts by J.K. Oates

• D.A.N. Jones

  • The Boy Scout Handbook and Other Observations by Paul Fussell

• Dan Jacobson
  ‘Patient’ – Part Two

• A.J.P. Taylor
  Diary

• Christopher Driver

  • Fools of Fortune by William Trevor
  • What a beautiful Sunday! by Jorge Semprun, translated by Alan Sheridan
  • An Innocent Millionaire by Stephen Vizinczey
  • The Papers of Tony Veitch by William McIlvanney
  • In the Shadow of the Paradise Tree by Sasha Moorsom
  • The Bride by Bapsi Sidhwa

• Robert Taubman

  • The Philosopher’s Pupil by Iris Murdoch