Cover: John Sturrock

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Richard Altick
• Tam Dalyell
• Donald Davie
• Daniel Eilon
• P.N. Furbank
• Clive James
• D.A.N. Jones
• Stephen Knight
• Edmund Leach
• John Maynard Smith
• Valerie Pearl
• Hilary Putnam
• Christopher Ricks
• Oliver Sacks
• Paul Seabright
• Francis Spufford
• A.J.P. Taylor
• Emma Tennant
• John Ziman

Contents

• John Maynard Smith

  • Order out of Chaos: The Evolutionary Paradigm and the Physical Sciences by Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers

• Letters
  William Lamont, Roger Knight, J.I.M. Stewart, Charles Hope, James Darke, Jonathan Barnes, Colin Vines, Lindsay Waters, M.L. Reynolds, Bruce White

• Hilary Putnam

  • Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science by Ian Hacking

• Stephen Knight
  Poem: ‘Laughing Gas’

• Paul Seabright

  • What sort of people should there be? by Jonathan Glover

• Oliver Sacks
  Musical Ears

• John Ziman

  • ‘Subtle is the Lord’: The Science and Life of Albert Einstein by Abraham Pais
  • The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature by Heinz Pagels
  • Philosophy and the New Physics by Jonathan Powers
  • Albert Einstein: The Centennial Symposium in Jerusalem edited by Gerald Holton and Yehuda Elkana

• P.N. Furbank

  • Joseph Conrad: A Chronicle by Zdzislaw Najder, translated by Halina Carroll-Najder
  • Conrad under Familial Eyes edited by Zdzislaw Najder, translated by Halina Carroll-Najder

• Richard Altick

  • The Letters of Anthony Trollope edited by John Hall
  • Anthony Trollope: Dream and Art by Andrew Wright

• Donald Davie

  • The Making of the Reader: Language and Subjectivity in Modern American, English and Irish Poetry by David Trotter

• Christopher Ricks

  • Swift: The Man, His Works and the Age: Vol III. Dean Swift by Irvin Ehrenpreis
  • Swift’s Tory Politics by F.P. Lock
  • Jonathan Swift: Political Writer by J.A. Downie
  • The Character of Swift’s Satire edited by Claude Rawson

• Clive James
  Poem: ‘The Philosophical Phallus’

• Emma Tennant
  Poem: ‘Zea the Siberian Tigress’

• D.A.N. Jones

  • Finding the Centre: Two Narratives by V.S. Naipaul
  • A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul

• Valerie Pearl

  • The Age of Elizabeth: England Under the Later Tudors 1547-1603 by D.M. Palliser
  • After the Armada: Elizabethan England and the Struggle for Western Europe 1588-1595 by R.B. Wernham
  • The Defeat of the Spanish Armada by Garrett Mattingly
  • The First Elizabeth by Carolly Erickson
  • The Renaissance and Reformation in Scotland: Essays in Honour of Gordon Donaldson edited by Ian Cowan and Duncan Shaw

• Daniel Eilon

  • Unlikely Stories, Mostly by Alasdair Gray
  • 1982, Janine by Alasdair Gray
  • Spaceache by Snoo Wilson
  • Scorched Earth by Edward Fenton

• Francis Spufford
  Melchior

• A.J.P. Taylor
  Diary

• Edmund Leach

  • The Human Cycle by Colin Turnbull

• Tam Dalyell

  • The Unsinkable Aircraft-Carrier: American Military Power in Britain by Duncan Campbell