Cover: Richard Avedon

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Paul Addison
• John Bayley
• Nicholas Best
• Peter Campbell
• Don Coles
• Patricia Craig
• Christopher Hitchens
• Andrew Hodges
• Frank Kermode
• Patrick Parrinder
• Fiona Pitt-Kethley
• Gareth Reeves
• Christopher Reid
• Richard Rorty
• Robert Walshe
• Michael Wilding
• Bernard Williams
• Raymond Williams

Contents

• Richard Rorty
  The Contingency of Language

• Letters
  R.W. Johnson, Thomas LaBorie Burns and Ana Lucia Gazolla, Michael Taylor, Editor, ‘London Review’, Donald Greene, Andrew Franklin, David Lancaster, Editors, ‘London Review’

• Bernard Williams

  • A Matter of Principle by Ronald Dworkin

• Raymond Williams

  • Landscape for a Good Woman: A Story of Two Lives by Carolyn Steedman

• Nicholas Best

  • Lester: The Official Biography by Dick Francis
  • Born Lucky by John Francome

• Paul Addison

  • Clement Attlee by Trevor Burridge
  • The Second World War Diary of Hugh Dalton 1940-1945 edited by Ben Pimlott
  • Loyalists and Loners by Michael Foot

• Andrew Hodges

  • Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern by Douglas Hofstadter
  • Ada: A Life and a Legacy by Dorothy Stein

• Peter Campbell

  • In the American West by Richard Avedon
  • Photoportraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson

• Christopher Hitchens

  • Hollywood Babylon II by Kenneth Anger
  • Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan by Robin Wood

• Frank Kermode

  • Along with Youth: Hemingway, the Early Years by Peter Griffin
  • The Young Hemingway by Michael Reynolds
  • Hemingway: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers

• Don Coles
  Poem: ‘My Death as the Wren Library’

• John Bayley

  • The Fisher King by Anthony Powell

• Robert Walshe

  • Three of a Kind by Rachel Ingalls
  • Home Truths by Mavis Gallant
  • Later the Same Day by Grace Paley

• Patrick Parrinder

  • Gerald’s Party by Robert Coover
  • Caracole by Edmund White
  • Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor
  • In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason

• Patricia Craig

  • Somerville and Ross: The World of the Irish R.M. by Gifford Lewis

• Christopher Reid

  • What the light was like by Amy Clampitt
  • Facing Nature by John Updike
  • Nero by Jeremy Reed
  • V. by Tony Harrison
  • Dramatic Verse: 1973-1985 by Tony Harrison
  • Sky Ray Lolly by Fiona Pitt-Kethley
  • The Tower of Glass by Fiona Pitt-Kethley
  • Making cocoa for Kingsley Amis by Wendy Cope

• Fiona Pitt-Kethley
  Diary

• Michael Wilding

  • The Image, and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer

• Gareth Reeves
  Poem: ‘Bob Tombs’