Cover: Nicolas Huet

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Ian Aitken
• John Bayley
• Linda Colley
• Vicki Feaver
• Ian Hacking
• Philip Horne
• T.H. Irwin
• Frank Kermode
• John Lanchester
• John Lloyd
• Branka Magas
• Hilary Mantel
• Patrick Parrinder
• Richard Rorty
• C.K. Stead
• Anthony Thwaite

Contents

• Richard Rorty

  • Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett

• Letters
  James Callaghan, Christopher Price, Göran Bengtson, Freddy Hurdis-Jones, Editors, Robert Hampson, Richard North, Frank Kermode

• Linda Colley

  • A Passion for Government: The Life of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough by Frances Harris

• Ian Hacking

  • Locke. Vol. I: Epistemology by Michael Ayers
  • Locke. Vol. II: Ontology by Michael Ayers

• Frank Kermode

  • Minor Prophecies: The Literary Essay in the Culture Wars by Geoffrey Hartman
  • Spinoza and the Origins of Modern Critical Theory by Christopher Norris
  • What’s wrong with Postmodernism: Critical Theory and the Ends of Philosophy by Christopher Norris

• Vicki Feaver
  Poem: ‘Right Hand’

• Philip Horne

  • The Jameses: A Family Narrative by R.W.B. Lewis
  • Meaning in Henry James by Millicent Bell

• John Bayley

  • By Heart. Elizabeth Smart: A Life by Rosemary Sullivan

• Anthony Thwaite
  Poem: ‘Elegy for George Barker’

• T.H. Irwin

  • Socrates, Ironist and Moral Philosopher by Gregory Vlastos

• John Lloyd

  • The Soviet Mafia by Arkady Vaksberg, translated by John Roberts and Elizabeth Roberts

• Branka Magas
  Losing the war in Yugoslavia

• Ian Aitken

  • Time to declare by David Owen

• Hilary Mantel

  • Almost a Gentleman. An Autobiography: Vol. II 1955-66 by John Osborne

• C.K. Stead
  Diary

• John Lanchester

  • Among the Thugs by Bill Buford
  • A Strange Kind of Glory by Eamon Dunphy

• Patrick Parrinder

  • The Runaway Soul by Harold Brodkey