Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• T.H. Barrett
• John Bayley
• Malcolm Bull
• Mark Ford
• Carol Gilligan
• Anne Hollander
• Adam Lively
• John Lloyd
• Chauncey Loomis
• Peter Redgrove
• Elaine Showalter
• David Sylvester
• Jenny Turner
• Eugen Weber
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Anne Hollander

  • Life into Art: Isadora Duncan and Her World edited by Dorée Duncan, Carol Pratl and Cynthia Splatt

• Letters
  Robert Nozick, W.G. Runciman, Brian Stone, Freddy Hurdis-Jones, Keith Flett

• Carol Gilligan

  • Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body by Susan Bordo
  • History After Lacan by Teresa Brennan

• Jenny Turner

  • In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding by Deborah Baker

• David Sylvester
  Something to look at

• T.H. Barrett

  • Central Asia in World History by S.A.M. Adshead
  • Japan’s Orient: Rendering Pasts into History by Stefan Tanaka

• Peter Redgrove
  Poem: ‘From: The Advice of Proteus Orpheus Dies, and the God Seeks Out Silenus’

• Malcolm Bull

  • Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith by Norman Cohn

• John Lloyd

  • Scargill: The Unauthorised Biography by Paul Routledge

• Adam Lively

  • The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness by Paul Gilroy
  • Small Acts: Thoughts on the Politics of Black Culture by Paul Gilroy

• John Bayley

  • The Complete Short Stories of Jack London edited by Elrae Labour, Robert Litz and I. Milo Shepard

• Chauncey Loomis

  • Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean

• Michael Wood

  • Short Cuts directed by Robert Altman
  • Short Cuts: The Screenplay by Robert Altman and Frank Barhydt
  • Short Cuts by Raymond Carver, introduced by Robert Altman

• Mark Ford

  • Selected Poems by Charles Olson, edited by Robert Creeley
  • Selected Poems by Robert Duncan, edited by Robert Bertholf

• Elaine Showalter
  Diary

• Eugen Weber

  • Seducing the French: The Dilemma of Americanisation by Richard Kuisel