Table of Contents

Volume 31, Number 16 · October 25, 1984

Norman A. Stillman, Peaceful Coexistence

The Jews of Islam by Bernard Lewis

V.S. Naipaul, Among the Republicans

V.S. Pritchett, His Angry Way

Mr Noon University Press by D.H. Lawrence, edited by Lindeth Vasey

Alison Lurie, Riding the Wave of the Future

The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit

The Last of the Dragons by E. Nesbit

The Story of the Amulet by E. Nesbit

The Railway Children by E. Nesbit

The Phoenix and the Carpet by E. Nesbit

Five Children and It by E. Nesbit

Neal Ascherson, Living in the Night

Mouroir: Mirrornotes of a Novel by Breyten Breytenbach

Noel Annan, Life at the Top

King George V by Kenneth Rose

Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor by Anne Edwards

Richard Ellmann, The Big Word in 'Ulysses'

Ulysses: A Critical and Synoptic Edition by James Joyce, prepared by Hans Walter Gabler, by Wolfhard Steppe, by Claus Melchior

Mario M. Cuomo, Religious Belief and Public Morality

Robert M. Adams, Animated Paradox

Swift: The Man, his Works, and the Age Vol. I, Mr. Swift and his Contemporaries by Irvin Ehrenpreis

Swift: The Man, his Works, and the Age Vol. II, Dr. Swift by Irvin Ehrenpreis

Swift: The Man, his Works, and the Age Vol. III, Dean Swift by Irvin Ehrenpreis

Seamus Heaney, Making It New

Children in Exile: Poems 1968–1984 by James Fenton

John Hollander, Footnote to a Desperate Letter (poem)

David Joravsky, Is Science Beautiful?

Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction by Gillian Beer

Jonathan Raban, Hard Times

English Journey by J.B. Priestley

English Journey, or The Road to Milton Keynes by Beryl Bainbridge

Frank Kermode, What Nathalie Knew

Childhood by Nathalie Sarraute, translated by Barbara Wright. in consultation with the author

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Letters

John Clarke, Lord Zuckerman, First Use
Robert Craft, Kallman in Athens
David Jackson, Kallman in Athens
Gershon Silins, First Use
R.J. Nelson, Richard C. Lewontin, Plato's Women
Franklin Mendels, Lawrence Stone, 'Proto-Industrialization'

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Contributors

Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)

Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London. (November 2007)

Seamus Heaney's first poetry collection, Death of a Naturalist, appeared forty years ago. Since then he has published poetry, criticism, and translations that have established him as one of the leading poets of his generation. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

John Hollander is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale. His new book of poems, A Draft of Light, will be published by Knopf in May. (March 2008)

Frank Kermode lives in Cambridge, England. His most recent book is The Age of Shakespeare. (May 2008)

Alison Lurie is the author of two collections of essays on children’s literature, Don’t Tell the Grownups and Boys and Girls Forever. She is a former professor of English at Cornell and has published nine novels, of which the most recent is Truth and Consequences. (May 2008)

V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932 and emigrated to England in 1950, when he won a scholarship to University College, Oxford. He is the author of many novels, including A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, and In a Free State, which won the Booker Prize. He has also written several nonfiction works based on his travels, including India: A Million Mutinies Now and Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples. He was knighted in 1990 and in 1993 was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize.

Jonathan Raban's books include Arabia: A Journey Through the Labrynth, Old Glory, Bad Land, Passage to Juneau, and Waxwings. He is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Heinemann Award of the Royal Society of Literature, the PEN/West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award, and the Governor's Award of the State of Washington. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and The Independent. He lives in Seattle.

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