Vol. 2 No. 1 · 24 January 1980

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Vol. 2 No. 1 · 24 January 1980

William Empson

Genesis of Secrecy by Frank Kermode

Letters

Gregory Bateson, Terrence Des Pres, Struan Robertson

Stuart Hampshire

Stuart Hampshire writes about common decency

James Lighthill

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter

Tom Nairn

An Unfinished History of the World by Hugh Thomas

John Dunn

Politics and Letters: Interviews with ‘New Left Review’ by Raymond Williams

Wynne Godley

Wynne Godley calls for general import controls

Kenneth O. Morgan

Brendan Bracken by Charles Edward Lysaght

Clive James

Poem: ‘Thoughts on Feeling Carbon-Dated’

Frank Kermode

Romantic Roots in Modern Art by August Wiedmann
Symbolism by Robert Goldwater
Decadence and the 1890s edited by Ian Fletcher

Rosalind Mitchison

Lord Cockburn: A Bicentenary Commemoration edited by Alan Bell

Karl Miller

Sound Advice for Scotch Reviewers

David Trotter

Book Reviews

John Sutherland

Allen Lane: King Penguin by J.E. Morpurgo

A. Alvarez

Author’s Editor

Hugh Lloyd-Jones

Roman Papers by Ronald Syme, edited by E. Badian

Richard Gregory

Pavlov by Jeffrey Gray
J.B. Watson: The Founder of Behaviourism by David Cohen

Peter Laslett

Wanton Wenches and Wayward Wives: Peasants and Illicit Sex in Early 17th Century England by G.R. Quaife
A History of Myddle by Richard Gough, edited by Peter Razzell

J.Z. Young

Social Being by Rom Harré

Michael Irwin

Confederates by Thomas Keneally
Just Above My Head by James Baldwin
Winter Doves by David Cook
All Girls Together by Paula Neuss

Christopher Reid

Lies and Secrets by John Fuller
Crossing by John Matthias
Growing Up by Michael Horovitz
Report to the Working Party. Asylum. Otiose [preceded by] After by Anthony Barnett

E.S. Turner

Eminent Edwardians by Piers Brendon

Ronald Blythe

A Writer’s Britain: Landscape in Literature by Margaret Drabble

Richard Usborne

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations 

Richard Murphy

Poem: ‘Bookcase for the OED’

Lyndall Gordon

Looking for Laforgue by David Arkell
A Night of Serious Drinking by René Daumal, translated by David Coward

Gabriele Annan

The British Aristocracy by Mark Bence-Jones and Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
The Astors by Virginia Cowles
Barclay Fox’s Journal edited by R.L. Brett

Samuel Hynes

Orwell: The Transformation by Peter Stansky and William Abrahams

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