Vol. 4 No. 11 · 17 June 1982

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Vol. 4 No. 11 · 17 June 1982

Oliver Sacks

The Leg

Letters

Francis King, Christopher Ricks, David Cannadine, Jan Smith, Joseph Ginsburg, Francis FitzGibbon, Prabhu Guptara

James Fishkin

More democracy?

Vernon Bogdanor

Democracy at the Polls: A Comparative Study of Competitive National Elections edited by David Butler, Howard Penniman and Austin Ranney

Rosalind Mitchison

The Population History of England 1541-1871: A Reconstruction by E.A. Wrigley and R.S. Schofield

Frank Cioffi

Psycho Politics by Peter Sedgwick
The Voice of Experience by R.D. Laing

Richard Gregory

The Mind’s Best Work by D.N. Perkins
The Mathematical Experience by Philip Davis and Reuben Hersh

Christopher Ricks

From the Land of Shadows by Clive James

Frank Kermode

A Moving Target by William Golding

Jane Miller

Jane Miller writes about the axing of the Schools Council and the implications of this for educational research

Tom Paulin

Re-Reading English edited by Peter Widdowson
Against Criticism by Iain McGilchrist

R.E. Pahl

Inner-City Poverty in Paris and London by Peter Willmott and Charles Madge
The Inner City in Context edited by Peter Hall
New Perspectives in Urban Change and Conflict edited by Michael Harloe
The Politics of Poverty by David Donnison
The Politics of Poverty by Susanne MacGregor

James Michie

Poem: ‘Romantic Experiment’

Fergus Millar

Rich and Poor in the Ancient World

Tam Dalyell

For ever Falkland?

Raymond Williams

Distance

Claude Rawson

St Kilda’s Parliament by Douglas Dunn
Airborn/Hijos del Aire by Octavio Paz and Charles Tomlinson
The Flood by Charles Tomlinson
Looking into the Deep End by David Sweetman
Independence by Andrew Motion

A.J.P. Taylor

Diary: Two Finals

Lorna Tracy

Story: ‘Marriage’

Peter Redgrove

Three Poems

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