On modern British fiction / edited by Zachary Leader.

V.S. Pritchett and English comedy / James Wood
No laughing matter: a word on Angus Wilson / P.N. Furbank
Mother tongue: a memoir / Ian McEwan
Between Waugh and Wodehouse: comedy and conservatism / Christopher Hitchens
Ladlit / Elaine Showalter
Enigmas and homelands / Michael Wood
No passes or documents are needed: the writer at home in Europe / Hilary Mantel
Penelope / Wendy Lesser
Why Christopher Isherwood stopped writing fiction / Katherine Bucknell
Shaping modern English fiction: the forms of the content and the contents of the form / Valentine Cunningham
The politics of narrative in the post-war Scottish novel / Liam McIlvanney
The ruined futures of British science fiction / Patrick Parrinder
P.D. James and the distinguished thing / Martin Priestman
The novel adapted for television / Elizabeth Jane Howard
Against dryness / Martin Amis
Commissioning and editing modern fiction / Dan Franklin
Before it becomes literature: how fiction reviewers have dealt with the English novel.