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Four Contemporary Novelists offer accounts of the fiction of Angus Wilson, Brian Moore, John Fowles, and V. S. Naipaul. The author has charted the development of each writer; identified dominant themes, controlling techniques, and informing sensibility; explained what each has tried to accomplish and compare theory to practice; provided an appropriate context for appreciation and evaluation of all parts of each canon; and made qualitative discriminations.

This essay recuperates Brian Moore’s mostly forgotten classic of Canadian immigrant fiction, The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1960), in a reading of its protagonist as a study in the necessary self-renovation of a new Canadian. Employing the scholarly work that has been done on the Irish in Canada over the past few decades, this essay contextualizes its reading of Moore’s mid-century novel in a mildly corrective history of Irish immigration to that point. Ginger Coffey will also be seen to prefigure—on the eve of Canada’s officially becoming the much-admired multicultural nation it is today—the central question facing Canadians respecting immigration. The unaccommodating setting of Ginger Coffey, its historical contexts, and its compromising immigrant’s (Ginger Coffey’s) hard-won promise of eventual integration into Canadian society challenge readers to entertain questions about the extent of Canada’s tolerance of immigrants’ tenaciously mistaken dreams.

Alan allport, author of the recently published Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1938-1941 (Knopf, 2020), includes in his acknowledgements words of the sort that will probably be found in other books appearing in 2020-2021. [...]from September 7 civilians for the first time in a Western country (barring Spain in its Civil War) were subject to terror bombing, putting almost everyone - men, women, and children - on the front line. There is the scent of shock and death on many pages of Allport s book (and others), sometimes as vivid as in a work of fiction, such as Brian Moore's novel The Emperor of Ice-Cream (Viking, 1965), with its gruesome details of the Blitz on Belfast. The remarkable diary of housewife Nella Last of Barrow-in-Furness includes well over a hundred pages of handwriting about the raids on her shipyard city in April and May 1941, and how they affected her and others, her observations enlivened with an impressive richness of detail.10 Diarists responded to life's immediacies, so they often recorded minutiae (conversations with strangers, incidents on public transport) and moods that would otherwise go unnoticed, or soon be forgotten.

Trimmed-mean personal consumption expenditure (PCE) inflation does not clearly dominate PCE inflation excluding food and energy in real-time forecasting of headline PCE inflation. However, trimmed-mean inflation is the superior communications and policy tool because it has been a lessbiased real-time estimator of headline inflation and because it more successfully filters out headline inflation's transitory variation, leaving only cyclical and trend components. (JEL E31, E37, E52)

(1921–99), novelist, born and educated in Belfast. He emigrated in 1948 to Canada and subsequently moved to