Cover: L’Encyclopédie

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Alan Bennett
• Ralf Dahrendorf
• Clive James
• Peter Jenkins
• Gabriel Josipovici
• Alasdair MacIntyre
• Peter Medawar
• Richard Poirier
• Roger Poole
• Simon Schama
• Christopher Serpell
• Robert Taubman
• Charles Tomlinson

Contents

• Simon Schama

  • The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the ‘Encyclopédie’ 1775-1800 by Robert Darnton

• Letters
  Liane Aukin, Gay Clifford, Brigid Brophy, Ken Follett, John Sutherland, John Sturrock, Wynne Godley, Tom Gallagher, T.G. Rosenthal, Editor, ‘London Review of Books’

• Alasdair MacIntyre

  • Western Political Thought in the Face of the Future by John Dunn

• Roger Poole

  • The Moment of ‘Scrutiny’ by Francis Mulhern
  • The Literary Criticism of F.R. Leavis by R.P. Bilan

• Alan Bennett

  • An Actor and his Time by John Gielgud

• Peter Jenkins

  • Final Term: The Labour Government 1974-76 by Harold Wilson

• Christopher Serpell

  • The White House Years by Henry Kissinger

• Richard Poirier

  • The Powers that Be by David Halberstam

• Peter Medawar

  • Howard Florey: The Making of a Great Scientist by Gwyn Macfarlane

• Gabriel Josipovici

  • Cervantes by William Byron

• Robert Taubman

  • Shikasta by Doris Lessing
  • Fergus Lamont by Robin Jenkins
  • A Married Man by Piers Paul Read
  • And Again? by Sean O’Faolain

• Ralf Dahrendorf

  • Class by Jilly Cooper

• Charles Tomlinson
  Poem: ‘Their voices rang’

• Clive James

  • Poems and Journeys by Charles Johnston
  • Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin, translated by Charles Johnston