Cover: Ghiberti

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• A.J. Ayer
• Alan Bell
• Maxine Berg
• Brigid Brophy
• Marilyn Butler
• Bernard Crick
• Owen Dudley Edwards
• Christopher Hill
• Graham Hough
• Peter Jenkins
• Frank Kermode
• Edmund Leach
• David Marquand
• Keith Middlemas
• Karl Miller
• Rosalind Mitchison
• Craig Raine
• J.M. Roberts
• Norman Stone
• John Thompson
• Blair Worden

Contents

• Peter Jenkins

  • Stop Press by Eric Jacobs

• Letters
  Sheridan Morley, John Lahr, Anita Brookner, Gianfranco Corsini, Alasdair MacIntyre, Colin Haycraft, Jane Howard

• Frank Kermode

  • George Orwell: A Life by Bernard Crick
  • Class, Culture and Social Change: A New View of the 1930s edited by Frank Gloversmith
  • Culture and Crisis in Britain in the Thirties edited by Jon Clark, Margot Heinemann, David Margolies and Carole Snee

• Craig Raine
  Poem: ‘A Free Translation’

• A.J. Ayer

  • Sameness and Substance by David Wiggins

• Brigid Brophy

  • Reconstructing Aphra by Angeline Goreau

• David Marquand

  • Change and Fortune by Douglas Jay
  • Life and Labour by Michael Stewart

• Bernard Crick, author of the life of Orwell which is reviewed in this issue, gives his opinion of the Labour Left

• Alan Bell

  • Raymond Asquith: Life and Letters by John Jolliffe

• Norman Stone

  • Politicians, Socialism and Historians by A.J.P Taylor
  • A.J.P. Taylor: A Complete Annotated Bibliography by Chris Wrigley

• Maxine Berg

  • The Human Condition by William McNeill

• Keith Middlemas on the history of Ireland

  • Ireland: Land of Troubles by Paul Johnson
  • Acts of Union by Anthony Bailey
  • Neighbours by Conor Cruise O’Brien
  • Ireland: A History by Robert Kee

• Rosalind Mitchison on the history of Scotland

  • Presbyteries and Profits: Calvinism and the Development of Capitalism in Scotland 1506-1707 by Gordon Marshall
  • The Jacobite Risings in Britain, 1689-1746 by Bruce Lenman

• J.M. Roberts

  • Europe: Privilege and Protest 1730-1789 by Olwen Hufton

• Christopher Hill

  • Literacy and the Social Order: Reading and Writing in Tudor and Stuart England by David Cressy

• Owen Dudley Edwards

  • Edmund Burke and the Critique of Political Radicalism by Michael Freeman
  • Burke by C.B. Macpherson

• Blair Worden

  • Seventeenth-Century Britain 1603-1714 by J.S. Morrill

• Marilyn Butler

  • Three-Quarter Face by Penelope Gilliatt
  • Show People by Kenneth Tynan
  • When the lights go down by Pauline Kael

• Edmund Leach

  • Black and White by Shiva Naipaul

• Karl Miller
  Death of a Poet

• Graham Hough

  • The Duchess’s Diary by Robin Chapman
  • The Interceptor Pilot by Kenneth Gangemi
  • Judgment Day by Penelope Lively
  • Voyovic by Niall Quinn

• John Thompson

  • Destinations by Jan Morris
  • The Venetian Empire by Jan Morris