Cover: Ralph Barton

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Julian Barnes
• Robert Blake
• Ronald Blythe
• Victoria Brittain
• Marilyn Butler
• Catherine Lucy Czerkawska
• John Dunn
• Barbara Hardy
• Alan Hollinghurst
• Alasdair Maclean
• John Maynard Smith
• Paul Rock
• John Rodgers
• Sheldon Rothblatt
• Carol Rumens
• Salman Rushdie
• Peter Sedgwick
• J.I.M. Stewart
• Phillip Whitehead

Contents

• Paul Rock
  Rioting

• Letters
  C.H. Sisson, John Hirsh, David Lodge, Richard Webster, Carmen Callil, Anthony Rudolf

• Phillip Whitehead

  • The Media and Political Violence by Richard Clutterbuck

• Robert Blake

  • Anthony Eden by David Carlton

• John Rodgers

  • R.A. Butler: An English Life by Patrick Cosgrave

• John Maynard Smith

  • The Panda’s Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould

• J.I.M. Stewart

  • The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien edited by Humphrey Carpenter and Christopher Tolkien
  • Tolkien and the Silmarils by Randel Helms

• Marilyn Butler

  • Byron’s Letter and Journals. Vol. XI: For Freedom’s Battle edited by Leslie Marchand
  • Byron: The Complete Poetical Works edited by Jerome McGann
  • Red Shelley by Paul Foot
  • Ugo Foscolo, Poet of Exile by Glauco Cambon

• Barbara Hardy
  Poem: ‘The Fox and the Duck’

• Carol Rumens
  Poem: ‘Visiting the Ruminators’

• Sheldon Rothblatt

  • Matthew Arnold: A Life by Park Honan

• Catherine Lucy Czerkawska
  Letter from Warsaw

• Alan Hollinghurst

  • Shuttlecock by Graham Swift
  • The Frights by Nicholas Salaman
  • March House by Mary Hocking
  • The Missing Person by Doris Grumbach

• Salman Rushdie

  • If on a winter’s night a traveller by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver
  • The Path to the Nest of Spiders by Italo Calvino, translated by Archibald Colquhoun
  • Our Ancestors by Italo Calvino, translated by Archibald Colquhoun
  • Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver
  • Invisible Cities The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver

• Ronald Blythe

  • The Diary of a Country Parson, 1758-1802 by Reverend James Woodforde, edited by John Beresford
  • The English Countrywoman: Her Life in Farmhouse and Field from Tudor Times to the Victorian Age by G.E. Fussell and K.R. Fussell
  • The English Countrywoman: Her Life and Work from Tudor Times to the Victorian Age by G.E. Fussell and K.R. Fussell

• Alasdair Maclean
  Poem: ‘Aftermath’

• John Dunn

  • After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory by Alasdair MacIntyre

• Julian Barnes

  • Words on the Air by John Sparrow

• Victoria Brittain

  • Uganda: A Modern History by Jan Jelmert Jorgensen
  • Imperialism and Revolution in Uganda by Wadada Nabudere

• Peter Sedgwick

  • The Changing Face of Western Communism edited by David Childs
  • The Politics of Eurocommunism: Socialism in Transition edited by Carl Boggs and David Plotke
  • Power and the Party: Changing Faces of Communism in Western Europe by Keith Middlemas