Cover: Abram Shterenberg

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Paul Addison
• Patricia Beer
• Saul Bellow
• Melvyn Bragg
• Anita Brookner
• Marilyn Butler
• Malcolm Deas
• Ruth Fainlight
• Martin Gilbert
• Michael Hofmann
• Graham Hough
• Robert Ilson
• Dan Jacobson
• Frank Kermode
• Michael Mason
• John Sutherland
• A.J.P. Taylor
• Mary-Kay Wilmers

Contents

• Anita Brookner

  • Mrs Harris by Diana Trilling

• Letters
  Solly Zuckerman, Ian Gilmour, Nicholas Murray, Rosemary Burton, Michael Horovitz, Blake Morrison, Arthur Freeman

• Graham Hough
  Culture and Sincerity

• Mary-Kay Wilmers

  • Every Secret Thing by Patricia Hearst and Alvin Moscow
  • A Death in California by Joan Barthel

• Malcolm Deas
  Argy-Bargy

• Michael Hofmann
  Two Poems

• Dan Jacobson

  • Disraeli’s Grand Tour: Benjamin Disraeli and the Holy Land 1830-31 by Robert Blake

• Paul Addison

  • Churchill’s Political Philosophy by Martin Gilbert
  • Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years by Martin Gilbert
  • Churchill and de Gaulle by François Kersaudy
  • The Diaries of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart edited by Kenneth Young
  • Churchill’s Indian Summer by Anthony Seldon

• Ruth Fainlight
  Poem: ‘Death’s Love-Bite’

• Martin Gilbert

  • Mussolini by Denis Mack Smith
  • Mussolini Unleashed 1939-41 by MacGregor Knox

• Frank Kermode

  • Joseph Conrad: A Biography by Roger Tennant
  • Edward Garnett: A Life in Literature by George Jefferson
  • The Edwardian Novelists by John Batchelor
  • The Uses of Obscurity: The Fiction of Early Modernism by Allon White

• Patricia Beer

  • The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West 1911-17 by Jane Marcus
  • The Harsh Voice by Rebecca West, introduced by Alexandra Pringle
  • The Meaning of Treason by Rebecca West
  • 1990 by Rebecca West

• Marilyn Butler

  • An Unsuitable Attachment by Barbara Pym

• John Sutherland

  • Headbirths, or The Germans are dying out by Günter Grass, translated by Ralph Manheim
  • The Skating Party by Marina Warner
  • Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo
  • At Freddie’s by Penelope Fitzgerald

• Michael Mason

  • The Politics of Culture and Other Essays by Roger Scruton

• Robert Ilson

  • Oxford American Dictionary
  • Longman New Generation Dictionary
  • Funk and Wagnalls Standard Desk Dictionary

• A.J.P. Taylor
  Diary

• In conversation with Melvyn Bragg, Saul Bellow talks about his new novel, and about the women of Eastern Europe