CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Gabriele Annan
• Stephen Bann
• Donald Davie
• Gavin Ewart
• Penelope Fitzgerald
• Ian Hamilton
• Geoffrey Hawthorn
• Douglas Johnson
• Jeff McMahan
• David Marquand
• Thomas Nagel
• Adrian Poole
• Simon Raven
• Malise Ruthven
• Simon Schaffer
• J.I.M. Stewart
• Norman Stone
• John Sutherland
• Hugo Williams

Contents

• Norman Stone

  • Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World by Elizabeth Young-Bruehl
  • Hannah Arendt and the Search for a New Political Philosophy by Bhikhu Parekh

• Letters
  Nicolas Walter, Editor, ‘London Review of Books’, Paul Milican, Robert Wilcocks, Douglas Johnson, Paul Johnson

• Malise Ruthven

  • Two Minutes over Baghdad by Amos Perlmutter, Michael Handel and Uri Bar-Joseph
  • Inside the Middle East by Dilip Hiro
  • America Held Hostage: The Secret Negotiations by Pierre Salinger

• Jeff McMahan

  • The Fate of the Earth by Jonathan Schell
  • The Two-Edged Sword: Armed Force in the Modern World by Laurence Martin
  • Zero Option by E.P. Thompson
  • Disarming Europe edited by Mary Kaldor and Dan Smith

• Thomas Nagel

  • Moral Thinking: Its Levels, Method and Point by R.M. Hare

• Simon Schaffer

  • Explaining the Unexplained: Mysteries of the Paranormal by Hans Eysenck and Carl Sargent
  • Appearances of the Dead: A Cultural History of Ghosts by R.C. Finucane
  • Hauntings and Apparitions by Andrew Mackenzie
  • Beyond the Body: An Investigation of Out-of-the-Body Experiences by Susan Blackmore

• David Marquand

  • Tony Crosland by Susan Crosland

• Geoffrey Hawthorn

  • Ethology by Robert Hinde
  • Social Anthropology by Edmund Leach
  • Religion by Leszek Kolakowski
  • Historical Sociology by Philip Abrams

• Douglas Johnson

  • J’Accuse by Graham Greene

• John Sutherland

  • The Gentleman in Trollope: Individuality and Moral Conduct by Shirley Letwin
  • The Idea of the Gentleman in the Victorian Novel by Robin Gilmour

• Penelope Fitzgerald

  • Collected Poems and Prose by Charlotte Mew, edited by Val Warner

• Donald Davie

  • Arvon Foundation Poetry Competion: 1980 Anthology by Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney
  • Burn this by Tom Disch

• Gavin Ewart
  Poem: ‘Jason Strugnell’s Competition Sonnet’

• Simon Raven

  • Dornford Yates: A Tragedy by A.J. Smithers

• Stephen Bann

  • When things of the spirit come first by Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Patrick O’Brian
  • Union Street by Pat Barker
  • Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood
  • Bodily Harm by Margaret Atwood
  • Hearts: A Novel by Hilma Wolitzer
  • Pzyche by Amanda Hemingway
  • December Flower by Judy Allen

• Adrian Poole

  • A crowd is not company by Robert Kee
  • Bedbugs by Clive Sinclair
  • New Writing and Writers 19
  • Zhenia’s Childhood by Boris Pasternak, translated by Alec Brown

• J.I.M. Stewart

  • The Great Detectives: Seven Original Investigations by Julian Symons
  • Critical Observations by Julian Symons
  • As I walked down New Grub Street: Memories of a Writing Life by Walter Allen

• Hugo Williams
  Poem: ‘The Spring of Sheep’

• Ian Hamilton
  Diary

• Gabriele Annan

  • Early Memoirs by Bronislava Nijinska, translated by Irina Nijinska and Jean Rawlinson