CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Michael Baxandall
• David Cannadine
• Gay Clifford
• Donald Davie
• A.W.F. Edwards
• Ian Hamilton
• Michael Ignatieff
• Clive James
• Douglas Johnson
• D.A.N. Jones
• Edmund Leach
• Robert Marshall-Andrews
• Richard Mayne
• Robert Melville
• James Peacock
• Nicholas Penny
• Melanie Phillips
• Jeremy Reed
• Tim Sebastian
• Martin Swales

Contents

• D.A.N. Jones

  • William Cobbett: The Poor Man’s Friend by George Spater

• Letters
  Gabriel Josipovici, Nicholas Spice, Jonathan Dollimore, David Lodge, Editor, ‘London Review of Books’, Francis King, David Cannadine, William Milne, Alan Bold

• Clive James

  • Christopher Brennan: A Critical Biography by Axel Clark

• Melanie Phillips

  • Unemployment by Jeremy Seabrook
  • The Black Economy: how it works, who it works for, and what it costs by Arnold Heertje, Margaret Allen and Harry Cohen

• Robert Marshall-Andrews

  • Rough Justice: The Extraordinary Truth about Charles Richardson and his Gang by Robert Parker
  • Web of Corruption: The Story of John Poulson and T. Dan Smith by Raymond Fitzwalter and David Taylor
  • Inside Boss: South Africa’s Secret Police by Gordon Winter
  • Crime in Wartime: A Social History of Crime in World War II by Edward Smithies

• Michael Ignatieff

  • The Brixton Disorders: Report of an Inquiry by the Rt Hon. the Lord Scarman
  • Punishment, Danger and Stigma: The Morality of Criminal Justice by Nigel Walker
  • Punishment: A Philosophical and Criminological Inquiry by Philip Bean
  • Dangerousness and Criminal Justice by Jean Floud and Warren Young
  • The Abuse of Power: Civil Liberties in the United Kingdom by Patricia Hewitt

• Jeremy Reed
  Poem: ‘The Person from Porlock’

• Tim Sebastian

  • The Book of Lech Walesa by Lech Badkowski, introduction by Neal Ascherson et al
  • The Polish Challenge by Kevin Ruane

• A.W.F. Edwards
  Silent Pleasures

• Richard Mayne

  • Camus: A Critical Study of his Life and Work by Patrick McCarthy
  • Albert Camus: A Biography by Herbert Lottman
  • The Narcissistic Text: A Reading of Camus’s Fiction by Brian Fitch
  • The Outsider by Albert Camus, translated by Joseph Laredo

• Gay Clifford
  Poem: ‘Confession’

• Douglas Johnson

  • The Left Bank: Writers in Paris, from Popular Front to Cold War by Herbert Lottman

• Nicholas Penny

  • Victorian Sculpture by Benedict Read

• Michael Baxandall

  • German Renaissance Architecture by Henry-Russell Hitchcock

• Robert Melville
  The Last Eleven

• Donald Davie
  Poem: ‘Argonauts’

• Donald Davie

  • The Passages of Joy by Thom Gunn
  • The Occasions of Poetry by Thom Gunn

• David Cannadine

  • Fabianism and Culture: A Study in British Socialism and the Arts, 1884-1918 by Ian Britain
  • The Elmhirsts of Dartington: The Creation of an Utopian Community by Michael Young

• Ian Hamilton
  Diary

• Edmund Leach

  • Myth, Religion and Society: Structuralist Essays by M. Detienne, L. Gernet, J-P. Vernant and P. Vidal-Naquet, edited by R.L. Gordon
  • The Anthropological Circle: Symbol, Function, History by Marc Augé

• James Peacock

  • Negara: The Theatre State in 19th-Century Bali by Clifford Geertz

• Martin Swales

  • The Newton Letter by John Banville