Cover: Tom Miller

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Richard Altick
• Stephen Bann
• John Bayley
• Patricia Beer
• George Caird
• Mark Elvin
• Barbara Everett
• David Hoy
• Colin Legum
• Karl Miller
• Tom Paulin
• Zheng Peidi
• Malise Ruthven
• P.F. Strawson
• A.J.P. Taylor
• Mary-Kay Wilmers

Contents

• Mary-Kay Wilmers

  • Rules of the Game: Sir Oswald and Lady Cynthia Mosley 1896-1933 by Nicholas Mosley

• Letters
  Robert Hutchison, Christopher Hawtree, Jean Raison, Graham Hough, Philip Rice, Leslie Dick, Editor, ‘London Review of Books’, Stephen Adamson

• Barbara Everett

  • Larkin at Sixty edited by Anthony Thwaite
  • The Art of Philip Larkin by Simon Petch

• John Bayley

  • The Correspondence of Boris Pasternak and Olga Friedenberg 1910-1954 edited by Elliott Mossman, translated by Elliott Mossman and Margaret Wettlin

• Colin Legum

  • Powers of the Press: The World’s Great Newspapers by Martin Walker
  • Goodbye Gutenberg: The Newspaper Revolution of the 1980s by Anthony Smith
  • New Technology and Industrial Relations in Fleet Street by Roderick Martin
  • News Ltd: Why you can’t read all about it by Brian Whitaker

• Zheng Peidi
  My Days in the Cowshed

• Mark Elvin

  • China Diary by Stephen Spender and David Hockney

• Malise Ruthven
  Malise Ruthven discusses the Beirut massacre

• George Caird

  • The Story of the Stories: The Chosen People and its God by Dan Jacobson
  • The Art of Biblical Narrative by Robert Alter
  • The Great Code: The Bible and Literature by Northrop Frye

• Patricia Beer
  Poem: ‘The Lost Woman’

• P.F. Strawson

  • Philosophy in the 20th Century by A.J. Ayer

• David Hoy

  • Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics by Hubert Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow, with an afterword by Michel Foucault

• Tom Paulin
  Poem: ‘The Argument at Great Tew’

• Richard Altick

  • Fortune and Men’s Eyes: The Career of John Payne Collier by Dewey Ganzel

• A.J.P. Taylor
  Diary

• Stephen Bann

  • The Prince buys the Manor by Elspeth Huxley
  • Faultline by Sheila Ortiz Taylor
  • Scenes from Metropolitan Life by William Cooper
  • Constance, or Solitary Practices by Lawrence Durrell
  • Mickelsson’s Ghosts by John Gardner
  • Beware of pity by Stefan Zweig, translated by Phyllis Blewitt and Trevor Blewitt

• Karl Miller
  Lost Artist