Cover: Margaret Bourke-White

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Paul Addison
• John Hedley Brooke
• Peter Godman
• Christian Hesketh
• E.D. Hirsch
• John Horgan
• Philip Horne
• Jennifer Hornsby
• Frank Kermode
• William Lamont
• Martin Pugh
• Mark Ridley
• Jonathan Steinberg
• J.P. Stern
• Norman Stone
• Matthew Sweeney

Contents

• Jonathan Steinberg

  • After Poland by Enrico Berlinguer, translator Antonio Bronda and Stephen Boddington

• Letters
  Tony Burgess, David Callahan, Paul Milican, Susanne Kappeler, Julie Jack, Editor, ‘London Review of Books’, A.J. Ryder, Paul Edwards, Prudence Crowther

• Paul Addison

  • Winston Churchill: Companion Vol. V, Part III, The Coming of War 1936-1939 by Martin Gilbert
  • Finest Hour: Winston Churchill, 1939-1941 by Martin Gilbert
  • Churchill 1874-1915 by Ted Morgan
  • The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 by William Manchester

• John Horgan

  • In Time of War by Robert Fisk

• Martin Pugh

  • Governing without a Majority by David Butler
  • Multi-Party Politics and the Constitution by Vernon Bogdanor
  • Decade of Dealignment by Bo Särlvik, Ivor Crewe, Neil Day and Robert MacDermid

• Mark Ridley

  • Evolution and Theory of Games by John Maynard Smith

• John Hedley Brooke

  • Archetypes and Ancestors: Palaeontology in Victorian London 1850-1875 by Adrian Desmond
  • Evolution without Evidence: Charles Darwin and ‘The Origin Species’ by Barry Gale
  • The Secular Ark: Studies in the History of Biogeography by Janet Browne
  • The Descent of Darwin: A Handbook of Doubts about Darwinsm by Brain Leith

• Jennifer Hornsby

  • Language and Thought by John Pollock

• J.P. Stern

  • Franz Kafka’s Loneliness by Marthe Robert, translator Ralph Manheim
  • Kafka’s Narrators by Roy Pascal
  • The Trial by Franz Kafka, translator Willa Muir and Edwin Muir
  • Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka, editor Willy Haas, translator Tania Stern and James Stern
  • The Penguin Complete Novels of Franz Kafka: ‘The Trial’, ‘The Castle’, ‘America’ translated by Willa Muir, illustrated by Edwin Muir
  • The Penguin Complete Short Stories of Franz Kafka edited by Nahum Glatzer

• Peter Godman

  • The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays by J.R.R. Tolkien, editor Christopher Tolkien
  • The Road to Middle-Earth by T.A. Shippey
  • Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode by J.R.R. Tolkien, editor Alan Bliss

• E.D. Hirsch

  • On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism by Jonathan Culler

• Norman Stone

  • The Invention of Tradition edited by Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger

• William Lamont

  • Charles I and the Popish Plot by Caroline Hibbard
  • Charles I: The Personal Monarch by Charles Carlton
  • The Puritan Moment: The Coming of Revolution in an English County by William Hunt

• Matthew Sweeney
  Poem: ‘Imagined Arrival’

• Christian Hesketh

  • Northampton: Patronage and Policy at the Court of James I by Linda Levy Peck

• Frank Kermode
  Diary

• Philip Horne

  • A Nail on the Head by Clare Boylan
  • New Stories 8: An Arts Council Anthology edited by Karl Miller
  • The Handyman by Penelope Mortimer
  • Open the Door by Rosemary Manning
  • A Boy’s Own Story by Edmund White