Cover: Balthus

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Bayley
• Maurice Bloch
• Alan Brownjohn
• David Cannadine
• Sydney Checkland
• S.E.G Curtis
• Penelope Gilliatt
• Ian Hamilton
• Jose Harris
• Aidan Higgins
• Dan Jacobson
• D.A.N. Jones
• Frank Kermode
• Peter Lamarque
• Onora O’Neill
• Claude Rawson
• Paul Rogers
• Pat Rogers
• J.I.M. Stewart

Contents

• David Cannadine

  • King George V by Kenneth Rose

• Letters
  John McDowell, Linda Levy Peck, Marilyn Butler, Nicolas Walter, Robert Wilcocks

• Frank Kermode

  • The Forties: From the Notebooks and Diaries of the Period by Edmund Wilson, edited with an introduction by Leon Edel
  • The Portable Edmund Wilson edited by Lewis Dabney
  • To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson

• Alan Brownjohn
  Poem: ‘In a Restaurant’

• S.E.G Curtis
  Poem: ‘Colleague’

• Penelope Gilliatt

  • The Road to Tara: The Life of Margaret Mitchell by Anne Edwards

• Onora O’Neill

  • Feminism by John Charvet
  • Women, Reason and Nature by Carol McMillan

• Jose Harris

  • Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the 19th Century by Barbara Taylor
  • Virgins and Viragos: A History of Women in Scotland from 1080 to 1980 by Rosalind Marshall

• John Bayley

  • The Russian Revolutionary Novel: Turgenev to Pasternak by Richard Freeborn
  • Boris Pasternak: His Life and Art by Guy de Mallac
  • Pasternak: A Biography by Ronald Hingley
  • Selected Poems by Boris Pasternak, translated by Jon Stallworthy and Peter France
  • Poets of Modern Russia by Peter France
  • Russian Literature since the Revolution by Edward Brown

• Maurice Bloch

  • Karl Marx Collective: Economy, Society and Religion in a Siberian Collective Farm by Caroline Humphrey

• Dan Jacobson

  • Final Judgment: My Life as a Soviet Defence Lawyer by Dina Kaminskaya, translated by Michael Glenny
  • Memoirs by Petro Grigorenko, translated by Thomas Whitney
  • Notes of a Revolutionary by Andrei Amalrik

• Paul Rogers
  The Road to Goose Green

• Sydney Checkland

  • Exploring the Urban Past: Essays in Urban History by H.J. Dyos edited by David Cannadine and David Reeder
  • Themes in Urban History: Patricians, Power and Politics in 19th-Century Towns edited by David Cannadine

• Peter Lamarque

  • The Critical Historians of Art by Michael Podro
  • A World History of Art by Hugh Honour and John Fleming
  • The Test of Time: An Essay in Philosophical Aesthetics by Anthony Savile

• J.I.M. Stewart

  • M.R. James: An Informal Portrait by Michael Cox

• Pat Rogers

  • Shame by Salman Rushdie
  • Scandal by A.N. Wilson
  • Love and Glory by Melvyn Bragg
  • The Complete Knowledge of Sally Fry by Sylvia Murphy

• Claude Rawson

  • The Borrowers Avenged by Mary Norton

• Ian Hamilton
  Diary

• D.A.N. Jones

  • George Borrow: Eccentric by Michael Collie
  • A World of his Own: The Double Life of George Borrow by David Williams
  • Eothen: Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East by Alexander Kinglake and Jan Morris
  • Eothen by Alexander Kinglake and Jonathan Raban

• Aidan Higgins
  Beneath the Ice-Shelf