Cover: Mikhail Nappelbaum

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Brian Barry
• Jon Elster
• P.N. Furbank
• Nadine Gordimer
• Brian Harrison
• Geoffrey Hawthorn
• Seamus Heaney
• Michael Ignatieff
• D.A.N. Jones
• Robert McCrum
• Jane Miller
• Michael Neve
• W.G. Runciman
• C.H. Sisson
• Jonathan Steinberg
• E.S. Turner
• D.G. Wright

Contents

• Jonathan Steinberg

  • Kissinger: The Price of Power by Seymour Hersh

• Letters
  Paul Cartledge, J.F.G. Shearmur, Norman Stevenson, Brian Louis Pearce, Joan Givner, Jocelyn Rickards, Richard Martin, Liz Calder, Pierre Broué, Philippa McEwan

• Jon Elster

  • An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change by Richard Nelson and Sidney Winter
  • A General Theory of Exploitation and Class by John Roemer

• Brian Barry

  • Explaining Technical Change: A Case-Study in the Philosophy of Science by Jon Elster
  • Sour Grapes: Studies in the Subversion of Rationality by Jon Elster

• Geoffrey Hawthorn

  • In Breach of Promise by John Vaizey

• E.S. Turner

  • The Man who was Greenmantle: A Biography of Aubrey Herbert by Margaret FitzHerbert
  • A Classic Connection by Michael Seth-Smith

• W.G. Runciman

  • Inside the Inner City by Paul Harrison
  • Brighton on the Rocks: Monetarism and the Local State
  • The Wealth Report edited by Frank Field

• Brian Harrison

  • Sure and Stedfast: A History of the Boys’ Brigade, 1883-1984 edited by John Springhall

• D.G. Wright

  • Hooligan: A History of Respectable Fears by Geoffrey Pearson

• Seamus Heaney
  Three Poems

• Jane Miller

  • Ways with Words: Language, Life and Work in Communities and Classrooms by Shirley Brice Heath

• C.H. Sisson

  • Elizabeth R.: A Biography by Elizabeth Longford
  • Aristocrats by Robert Lacey
  • The Cult of the Prince Consort by Elizabeth Darby and Nicola Smith

• D.A.N. Jones

  • The Good Father by Peter Prince
  • Mrs Pooter’s Diary by Keith Waterhouse and John Jensen
  • Dandiprat’s Days by David Thomson
  • The Dream of a Beast by Neil Jordan
  • Squeak: A Biography of NPA 1978A 203 by John Bowen and Eric Fraser
  • The Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee

• Robert McCrum

  • The Vanishing Hitchhiker: Urban Legends and their Meanings by Jan Harold Brunvand

• Michael Neve

  • Flashbacks by Timothy Leary
  • Freud and Cocaine by E.M. Thornton
  • Right-Wing Women: The Politics of Domesticated Females by Andrea Dworkin
  • Hidden Selves: Between Theory and Practice in Psychoanalysis by Masud Khan

• Nadine Gordimer
  Letter from his Father

• Michael Ignatieff
  Diary

• P.N. Furbank

  • Maiden Voyage A Voice Through a Cloud by Denton Welch