Cover: Fernand Léger

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Neal Ascherson
• John Bayley
• James Campbell
• Arnold Davidson
• Rosemary Dinnage
• Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
• John Lucas
• Michael Mason
• Patrick Mauriès
• George Miller
• Slawomir Mrozek
• Nicholas Penny
• J.P. Stern
• Mariusz Ziomecki

Contents

• Neal Ascherson

  • French and Germans, Germans and French: A Personal Interpretation of France under Two Occupations, 1914-1918/1940-1944 by Richard Cobb
  • Still Life: Scenes from a Tunbridge Wells Childhood by Richard Cobb

• Letters
  Jonathan Wordsworth, Editor, ‘London Review of Books’, Park Honan, John Maynard, Kate Graham, Isabel Jacobs, Editors, ‘London Review’

• Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

  • Léon Blum by Jean Lacouture, translated by George Holoch

• John Bayley

  • Alexander Pushkin: Complete Prose Fiction by Paul Debreczeny, translated by Walter Arndt
  • The Other Pushkin: A Study of Alexander Pushkin’s Prose Fiction by Paul Debreczeny

• J.P. Stern

  • The Sacred Threshold: A Life of Rainer Maria Rilke by J.F. Hendry
  • Rilke: sein Leben, seine Welt, sein Werk by Wolfgang Leppmann
  • Rainer Maria Rilke: Leben und Werk im Bild edited by Ingeborg Schnack

• Slawomir Mrozek
  Poem: ‘To the Management of the Louver Museum, Abroad’

• Mariusz Ziomecki
  Solidarity’s Poet

• John Lucas

  • The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Péguy by Geoffrey Hill

• Arnold Davidson

  • Freud and Man’s Soul by Bruno Bettelheim

• George Miller

  • Mental Models: Towards a Cognitive Science of Language, Inference and Consciousness by P.N. Johnson-Laird

• Michael Mason

  • John Forster: A Literary Life by James Davies
  • Mr George Eliot: A Biography of George Henry Lewes by David Williams
  • Johnnie Cross by Terence de Vere White

• Rosemary Dinnage

  • Cold Heaven by Brian Moore
  • Time After Time by Molly Keane
  • Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin
  • August by Judith Rossner
  • Kiss of Life by Keith Colquhoun

• Patrick Mauriès
  Diary

• Nicholas Penny

  • Constable: The Painter and his Landscape by Michael Rosenthal
  • Constable’s England by Graham Reynolds

• James Campbell

  • Bad Blood: A Family Murder by Richard Levine
  • The Glasgow Rape Case by Ross Harper and Arnot McWhinnie
  • Notes from a Waiting-Room by Alan Reeve