Cover: Don McCullin

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Jonathan Barnes
• Alan Bennett
• Alan Donagan
• Stuart Hampshire
• Michael Hofmann
• Dan Jacobson
• John Kerrigan
• Michael Mason
• Peter Medawar
• Margaret Moore
• Randolph Quirk
• Richard Rorty
• Edward Said
• Ann Schlee
• C.H. Sisson
• J.P. Stern

Contents

• Dan Jacobson
  The Boer-Lover

• Letters
  Anthony Sheil, Julietta Harvey, Daniel Eilon, Peter Davison, Editors, ‘London Review’

• Richard Rorty

  • Margins of Philosophy by Jacques Derrida, translated by Alan Bass

• Stuart Hampshire

  • Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges

• Michael Mason

  • Darwin’s Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and 19th-Century Fiction by Gillian Beer

• Jonathan Barnes

  • Science, Folklore and Ideology by G.E.R. Lloyd

• Randolph Quirk
  1984 and ‘1984’

• Peter Medawar

  • A Time to Remember: The Autobiography of a Chemist by Alexander Todd

• Margaret Moore
  Poem: ‘Lifestyle’

• Edward Said

  • Israel in Lebanon: The Report of the International Commission by Sean MacBride
  • Sabra et Chatila: Enquête sur un Massacre by Amnon Kapeliouk
  • Final Conflict: The War in the Lebanon by John Bulloch
  • Lebanon: The Fractured Country by David Gilmour
  • The Tragedy of Lebanon: Christian Warlords, Israeli Adventures and American Bunglers by Jonathan Randal
  • God cried by Tony Clifton and Catherine Leroy
  • Beirut: Frontline Story by Salim Nassib, Caroline Tisdall and Chris Steele-Perkins
  • The Fateful Triangle: Israel, the United States and the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky

• J.P. Stern

  • Adolf Hitler: The Medical Diaries. The Private Diaries of Dr Theo Morell edited by David Irving

• Alan Donagan

  • Justice at Nuremberg by Robert Conot
  • The Nuremberg Trial by Ann Tusa and John Tusa

• Ann Schlee

  • Eight Feet in the Andes by Dervla Murphy
  • West African Passage: A Journey through Nigeria, Chad and the Cameroons by Margery Perham, edited by A.H.M. Kirk-Greene
  • India File by Trevor Fishlock
  • Castaway: A Story of Survival by Lucy Irvine
  • In Search of the Sahara by Quentin Crewe

• Michael Hofmann
  Poem: ‘In the Realm of the Senses’

• C.H. Sisson

  • The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh edited by Donat Gallagher

• Alan Bennett
  Diary

• John Kerrigan

  • The Oxford Book of Narrative Verse edited by Iona Opie and Peter Opie
  • Time’s Oriel by Kevin Crossley-Holland
  • On Gender and Writing edited by Michelene Wandor
  • Stone, Paper, Knife by Marge Piercy
  • The Achievement of Ted Hughes edited by Keith Sagar
  • Ted Hughes and Paul Muldoon
  • River by Ted Hughes and Peter Keen
  • Quoof by Paul Muldoon