Cover: Giambattista Tiepolo

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Stephen Bann
• Maurice Bloch
• Malcolm Bowie
• Matthew Coady
• Arnold Davidson
• Paul Foot
• Ronald Gaskell
• Jose Harris
• Clive James
• D.A.N. Jones
• Stephen Koss
• Lachlan Mackinnon
• David Marquand
• Naomi May
• Conrad Russell
• C.H. Sisson
• Nicholas Spice
• J.I.M. Stewart
• Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Contents

• Paul Foot

  • Smoke Ring: The Politics of Tobacco by Peter Taylor

• Letters
  David Lodge, Marilyn Butler, Robert Giroux, Maureen Bell, Blair Worden, L.N. Spencer, Lawrence Hogben, James MacGibbon, Barry Shenker, Salman Rushdie, Tom Paulin, Meryle Secrest

• Matthew Coady

  • Sources Close to the Prime Minister: Inside the Hidden World of the News Manipulators by Michael Cockerell, and David Walker

• David Marquand

  • Controlling the Economic Future: Policy Dilemmas in a Shrinking World by Michael Stewart
  • In Defence of the Mixed Economy by Andrew Shonfield, edited by Zuzanna Shonfield
  • The Welfare State in Crisis: Social Thought and Social Change by Ramesh Mishra

• Clive James
  Poem: ‘A Gesture towards James Joyce’

• Lachlan Mackinnon
  Poem: ‘Hopkins in Wales’

• C.H. Sisson

  • Random Variables by Lord Rothschild

• Arnold Davidson

  • Freud: The Assault on Truth by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

• Jose Harris

  • H.G. Wells: Aspects of a Life by Anthony West
  • Heritage by Anthony West

• Stephen Koss

  • Margot: A Life of the Countess of Oxford and Asquith by Daphne Bennett

• Conrad Russell

  • The Young Richelieu: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Leadership by Elizabeth Wirth Marvick
  • Richelieu and Olivares by J.H. Elliott

• Ruth Bernard Yeazell

  • The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford: 1836-1854 edited by Meredith Raymond and Mary Rose Sullivan
  • Love and the Woman Question in Victorian Literature: The Art of Self-Postponement by Kathleen Blake

• Ronald Gaskell
  Poem: ‘Teach yourself Italian’

• J.I.M. Stewart

  • Oscar Browning: A Biography by Ian Anstruther

• Nicholas Spice

  • Him with his foot in his mouth, and Other Stories by Saul Bellow

• Stephen Bann

  • Time in a Red Coat by George Mackay Brown
  • Harland’s Half-Acre by David Malouf
  • The Border by Elaine Feinstein

• Maurice Bloch

  • The Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe by Jack Goody

• Naomi May
  Visitors

• Malcolm Bowie on the shimmer of transcendence

  • A Mania for Sentences by D.J. Enright
  • The Mirror of Criticism: Selected Reviews 1977-1982 by Gabriel Josipovici
  • In the Age of Prose: Literary and Philosophical Essays by Erich Heller

• D.A.N. Jones
  Diary