Cover: John Topham

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Neal Ascherson
• Michael Black
• Denis Donoghue
• Paul Ginsborg
• Thom Gunn
• Patricia Highsmith
• Frank Honigsbaum
• D.A.N. Jones
• Iain McGilchrist
• W.G. Runciman
• Conrad Russell
• Richard Usborne
• Hugo Williams
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Neal Ascherson

  • Family Portrait with Fidel by Carlos Franqui, translated by Alfred MacAdam
  • Infante’s Inferno by G. Cabrera Infante, translated by Suzanne Levine

• Letters
  Paul Milican, Anthony Arblaster, Alan Weston, Bjarne G. Nilsen, Hyam Maccoby, Chris Peachment, J. Hevesi

• Iain McGilchrist

  • Doctors: The Lives and Work of GPs by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy
  • Bulimarexia: The Binge/Purge Cycle by Marlene Boskind-White and William White

• Frank Honigsbaum

  • Roche versus Adams by Stanley Adams
  • Prescriptions for Death: The Drugging of the Third World by Milton Silverman, Philip Lee and Mia Lydecker
  • The Pharmaceutical Industry and Dependency in the Third World by Gary Gereffi
  • Corporate Crime in the Pharmaceutical Industry by John Braithwaite

• Michael Black
  D.H. Lawrence and Gilbert Noon

• Hugo Williams
  Poem: ‘Shelf Life’

• Patricia Highsmith

  • Intimate Memoirs, including ‘Marie-Jo’s Book’ by Georges Simenon, translated by Harold Salemson

• D.A.N. Jones

  • Lincoln by Gore Vidal
  • Stars and Bars by William Boyd

• Thom Gunn
  Poem: ‘Lament’

• Michael Wood

  • In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women by Alice Walker
  • Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
  • Democracy by Joan Didion

• Paul Ginsborg
  Berlinguer’s Legacy

• W.G. Runciman

  • The Theory of Communicative Action. Vol. One: Reason and the Rationalisation of Society by Jurgen Habermas, translated by Thomas McCarthy

• Conrad Russell

  • The Experience of Defeat: Milton and Some Contemporaries by Christopher Hill

• Richard Usborne
  Diary

• Denis Donoghue

  • A Wave by John Ashbery
  • Secret Narratives by Andrew Motion
  • Liberty Tree by Tom Paulin
  • 111 Poems by Christopher Middleton
  • New and Selected Poems by James Michie
  • By the Fisheries by Jeremy Reed
  • Voyages by George Mackay Brown