Cover: Henri Matisse

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• David Blackbourn
• Alan Brinkley
• Linda Colley
• Michael Davie
• Seamus Heaney
• David Hoy
• Michael Ignatieff
• Harold James
• Gareth Stedman Jones
• D.A.N. Jones
• V.G. Kiernan
• Paul Muldoon
• Christopher Ricks
• John Willett
• J.M. Winter

Contents

• Christopher Ricks

  • T.S. Eliot by Peter Ackroyd
  • Recollections Mainly of Artists and Writers by Geoffrey Grigson

• Letters
  Tobias Abse, Andrew Robinson, R.J. Horesh, Richard Garnett, David Jenkins, Axel Clark

• Michael Davie

  • Public Scandal, Odium and Contempt: An Investigation of Recent Libel Cases by David Hooper

• Alan Brinkley
  America is back

• David Hoy

  • Philosophy in France Today edited by Alan Montefiore
  • French Literary Theory Today: A Reader edited by Tzvetan Todorov, translated by R. Carter
  • Histoire de la Sexualité. Vol. II: L’Usage des Plaisirs by Michel Foucault
  • Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics by Hubert Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow
  • The Foucault Reader edited by Paul Rabinow
  • Michel Foucault and the Subversion of Intellect by Karlis Racevskis
  • Michel Foucault’s Archaeology of Western Culture: Toward a New Science of History by Pamela Major-Poetzl
  • Michel Foucault: Social Theory as Transgression by Charles Lemert and Garth Gillan
  • Foucault, Marxism and Critique by Barry Smart

• Seamus Heaney
  Two Poems

• John Willett

  • Russian Constructivism by Christina Lodder

• David Blackbourn

  • The Nazi Machtergreifung edited by Peter Stachura
  • Stormtroopers: A Social, Economic and Ideological Analysis 1929-35 by Conan Fischer
  • The Nazi Party: A Social Profile of Members and Leaders 1919-1945 by Michael Kater
  • Beating the Fascists: The German Communists and Political Violence 1929-1933 by Eve Rosenhaft

• Harold James

  • My Life by Richard Wagner, translated by Andrew Gray, edited by Mary Whittall
  • Untimely Meditations by Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by R.J. Hollingdale, with an introduction by J.P. Stern
  • Wagner: A Case-History by Martin von Amerongen

• Gareth Stedman Jones

  • Proletarian Philosophers: Problems in Socialist Culture in Britain 1900-1940 by Jonathan Rée

• J.M. Winter

  • The Labour Governments: 1945-51 by Henry Pelling

• V.G. Kiernan

  • A Radical Reader: The Struggle for Change in England 1381-1914 edited by Christopher Hampton
  • Riots and Community Politics in England and Wales 1790-1810 by John Bohstedt
  • The World We have Lost – Further Explored by Peter Laslett

• Linda Colley

  • The Origins of Anglo-American Radicalism edited by Margaret Jacob and James Jacob
  • Insurrection: The British Experience 1795-1803 by Roger Wells
  • Radicalism and Freethought in 19th-Century Britain by Joel Wiener
  • For King, Constitution and Country: The English Loyalists and the French Revolution by Robert Dozier

• Paul Muldoon

  • Station Island by Seamus Heaney
  • Sweeney Astray: A Version by Seamus Heaney
  • Rich by Craig Raine

• Michael Ignatieff
  Diary

• D.A.N. Jones

  • Ironweed by William Kennedy
  • In Custody by Anita Desai
  • Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes