Cover: Thomas Rowlandson after Samuel Collings

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• David Allen
• Gabriele Annan
• Neal Ascherson
• Alan Bennett
• Susannah Clapp
• Patricia Craig
• Arnold Davidson
• Denis Donoghue
• Irvin Ehrenpreis
• Peter Gwyn
• Jose Harris
• Clive James
• Peter Jenkins
• D.A.N. Jones
• Michael Neve
• Peter Porter
• Alok Rai
• Michael Stewart

Contents

• Neal Ascherson

  • James Boswell: The Later Years 1769-1795 by Frank Brady

• Letters
  Joseph Rykwert, Ursula Owen, Arturo Escobosa, Redactor, ‘London Review of Books’, Katy Nicholson

• Irvin Ehrenpreis

  • Samuel Johnson by Walter Jackson Bate
  • A Preliminary Handlist of Copies of Books Associated with Dr Samuel Johnson by J.D. Fleeman
  • Samuel Johnson 1709-84: A Bicentenary Exhibition edited by K.K. Yung
  • Samuel Johnson by Donald Greene

• Peter Porter
  Three Poems

• Denis Donoghue

  • Nineteen Eighty-Four: Facsimile Edition by George Orwell, edited by Peter Davison
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, edited by Bernard Crick
  • Inside the Myth. Orwell: Views from the Left edited by Christopher Norris
  • The Crystal Spirit: A Study of George Orwell by George Woodcock
  • Orwell’s London by John Thompson

• Jose Harris

  • Neville Chamberlain. Vol. I: 1869-1929 by David Dilks

• Clive James
  Poem: ‘Echo echo echo’

• Michael Stewart

  • The Castle Diaries. Vol. II: 1964-70 by Barbara Castle

• David Allen

  • The John Tradescants: Gardeners to the Rose and Lily Queen by Prudence Leith-Ross
  • Sydney Parkinson: Artist of Cook’s ‘Endeavour’ Voyage edited by D.J. Carr

• Patricia Craig

  • The man who was M: The Life of Maxwell Knight by Anthony Masters
  • Unreliable Witness: Espionage Myths of the Second World War by Nigel West
  • The Great Betrayal: The Untold Story of Kim Philby’s Biggest Coup by Nicholas Bethell

• Peter Jenkins

  • Antipolitics: An Essay by George Konrad, translated by Richard Allen

• Alok Rai
  Indira’s India

• Gabriele Annan

  • The Ledge between the Streams by Ved Mehta

• Peter Gwyn

  • Reformation and Revolution 1558-1660 by Robert Ashton
  • The Reformation and the English People by J.J. Scarisbrick

• Arnold Davidson

  • Themes out of School: Causes and Effects by Stanley Cavell

• D.A.N. Jones

  • Last Ferry to Manly by Jill Neville
  • Down from the Hill by Alan Sillitoe
  • God knows by Joseph Heller
  • Wilt on High by Tom Sharpe

• Susannah Clapp

  • Charlotte Mew and her Friends by Penelope Fitzgerald
  • The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield. Vol. I: 1903-17 edited by Vincent O’Sullivan and Margaret Scott

• Alan Bennett
  Diary

• Michael Neve

  • A Darker Shade of Pale: A Backdrop to Bob Dylan by Wilfrid Mellers
  • Dylan by Jonathan Cott