Cover: Diane Arbus

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Stuart Airlie
• Neal Ascherson
• Hugh Barnes
• Bernard Bergonzi
• R.J. Berry
• Penny Boumelha
• Marilyn Butler
• Paul Delany
• Penelope Gilliatt
• Roy Harris
• Arthur Marwick
• Andrew Motion
• Anthony Pagden
• Patrick Parrinder
• Tom Paulin
• John Ryle
• David Widgery
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Neal Ascherson

  • The Rise and Fall of the Political Press in Britain. Vol. II: The 20th Century by Stephen Koss
  • Lies, Damned Lies and Some Exclusives by Henry Porter
  • Garvin of the ‘Observer’ by David Ayerst
  • The Beaverbrook I Knew edited by Logan Gourlay

• Letters
  Christopher Driver, Geoffrey Hartman, George Watson, Joseph Rykwert

• Marilyn Butler

  • Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie

• Andrew Motion
  Poem: ‘Firing Practice’

• John Ryle

  • Killing for Company: The Case of Dennis Nilsen by Brian Masters
  • Queens by Pickles
  • Ritualised Homosexuality in Melanesia edited by Gilbert Herdt

• David Widgery

  • John Winston Lennon. Vol. I: 1940-1966 by Ray Coleman
  • John Ono Lennon. Vol. II: 1967-1980 by Ray Coleman
  • John Lennon, Summer of 1980 by Yoko Ono

• Tom Paulin
  Poem: ‘At Mill with Slaves’

• Penny Boumelha

  • Diane Arbus: A Biography by Patricia Bosworth
  • Inside the Onion by Howard Nemerov

• Penelope Gilliatt

  • The ‘Vogue’ Bedside Book edited by Josephine Ross
  • The Art of Zandra Rhodes by Anne Knight and Zandra Rhodes

• Hugh Barnes

  • So Much Love by Beryl Reid
  • Knock wood by Candice Bergen

• Paul Delany

  • Modern Times by Peter York
  • Face Value: The Politics of Beauty by Robin Tolmach Lakoff and Raquel Scherr

• Stuart Airlie

  • Chivalry by Maurice Keen
  • The Rise of Romance by Eugène Vinaver
  • War in the Middle Ages by Philippe Contamine, translated by Michael Jones
  • War and Government in the Middle Ages edited by John Gillingham and J.C. Holt
  • Prussian Society and the German Order by Michael Burleigh

• Anthony Pagden

  • Settecento Riformatore. Vol. IV: La Caduta dell’Antico Regime 1776-1789. Part One: I Grandi Staii dell’Occidente by Franco Venturi
  • Settecento Riformatore. Vol. IV: La Caduta dell’Antico Regime 1776-1789. Part Two: II Patriotismo Repubblicano e gli Imperi dell’Est by Franco Venturi
  • Rousseau, Dreamer of Democracy by James Miller

• R.J. Berry

  • Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology
  • Human Procreation: Ethical Aspects of the New Techniques
  • The Redundant Male by Jeremy Cherfas and John Gribbin
  • Begotten of Made? Human Procreation and Medical Technique by Oliver O’Donovan

• Roy Harris

  • Longman Dictionary of the English Language by Randolph Quirk
  • The Private Lives of English Words by Louis Heller, Alexander Humez and Malcah Dror
  • The Penguin Dictionary of Troublesome Words by Bill Bryson
  • The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots by Joseph Shipley
  • A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English by Eric Partidge and Paul Beale

• Michael Wood

  • The Dark Hole Days by Una Woods
  • Superior Women by Alice Adams
  • The Collected Stories by Frank Tuohy
  • The Apple in the Dark by Clarice Lispector, translated by Gregory Rabassa
  • Family Ties by Clarice Lispector and Giovanni Pontiero

• Arthur Marwick
  Diary

• Patrick Parrinder

  • Garden, Ashes by Danilo Kis, translated by William Hannaher
  • Star Turn by Nigel Williams
  • On Glory’s Course by James Purdy

• Bernard Bergonzi

  • The Turning Key: Autobiography and the Subjective Impulse since 1800 by Jerome Hamilton Buckley
  • The Art of Autobiography in 19th and 20th-Century England by A.O.J. Cockshut