CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Daniel Aaron
• Julian Barnes
• Hugh Barnes
• Bruce Bawer
• John Bayley
• Alan Brinkley
• Michael Foley
• Philip French
• Peter Jenkins
• David Jones
• Karl Miller
• Alan Milward
• Peter Porter
• Peter Robb
• John Ryle
• Betty Wood

Contents

• Alan Milward

  • Hitler and the Final Solution by Gerald Fleming
  • Hitler in History by Eberhard Jäckel
  • Albert Speer: The End of a Myth by Matthias Schmidt, translated by Joachim Neugroschel

• Letters
  Craig Raine, Barbara Everett, Peter Pulzer, Waldemar Januszczak, Editor, ‘London Review of Books’

• John Ryle
  The Coup in Sudan

• Peter Jenkins on the death of the Welfare State

  • Founders of the Welfare State edited by Paul Barker
  • The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith

• Alan Brinkley

  • God in America: Religion and Politics in the United States by Furio Colombo, translated by Kristin Jarrat
  • The Old Christian Right: The Protestant Far Right from the Great Depression to the Cold War by Leo Ribuffo

• Philip French

  • Orwell: The War Broadcasts edited by W.J. West

• Michael Foley

  • Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories by Raymond Carver
  • The Stories of Raymond Carver

• David Jones

  • Motel Chronicles and Hawk Moon by Sam Shepard
  • Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders and Sam Shepard

• Peter Robb
  Poem: ‘Curriculum Vitae’

• Daniel Aaron

  • The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty, with an introduction by Helen McNeil
  • One Writer’s Beginnings by Eudora Welty
  • The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
  • Conversations with Eudora Welty edited by Peggy Whitman Prenshaw

• Bruce Bawer

  • Invented Lives: F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald by James Mellow
  • Home before Dark: A Personal Memoir of John Cheever by Susan Cheever

• Betty Wood

  • The Limits of Liberty: American History 1607-1980 by Maldwyn Jones
  • America: A Narrative History by Charles Brown Tindall
  • The Longman History of the United States by Hugh Brogan
  • American Tough: The Tough-Guy Tradition and American Character by Rupert Wilkinson

• Julian Barnes

  • A Classical Education by Richard Cobb
  • Still Life: Sketches from a Tunbridge Wells Childhood by Richard Cobb

• John Bayley

  • Letters of Dorothy Wordsworth: A Selection edited by Alan Hill
  • Dorothy Wordsworth by Robert Gittings and Jo Manton
  • The Pedlar, Tintern Abbey, The Two-Part Prelude by William Wordsworth, edited by Jonathan Wordsworth
  • The Ruined Cottage, The Brothers, Michael by William Wordsworth, edited by Jonathan Wordsworth

• Karl Miller
  Diary

• Hugh Barnes

  • Towards the End of the Morning by Michael Frayn
  • Sweet Dreams by Michael Frayn
  • The Fall of Kelvin Walker by Alasdair Gray
  • Lean Tales by James Kelman, Agnes Owens and Alasdair Gray
  • Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr
  • Family Dancing by David Leavitt
  • The Whitbread Stories: One by Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson

• Peter Porter
  Poem: ‘Sticking to the text’