CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Martin Amis
• David Cannadine
• Michael Davie
• P.N. Furbank
• Arthur Gavshon
• Richard Hyman
• Frank Kermode
• John Levett
• Sam Miller
• Patrick Parrinder
• M.F. Perutz
• Brian Pippard
• Peter Pulzer
• Christopher Ricks
• Michael Stewart
• Bernard Williams

Contents

• David Cannadine

  • The BBC: The First 50 Years by Asa Briggs
  • The Collected Essays of Asa Briggs. Vol. I: Words, Numbers, Places, People
  • The Collected Essays of Asa Briggs. Vol. II: Images, Problems, Standpoints, Forecasts
  • The 19th Century: The Contradictions of Progress edited by Asa Briggs

• Letters
  Tom Paulin, A.C. Bramwell, Paul Overy, Derek Freeman, Charles Plouviez, John Haffenden, Michael Moorcock, Editors, ‘London Review’

• Bernard Williams

  • Ordinary Vices by Judith Shklar
  • Immorality by Ronald Milo

• M.F. Perutz

  • The Limits of Science by Peter Medawar

• Brian Pippard

  • Science and the Modern World by A.N. Whitehead

• Christopher Ricks

  • The English Language Today edited by Sidney Greenbaum
  • The English Language by Robert Burchfield
  • A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language by Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvik
  • Words by John Silverlight
  • Faux Amis and Key Words: A Dictionary-Guide to French Language, Culture and Society through Lookalikes and Confusables by Philip Thody, Howard Evans and Gwilym Rees
  • Puns by Walter Redfern
  • Fair of Speech: The Uses of Euphemism edited by D.J. Enright

• Martin Amis
  Bujak and the Strong Force

• Frank Kermode

  • The Oxford Companion to English Literature edited by Margaret Drabble

• John Levett
  Three Poems

• Michael Davie

  • The Airman and the Carpenter: The Lindbergh Case and the Framing of Richard Hauptmann by Ludovic Kennedy

• Sam Miller
  Grimethorpe Now

• Richard Hyman takes part in the post-mortem on the miners’ strike

  • Digging Deeper: Issues in the Miners’ Strike edited by Huw Beynon
  • Policing the Miners’ Strike edited by Bob Fine and Robert Millar
  • The Strike: An Insider’s Story by Roy Ottey
  • Scargill and the Miners by Michael Crick
  • The Great Strike: The Miners’ Strike of 1984-5 and its Lessons by Alex Callinicos and Mike Simons

• Peter Pulzer

  • The Conservative Party from Peel to Thatcher by Robert Blake
  • Westminster Blues by Julian Critchley

• Arthur Gavshon

  • The Falklands War: Lessons for Strategy, Diplomacy and International Law edited by Alberto Coll and Anthony Arend

• Michael Stewart
  Diary

• Patrick Parrinder

  • Quinx or The Ripper’s Tale by Lawrence Durrell
  • Helliconia Winter by Brian Aldiss
  • Black Robe by Brian Moore

• P.N. Furbank

  • Peterley Harvest: The Private Diary of David Peterley edited by Michael Holroyd