Cover: Allen Jones

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Peter Barham
• Jonathan Barnes
• John Bayley
• Peter Campbell
• Paul Foot
• R.W. Johnson
• Keith Kyle
• Leo Marx
• Robert Melville
• Hubert Moore
• Blake Morrison
• Nicholas Penny
• John Romer
• Malise Ruthven
• Edward Said
• Paul Seabright
• Nicholas Spice
• E.S. Turner

Contents

• Edward Said reflects on the fall of Beirut

• Letters
  Hilary Gaskin, E. Barlow, Sam Miller, Barbara Everett, Dennis Walder, Douglas Dunn, C. Lewy, A.J. Dale

• Keith Kyle

  • Eisenhower. Vol. I: Soldier, General of the Army, President-Elect 1890-1952 Vol. II: The President 1952-1969 by Stephen Ambrose
  • Ike’s Letters to a Friend: 1941-1958 edited by Robert Griffith

• E.S. Turner

  • Hitler’s Rockets: The Story of the V-2s by Norman Longmate

• R.W. Johnson

  • The Pick of Paul Johnson: An Anthology

• Blake Morrison
  Poem: ‘The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper’

• Nicholas Spice

  • Crampton Hodnet by Barbara Pym
  • Foreign Land by Jonathan Raban
  • Black Marina by Emma Tennant

• Peter Barham

  • Wisdom, Madness and Folly: The Making of a Psychiatrist by R.D. Laing

• John Bayley

  • Multiple Personality and the Disintegration of Literary Character by Jeremy Hawthorn
  • Doubles: Studies in Literary History by Karl Miller
  • The Doubleman by C.J. Koch

• Paul Seabright

  • Passion: An Essay on Personality by Roberto Mangabeira Unger
  • The Needs of Strangers by Michael Ignatieff

• Jonathan Barnes

  • Greek Religion: Archaic and Classical by Walter Burkert, translated by John Raffan

• Hubert Moore
  Poem: ‘Noises Off’

• John Romer

  • Akhenaten: The Heretic King by Donald Redford

• Peter Campbell

  • Degas: His Life, Times and Work by Roy McMullen
  • Degas: The Dancers by George Shackelford
  • Degas Pastels, Oil Sketches, Drawings by Götz Adriani
  • Bricabracomania: The Bourgeois and the Bibelot by Rémy de Saisselin

• Robert Melville

  • Kenneth Clark: A Biography by Meryle Secrest

• Nicholas Penny

  • The Ravished Image: Or, How to Ruin Masterpieces by Restoration by Sarah Walden

• Leo Marx

  • Frost: A Literary Life Reconsidered by William Pritchard

• Paul Foot
  Diary

• Malise Ruthven

  • Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuściński, translated by William Brand
  • The Pride and the Fall: Iran 1974-1979 by Anthony Parsons
  • Iran under the Ayatollahs by Dilip Hiro
  • Obbligato: Notes on a Foreign Service Career by William Sullivan
  • Envoy to the Middle World: Adventures in Diplomacy by George McGhee
  • The Persians amongst the English by Denis Wright