Cover: Christopher Killip

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• William Boyd
• Angus Calder
• Michael Church
• David Craig
• Patricia Craig
• Stuart Hampshire
• Walter Kendrick
• Frank Kermode
• Colin McGinn
• Lachlan Mackinnon
• Karl Miller
• Peter Pulzer
• Oliver Reynolds
• Conrad Russell
• T.M. Scanlon
• Paul Seabright
• Michael Stewart
• John Sutherland
• A.J.P. Taylor
• Raleigh Trevelyan

Contents

• Peter Pulzer

  • The Decline of Power: 1915-1964 by Robert Blake

• Letters
  Jenny Koralek, Francis Scarfe, Jim Porteous, Martin Dodsworth, Editor, ‘London Review of Books’, Michael Longley, John Cronquist, Rupert Lancaster, John Spiers, Paul Collins, Nicholas Penny, René Olivieri

• William Boyd

  • The Randlords: The Men who made South Africa by Geoffrey Wheatcroft

• Angus Calder, a visitor to Uganda in June, gives his impressions of the life he found in Kampala on the eve of the country’s latest coup

• David Craig
  Climbing

• Patricia Craig

  • Ascendancy and Tradition in Anglo-Irish Literary History from 1789 to 1939 by W.J. McCormack
  • Across a Roaring Hill edited by Gerald Dawe and Edna Longley
  • Celtic Revivals: Essays in Modern Irish Literature 1880-1980 by Seamus Deane
  • Escape from the Anthill by Hubert Butler

• Walter Kendrick

  • The Confessions of Victor X edited by Donald Rayfield
  • Novel with Cocaine by M. Ageyev, translated by Michael Henry Heim

• Raleigh Trevelyan
  Two Ediths and a Hermit

• Frank Kermode

  • Family and Friends by Anita Brookner

• Michael Church

  • The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams by Donald Spoto
  • Tennessee Williams on File by Catherine Arnott

• Karl Miller

  • The Old Forest by Peter Taylor

• Oliver Reynolds
  Poem: ‘One would think the deep to be hoary’

• Lachlan Mackinnon
  Poem: ‘Seventy-Second Air Force’

• John Sutherland

  • Glitz by Elmore Leonard
  • LaBrava by Elmore Leonard
  • Stick by Elmore Leonard
  • The Hunting Season by J.K. Mayo

• T.M. Scanlon

  • Morality and Conflict by Stuart Hampshire
  • Spheres of Justice: A Defence of Pluralism and Equality by Michael Walzer

• Paul Seabright

  • Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy by Bernard Williams

• Colin McGinn

  • Essays on Davidson: Actions and Events edited by Bruce Vermazen and Merrill Hintikka

• Stuart Hampshire

  • Spinoza by R.J. Delahunty

• A.J.P. Taylor
  Diary

• Conrad Russell

  • The Restoration: A Political and Religious History of England and Wales 1658-1667 by Ronald Hutton

• Michael Stewart

  • Crowded Hours by Eric Roll