CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Michael Church
• Penelope Fitzgerald
• Geoffrey Hawthorn
• Christopher Hitchens
• Dan Jacobson
• Michael Kustow
• Alexander Nehamas
• Craig Raine
• Gareth Reeves
• Pat Rogers
• Robert Rotberg
• Ahdaf Soueif
• E.S. Turner
• Richard Wollheim
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Richard Wollheim

  • J.T. Christie: A Great Teacher by Donald Lindsay, Roger Young and Hugh Lloyd-Jones

• Letters
  W.J. McCormack, John Lucas, M.R. Pryor, Ormond Uren, Ian Hamilton

• Robert Rotberg weighs the chances of an imminent black revolution in South Africa

• Dan Jacobson

  • To the Bitter End: A Photographic History of the Boer War 1899-1902 by Emanoel Lee

• Craig Raine

  • Time and Time Again by Dan Jacobson

• Ahdaf Soueif

  • An Egyptian Journal by William Golding

• Michael Kustow praises Peter Brook’s ‘Mahabharata’

• Alexander Nehamas

  • The Skeptical Tradition edited by Myles Burnyeat
  • The Modes of Scepticism: Ancient Texts and Modern Interpretations by Julia Annas and Jonathan Barnes
  • Skepticism and Naturalism: Some Varieties by P.F. Strawson
  • Hume’s Skepticism in the ‘Treatise of Human Nature’ by Robert Fogelin
  • The Refutation of Scepticism by A.C. Grayling
  • The Significance of Philosophical Scepticism by Barry Stroud

• Geoffrey Hawthorn

  • Hegel: The Letters translated by Clark Butler and Christine Seiler

• Gareth Reeves
  Poem: ‘A Funny Smell’

• Michael Wood

  • Mr Palomar by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver
  • Parrot’s Perch by Michel Rio, translated by Leigh Hafrey
  • Light Years by Maggie Gee

• Pat Rogers

  • Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
  • Paradise Postponed by John Mortimer
  • High Ground by John McGahern

• Penelope Fitzgerald

  • Our Three Selves: A Life of Radclyffe Hall by Michael Baker

• Michael Church

  • Here lies: An Autobiography by Eric Ambler
  • The Levanter by Eric Ambler
  • Doctor Frigo by Eric Ambler
  • The Other Side of the Moon: The Life of David Niven by Sheridan Morley
  • Secrets: Boyhood in a Jewish Hotel 1932-1954 by Ronald Hayman
  • A Woman in Custody by Audrey Peckham
  • No Gangster More Bold by John Morgan

• Christopher Hitchens
  Diary

• E.S. Turner

  • Great Britons: 20th-Century Lives by Harold Oxbury
  • The Oxford Book of Military Anecdotes edited by Max Hastings
  • The Long Affray: The Poaching Wars in Britain by Harry Hopkins