CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Hugh Barnes
• Marilyn Butler
• John Campbell
• Susannah Clapp
• Ruth Fainlight
• Frank Field
• Eric Griffiths
• Michael Hofmann
• John Horgan
• Michael Howard
• Michael Ignatieff
• Danny Karlin
• Keith Kyle
• Andrew Motion
• Amanda Prantera
• Christopher Ricks
• Matt Simpson
• Nicholas Spice
• Jonathan Steele

Contents

• Frank Field

  • Liverpool on the Brink: One City’s Struggle against Government Cuts by Michael Parkinson
  • Unemployment in Liverpool. Vol. I: Unemployment Changes 1982-1985 by Michael Hayes
  • Liverpool’s Economy. Vol. I: Employment and Unemployment: Changes and Trends 1978-1991 by Michael Hayes

• Letters
  Jeff Weintraub, John Barber, Tony Hafliger, John Drakakis, K.P.S. Jochum, Emma Soames, Robert Hanlon, Editor, ‘London Review of Books’, Peter Godman, John Deathridge, Frank Herrmann, J.B. Bury, Christopher MacLehose, Susan Broidy, Michael Luke

• Matt Simpson
  Four Poems

• Keith Kyle

  • Aquarium by Viktor Suvorov, translated by David Floyd
  • Breaking with Moscow by Arkady Shevchenko
  • Rethinking the Soviet Experience: Politics and History since 1917 by Stephen Cohen
  • Rise and Fall by Milovan Djilas
  • Tito’s Flawed Legacy: Yugoslavia and the West 1939-1984 by Nora Beloff

• Jonathan Steele

  • Fire from the Mountain: The Making of a Sandinista by Omar Cabezas, translated by Kathleen Weaver

• Christopher Ricks

  • Easy Pieces by Geoffrey Hartman

• Eric Griffiths

  • Theoretical Essays: Film, Linguistics, Literature by Colin MacCabe
  • A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory by Raman Selden

• Marilyn Butler

  • The Beauty of Inflections: Literary Investigations in Historical Method and Theory by Jerome McGann
  • The Politics of Language: 1791-1819 by Olivia Smith

• Ruth Fainlight
  Poem: ‘Like Manet’s ‘Olympe’’

• John Campbell

  • The Kitchener Enigma by Trevor Royle
  • Kitchener: The Man behind the Legend by Philip Warner

• Michael Hofmann
  Poem: ‘Days of 1985’

• Andrew Motion

  • Edward Thomas: A Portrait by R. George Thomas

• Michael Howard praises the poets of the Great War

• Danny Karlin

  • ‘The Good War’: An Oral History of World War Two by Studs Terkel
  • Truth, Dare or Promise: Girls Growing up in the Fifties edited by Liz Heron

• Nicholas Spice

  • The Assault by Harry Mulisch, translated by Claire Nicolas White
  • All Our Yesterdays by Natalia Ginzburg, translated by Angus Davidson
  • Family Sayings by Natalia Ginzburg, translated by D.M. Low
  • The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg, translated by Dick Davis
  • Strange Loop by Amanda Prantera
  • The Cabalist by Amanda Prantera

• Hugh Barnes

  • Elvis and Me by Priscilla Beaulieu Presley and Sandra Harman
  • Are you lonesome tonight? by Alan Bleasdale
  • Elvis and Gladys by Elaine Dundy
  • The Johnny Cash Discography by John Smith
  • Horse’s Neck by Pete Townshend
  • Like Punk Never Happened by Dave Rimmer
  • Starlust: The Secret Fantasies of Fans by Fred Vermorel and Judy Vermorel
  • The Beatles by Hunter Davies

• Michael Ignatieff

  • The Freud Scenario by Jean-Paul Sartre, edited by J.-B. Pontalis, translated by Quintin Hoare

• John Horgan
  Diary

• Susannah Clapp

  • Stevie by Jack Barbera and William McBrien

• Amanda Prantera

  • The Periodic Table by Primo Levi, translated by Raymond Rosenthal