Cover: Christopher Killip

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Richard Altick
• Justin Broackes
• Peter Burke
• Patricia Craig
• William Doyle
• Sean French
• P.N. Furbank
• John Kenneth Galbraith
• Ted Hughes
• D.A.N. Jones
• Martin Seymour-Smith
• Nicholas Spice
• David Trotter
• Lucy Anne Watt
• C.R. Whittaker
• Rex Winsbury

Contents

• David Trotter

  • Early Verse by Rudyard Kipling 1879-1889 edited by Andrew Rutherford
  • Kipling’s India: Uncollected Sketches 1884-88 edited by Thomas Pinney
  • Imperialism and Popular Culture edited by John MacKenzie
  • Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases edited by Henry Yule and A.C. Burnell

• Letters
  Iain McGilchrist, Chris Peachment, Eric Sams, Stanley Wells, R.W. Johnson, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Denis Donoghue, Jeffry Larson, Donald Hawes, E.W. Cohen, Editor, ‘London Review of Books’, David Bradshaw

• Ted Hughes
  Poem: ‘Manchester Skytrain’

• John Kenneth Galbraith

  • Truman by Roy Jenkins

• Rex Winsbury
  Why Wapping?

• William Doyle

  • What is history? by E.H. Carr, edited by R.W. Davies

• C.R. Whittaker

  • Ancient History: Evidence and Models by M.I. Finley

• Peter Burke

  • Trial by Impotence: Virility and Marriage in Pre-Revolutionary France by Pierre Darmon, translated by Paul Keegan
  • The Boundaries of Eros: Sex, Crime and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice by Guido Ruggiero
  • The Tuscans and their Families: A Study of the Florentine Catasto of 1427 by David Herlihy and Christiane Klapisch-Zuber
  • Women, Family and Ritual in Renaissance Italy by Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, translated by Lydia Cochrane
  • French Women in the Age of Enlightenment edited by Samia Spencer

• Patricia Craig

  • Breaking silence: Lesbian Nuns on Convent Sexuality edited by Rosemary Curb and Nancy Manahan

• Martin Seymour-Smith

  • Aspects of Feeling by Peter Vansittart

• D.A.N. Jones

  • The Recognitions by William Gaddis
  • JR by William Gaddis
  • Carpenter’s Gothic by William Gaddis

• Lucy Anne Watt
  Poem: ‘Sheets’

• Nicholas Spice

  • Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig, translated by Thomas Colchie
  • Back in the World by Tobias Wolff

• Richard Altick

  • The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England 1850-1914 by Janet Oppenheim

• Justin Broackes
  Hume and Scepticism

• Sean French
  Diary

• P.N. Furbank

  • Bernard Shaw’s Collected Letters. Vol. III: 1911-1925 edited by Dan Laurence