Cover: Tom Evans

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Christopher Andrew
• Gabriele Annan
• John Bayley
• Angus Calder
• Michael Hofmann
• Christopher Lawrence
• Sam Miller
• Alan Milward
• Tom Paulin
• Mark Philp
• David Plante
• Craig Raine
• C.K. Stead
• J.P. Stern
• John Sutherland

Contents

• Christopher Andrew

  • World of Secrets: The Uses and Limits of Intelligence by Walter Laqueur

• Letters
  Philip Lomas, Peter Gwyn, Peter Lamarque, John Stone, Tom O’Farrell, Paul Driver, Nicolas Walter, James MacGibbon, Editor, ‘London Review’

• John Sutherland

  • A Perfect Spy by John le Carré
  • The Novels of John le Carré by David Monaghan
  • Taking sides: The Fiction of John le Carré by Tony Barley
  • John le Carré by Peter Lewis
  • A Servant’s Tale by Paula Fox
  • A State of Independence by Caryl Phillips

• Michael Hofmann
  Poem: ‘The Machine that Cried’

• C.K. Stead
  Poem: ‘Deconstructing the ‘Rainbow Warrior’’

• J.P. Stern

  • Reflections of a Non-Political Man by Thomas Mann, translated by Walter Morris

• Alan Milward

  • Selling Hitler: The story of the Hitler Diaries by Robert Harris

• Tom Paulin

  • The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats. Vol. I: 1865-1895 edited by John Kelly and Eric Domville

• Craig Raine
  Poem: ‘Songs for an Opera’

• John Bayley

  • Katharine Hepburn: A Biography by Anne Edwards

• Angus Calder

  • Soldier, Soldier by Tony Parker
  • Echoes of the Great War: The Diary of the Reverend Andrew Clark 1914-1919 edited by James Munson
  • The Unknown Army: Mutinies in the British Army in World War One by Gloden Dallas and Douglas Gill
  • Soldiers: A History of Men in Battle by John Keegan and Richard Holmes

• Sam Miller

  • The Mantle of the Prophet by Roy Mottahedeh

• Christopher Lawrence

  • The Black and white Medicine Show: How doctors serve and fail their customers by Donald Gould

• Mark Philp

  • The Anatomy of Madness: Essays in the History of Psychiatry Vol. I: People and Ideas, Vol. II: Institutions and Society edited by W.F. Bynum, Roy Porter and Michael Shepherd
  • Madness, Morality and Medicine: A Study of the York Retreat 1796-1914 by Anne Digby

• David Plante
  The Virgin

• Gabriele Annan
  Diary