Cover: Mr Lonnergan

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Hugh Barnes
• Alan Bennett
• Don Coles
• Patricia Craig
• Tam Dalyell
• Denis Donoghue
• Paul Edwards
• P.N. Furbank
• R.W. Johnson
• D.A.N. Jones
• Danny Karlin
• Frank Kermode
• David Norbrook
• David Pears
• Fiona Pitt-Kethley
• W.G. Runciman
• Matt Simpson
• J.I.M. Stewart
• Clive Wilmer
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Alan Bennett
  Uncle Clarence

• Letters
  Terence Hegarty, William Milne, David Maclagan, Neville Singh, Paul Fairey, Editor, ‘London Review of Books’, Julian Barnes, Simon Karlinsky, John Bayley, Christopher Driver, Trevor Burridge, Geoffrey Minish, Nicolas Walter

• R.W. Johnson

  • The ‘Rainbow Warrior’ Affair by Richard Shears and Isobelle Gidley
  • Sink the ‘Rainbow’: An Inquiry into the Greenpeace Affair by John Dyson
  • La Piscine: Les Services Secrets Français 1944-1984 by R. Faligot and P. Krop

• Matt Simpson
  Poem: ‘An Adenoidal Letter to a Former Classmate’

• David Norbrook

  • The Faber Book of Political Verse edited by Tom Paulin

• Clive Wilmer
  Two Poems

• D.A.N. Jones

  • Agate: A Biography by James Harding
  • Subsequent Performances by Jonathan Miller

• P.N. Furbank

  • The Inner I: British Literary Autobiography of the 20th Century by Brian Finney

• Frank Kermode

  • Dear Shadows: Portraits from Memory by John Wain
  • The Oxford Library of English Poetry edited by John Wain

• Denis Donoghue

  • Jonathan Swift: A Hypocrite Reversed by David Nokes

• Michael Wood

  • Literary Criticism by Henry James, edited by Leon Edel
  • Henry James: The Writer and his Work by Tony Tanner

• J.I.M. Stewart

  • The Unknown Conan Doyle: Letters to the Press by John Michael Gibson and Richard Lancelyn Green

• Don Coles

  • Sphinx by D.M. Thomas

• David Pears

  • Berkeley: The Central Arguments by A.C. Grayling
  • Essays on Berkeley: A Tercentennial Celebration edited by John Foster and Howard Robinson

• W.G. Runciman on the tendency of human societies to form varieties

• Patricia Craig

  • Lonely the man without heroes by M.S. Power
  • The Pearlkillers by Rachel Ingalls
  • The Girls by John Bowen
  • To have and to hold by Deborah Moggach
  • Vacant Possession by Hilary Mantel
  • Breaking the rules by Caroline Lassalle
  • The Bay of Silence by Lisa St Aubin de Teran

• Paul Edwards

  • An Insular Possession by Timothy Mo
  • The Story of Zahra by Hanan al-Shaykh
  • The Lightning of August by Jorge Ibarguengoitia

• Tam Dalyell
  Diary

• Hugh Barnes

  • Damaged Gods by Julie Burchill
  • Love it or shove it: The Best of Julie Burchill
  • Girls on Film by Julie Burchill
  • Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis

• Fiona Pitt-Kethley
  Poem: ‘Baby Doll’

• Danny Karlin

  • Ransom by Jay McInerney
  • Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney