Cover: Patrick Hughes

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Paul Addison
• Nobuko Albery
• Bryan Appleyard
• A.J. Ayer
• Jonathan Barnes
• John Bayley
• Peter Campbell
• Patricia Craig
• Julian Critchley
• Paul Foot
• Jose Harris
• Patrick Hughes
• Frank Kermode
• Alan Macfarlane
• Patrick Parrinder
• Tom Paulin
• Richard Rorty
• David Saunders-Wilson

Contents

• Paul Foot

  • Shootdown: The Verdict on KAL 007 by R.W. Johnson

• Letters
  Gabriel Josipovici, Nicholas Jacobs, Richard Bowring, Anthony Thwaite, Editor, ‘London Review’, David Norbrook, C.K. Stead, Editors, ‘London Review’

• Frank Kermode

  • The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America by Martin Amis

• Paul Addison

  • The Audit of War: The Illusion and Reality of Britain as a Great Nation by Correlli Barnett
  • The Great War and the British People by J.M. Winter

• Jose Harris

  • Wallis and Edward: Letters 1931-1937 edited by Michael Bloch
  • Rat Week: An Essay on the Abdication by Osbert Sitwell

• Alan Macfarlane

  • Crime and the Courts in England 1660-1800 by J.M. Beattie

• David Saunders-Wilson

  • Prisons and the Process of Justice by Andrew Rutherford
  • Growing out of Crime: Society and Young People in Trouble by Andrew Rutherford

• Richard Rorty
  The Contingency of Community

• A.J. Ayer
  World Cup

• John Bayley

  • Lionel Trilling and the Fate of Cultural Criticism by Mark Krupnick

• Tom Paulin
  Poem: ‘I am nature’

• Patrick Parrinder

  • A Short History of Irish Literature by Seamus Deane
  • The Peoples of Ireland by Liam de Paor
  • Portrait of Ireland by Liam de Paor
  • The Complete Dramatic Works by Samuel Beckett
  • The Beckett Country: An Exhibition for Samuel Beckett’s 80th Birthday by Eoin O’Brien and James Knowlson

• Patricia Craig

  • The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse edited by Thomas Kinsella
  • The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry edited by Paul Muldoon
  • Irish Poetry after Joyce by Dillon Johnston

• Nobuko Albery

  • Principles of Classical Japanese Literature edited by Earl Miner
  • The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature by Earl Miner, Hiroko Odagiri and Robert Morrell
  • Mitford’s Japan: The Memoirs and Recollections, 1866-1906, of Algernon Bertram Mitford, the First Lord Redesdale edited by Hugh Cortazzi

• Jonathan Barnes

  • The World of Thought in Ancient China by Benjamin Schwartz

• Bryan Appleyard

  • Truth and Lies in Literature: Reviews and Essays by Stephen Vizinczey
  • In Praise of Older Women: The Amorous Recollections of A.V. by Stephen Vizinczey

• Patrick Hughes
  Diary

• Peter Campbell

  • Richard Rogers by Bryan Appleyard
  • A Concrete Atlantis by Reyner Banham
  • William Richard Lethaby by Godfrey Rubens

• Julian Critchley

  • A Matter of Honour by Jeffrey Archer