Cover: Caroline Forbes

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Rosemary Ashton
• Hugh Barnes
• John Bayley
• Alan Brien
• Brigid Brophy
• Susannah Clapp
• Patricia Craig
• Philippa Foot
• John Gau
• Alan Milward
• Walter Nash
• Patrick Parrinder
• Gareth Reeves
• Christopher Reid
• Christopher Ricks
• Pat Rogers
• Conrad Russell
• Jonathan Spence
• John Sturrock
• Bernard Williams

Contents

• Philippa Foot

  • The End of Life by James Rachels
  • Voluntary Euthanasia edited by A.B. Downing and Barbara Smoker
  • Moral Dilemmas in Modern Medicine edited by Michael Lockwood

• Letters
  Phyllis Grosskurth, Paul Seabright, James Hall, John Esmond, Norman Cantor, David Gilmour, Eva Shorr, Désirée Park, John Burrow

• Bernard Williams

  • The View from Nowhere by Thomas Nagel

• John Sturrock

  • Atlas by Jorge Luis Borges, in collaboration with Maria Kodama, translated by Anthony Kerrigan
  • Seven Nights by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Eliot Weinberger

• Patrick Parrinder

  • The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth
  • The Haunted House by Rebecca Brown
  • Whole of a Morning Sky by Grace Nichols
  • The Piano Tuner by Peter Meinke
  • Tap City by Ron Abell

• Gareth Reeves
  Three Poems

• John Gau

  • The Last Days of the Beeb by Michael Leapman

• Pat Rogers

  • Mothers of the Novel: One Hundred Good Women Writers before Jane Austen by Dale Spender
  • Scribbling Sisters by Dale Spender and Lynne Spender
  • A Woman of No Character: An Autobiography of Mrs Manley by Fidelis Morgan
  • Cecilia by Fanny Burney
  • Millenium Hall by Sarah Scott
  • Marriage by Susan Ferrier
  • Belinda by Maria Edgeworth
  • Self-Control by Mary Brunton
  • The Female Quixote: The Adventures of Arabella by Charlotte Lennox

• Rosemary Ashton

  • George Eliot by Gillian Beer
  • German Women in the 18th and 19th Centuries: A Social and Literary History edited by Ruth-Ellen Joeres and Mary Jo Maynes
  • Red Jenny: A Life with Karl Marx by H.F. Peters
  • Wives of Fame: Mary Livingstone, Jenny Marx, Emma Darwin by Edna Healey
  • A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon by Sheila Herstein
  • George Eliot and Blackmail by Alexander Welsh

• John Bayley

  • No, I’m not afraid by Irina Ratushinskaya, translated by David McDuff
  • Shcharansky: Hero of Our Time by Martin Gilbert
  • The Russian Orthodox Church: A Contemporary History by Jane Ellis

• Alan Milward

  • My Father Rudolf Hess by Wolf Rüdiger Hess, translated by Fred Crowley
  • Long Knives and Short Memories: The Spandau Prison Story by Jack Fishman
  • Zwangssterilisation im Nationalsozialismus: Studien zur Rassenpolitik und Frauenpolitik by Gisela Bock
  • Prelude to Genocide: Nazi Ideology and the Struggle for Power by Simon Taylor

• Christopher Reid
  Poem: ‘Memres of Alfred Stoker’

• Jonathan Spence

  • The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in 17th-Century China by Frederic Wakeman

• Conrad Russell

  • Revel, Riot and Rebellion: Popular Politics and Culture in England 1603-1660 by David Underdown
  • The Reign of Henry VIII: Personalities and Politics by David Starkey

• Christopher Ricks

  • Found in the Street by Patricia Highsmith
  • Private Papers by Margaret Forster

• Patricia Craig

  • A Taste for Death by P.D. James
  • A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine
  • Dead Men’s Morris by Gladys Mitchell
  • Laurels are poison by Gladys Mitchell
  • Dido and Pa by Joan Aiken

• Susannah Clapp

  • Sunflower by Rebecca West

• Hugh Barnes

  • Mating Birds by Lewis Nkosi
  • Lost Time by Catharine Arnold
  • The Bridge by Iain Banks
  • Incidents at the Shrine by Ben Okri
  • Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe
  • The Innocents by Carolyn Slaughter

• Alan Brien
  Diary

• Walter Nash

  • The Complete Plain Words by Ernest Gowers, edited by Sidney Greenbaum and Janet Whitcut
  • Educational Linguistics by Michael Stubbs

• Brigid Brophy

  • The Letters of Mozart and his Family translated by Emily Anderson