Cover: Sam Maynard

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Bayley
• Michael Brock
• Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
• Ian Gilmour
• Nigel Hamilton
• R.W. Johnson
• D.A.N. Jones
• Edmund Leach
• Ross McKibbin
• David Norbrook
• William Rodgers
• Philip Roth
• Conrad Russell
• J.I.M. Stewart
• Hugo Williams
• Clive Wilmer

Contents

• Michael Brock

  • Government and the Universities in Britain: Programme and Performance 1960-1980 by John Carswell

• Letters
  E.E. Duncan-Jones, Bruce Clunies Ross, Rudolf Peierls, Philippa Foot, Steve Fuller, Paul Addison, David Aberbach, Adrian Room, Patrick Hughes

• William Rodgers
  The SDP’s Chances

• R.W. Johnson

  • ‘The target is destroyed’: What really happened to Flight 007 by Seymour Hersh

• Hugo Williams
  Poem: ‘When I grow up’

• Clive Wilmer
  Poem: ‘The Earth Rising’

• Ross McKibbin

  • The Politics of the UCS Work-In: Class Alliances and the Right to Work by John Foster and Charles Woolfson
  • A Lost Left: Three Studies in Socialism and Nationalism by David Howell
  • The Miners’ Strike 1984-5: Loss without Limit by Martin Adeney and John Lloyd
  • Red Hill: A Mining Community by Tony Parker
  • Strike Free: New Industrial Relations in Britain by Philip Bassett

• Ian Gilmour

  • Britain’s Civil Wars: Counter-Insurgency in the 20th Century by Charles Townshend
  • Terrorism and the Liberal State by Paul Wilkinson
  • Terrorism: How the West can win edited by Benjamin Netanyahu
  • Political Murder: From Tyrannicide to Terrorism by Franklin Ford
  • The Financing of Terror by James Adams
  • They dare to speak out: People and institutions confront Israel’s lobby by Paul Findley

• Edmund Leach

  • The Anthropology of Violence edited by David Riches
  • Quest for Excitement: Sport and Leisure in the Civilising Process by Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning
  • Sport, Power and Culture: A Social and Historical Analysis of Popular Sports in Britain by John Hargreaves
  • At the Dawn of Tyranny: The Origins of Individualism, Political Oppression and the State by Eli Sagan

• D.A.N. Jones

  • The Casualty by Heinrich Böll, translated by Leila Vennewitz
  • Augustus by Allan Massie
  • Gabriel’s Lament by Paul Bailey
  • The Mind and Body Shop by Frank Parkin

• Philip Roth talks to the Italian writer Primo Levi about his life and times

• John Bayley

  • The Bondage of Love: A Life of Mrs Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Molly Lefebure
  • Jane Welsh Carlyle by Virginia Surtees

• J.I.M. Stewart

  • H.G. Wells: Desperately Mortal by David Smith

• Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
  Poem: ‘Sherlock Holmes’

• Conrad Russell

  • Humanism in the Age of Henry VIII by Maria Dowling
  • Henry, Prince of Wales and England’s Lost Renaissance by Roy Strong
  • Authority and Conflict: England 1603-1658 by Derek Hirst
  • Rebellion or Revolution? England 1640-1660 by G.E. Aylmer
  • Politics and Ideology in England 1603-1640 by J.P. Sommerville

• David Norbrook

  • Hugh MacDiarmid: The Man and his Work by Nancy Gish
  • Complete Poems by Hugh MacDiarmid

• Nigel Hamilton
  Diary