Cover: Franz Masereel

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Alan Bennett
• Ronald Bryden
• Denis Donoghue
• Barbara Everett
• David Gilmour
• Ian Hacking
• R.W. Johnson
• Blake Morrison
• Walter Nash
• Christopher Peacocke
• Jon Silkin
• C.H. Sisson
• C.K. Stead
• Jonathan Steinberg
• E.P. Thompson

Contents

• R.W. Johnson

  • L’Empire Moon by Jean-Francois Boyer
  • The Rise and Fall of the Bulgarian Connection by Edward Herman and Frank Brodhead

• Letters
  R. Davies, Paul Addison, David Norbrook, Damian Grant, Frede Hojgaard, Geoffrey Hawthorn, Jerome Kagan, Frank Walbank, James Oberg, R.W. Johnson, John Henry Jones, Jonathan Rée

• Jon Silkin
  Poem: ‘Paying for forgiveness’

• Barbara Everett

  • William Shakespeare: The Sonnets and ‘A Lover’s Complaint’ edited by John Kerrigan

• Denis Donoghue

  • Between the Woods and the Water by Patrick Leigh Fermor et al
  • Coasting by Jonathan Raban
  • The Grand Tour by Hunter Davies

• Ronald Bryden

  • Bernard Shaw: The Diaries 1885-1897 edited by Stanley Weintraub

• E.P. Thompson
  Subduing the jury

• David Gilmour

  • Anthony Eden by Robert Rhodes James
  • Descent to Suez: Diaries 1951-56 by Evelyn Shuckburgh, edited by John Charmley
  • Cutting the Lion’s Tail: Suez through Egyptian Eyes by Mohamed Heikal
  • The Suez Affair by Hugh Thomas

• Christopher Peacocke

  • Truth and Interpretation: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson edited by Ernest LePore

• Ian Hacking

  • How institutions think by Mary Douglas

• Blake Morrison
  Poem: ‘On Sizewell Beach’

• Walter Nash

  • Answered Prayers by Truman Capote
  • A Rich Full Death by Michael Dibdin
  • Leaning in the Wind by P.H. Newby
  • The Way-Paver by Anne Devlin

• C.K. Stead

  • The Matriarch by Witi Ihimaera

• Alan Bennett
  Diary

• C.H. Sisson

  • Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai translated by Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell
  • Hurricane Lamp by Turner Cassity
  • Selected Poems by Robert Wells

• Jonathan Steinberg

  • Strangers in their own Land: Young Jews in Germany and Austria Today by Peter Sichrovsky and Thomas Keneally
  • Remnants: The Last Jews of Poland by Malgorzata Niezabitowska and Tomasz Tomaszewski, translated by William Brand and Hanna Dobosiewicz
  • The Jews in Poland edited by Chimen Abramsky, Maciej Jachimczyk and Antony Polonsky