Cover: David Hoffman

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Stuart Airlie
• John Bayley
• Ian Buruma
• Patricia Craig
• John Hollander
• Clive James
• Douglas Johnson
• Eric Korn
• Hanif Kureishi
• Mark Lambert
• Peter Laslett
• David Pears
• William Rodgers
• W.G. Runciman
• John Sturrock
• F.M.L. Thompson
• Edward Timms
• Richard Tuck

Contents

• William Rodgers

  • The Market for Glory: Fleet Street Ownership in the 20th Century by Simon Jenkins
  • The End of the Street by Linda Melvern

• Letters
  David Craig, Paul Addison, Walter Patterson, Harry Hodgkinson, Clive James, A.N. Wilson, Nicolas Walter, Edward Hogan, Bruno Nightingale, C.A. Latimer, Keith Kyle, Bruce Coward

• F.M.L. Thompson

  • The Aristocracy in England, 1660-1914 by J.V. Beckett

• W.G. Runciman

  • The Sources of Social Power. Vol I: A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760 by Michael Mann

• Edward Timms

  • Georg Lukacs: Selected Correspondence 1902-1920 translated by Judith Marcus and Zoltan Tar

• Douglas Johnson

  • De Gaulle. Vol III: Le Souverain by Jean Lacouture

• John Bayley

  • A Choice of Kipling’s Prose by Craig Raine
  • Kipling’s Kingdom: His Best Indian Stories by Charles Allen

• Hanif Kureishi
  The Buddha of Suburbia

• John Sturrock

  • The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta by Mario Vargas Llosa
  • The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Randolph Hogan

• Mark Lambert

  • The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich
  • Marya: A Life by Joyce Carol Oates
  • The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt

• Clive James
  Poem: ‘Go back to the opal sunset’

• David Pears

  • A.J. Ayer by John Foster
  • Voltaire by A.J. Ayer
  • Fact, Science and Morality: Essays on A.J. Ayer’s ‘Language, Truth and Logic’ edited by Graham Macdonald and Crispin Wright

• Stuart Airlie

  • William Marshal: The Flower of Chivalry by Georges Duby, translated by Richard Howard
  • Thomas Becket by Frank Barlow

• Richard Tuck

  • Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle and the Experimental Life by Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer

• Ian Buruma

  • The Myth of Japanese Uniqueness by Peter Dale

• Eric Korn
  Diary

• Patricia Craig

  • Poetry in the Wars by Edna Longley
  • We Irish: The Selected Essays of Denis Donoghue
  • The Battle of The Books by W.J. McCormack
  • The Twilight of Ascendancy by Mark Bence-Jones
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl edited by John Quinn

• John Hollander
  Poem: ‘Inviting a friend to lunch’

• Peter Laslett

  • Sex in Middlesex: Popular Mores in a Massachusetts County 1649-1699 by Roger Thompson
  • Breasts, Bottles and Babies: A History of Infant Feeding by Valerie Fildes