Cover: John Byrne

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Gillian Beer
• Linda Colley
• Patricia Craig
• Michael Dibdin
• Denis Donoghue
• Paul Foot
• Mark Ford
• Jose Harris
• Michael Howard
• R.W. Johnson
• D.A.N. Jones
• Jay McInerney
• Patrick Parrinder
• Roy Porter
• John Sutherland
• Hugo Williams

Contents

• Michael Howard

  • The Myriad Faces of War: Britain and the Great War 1914-1918 by Trevor Wilson
  • British Strategy and War Aims 1914-1916 by David French
  • The Old Lie: The Great War and the Public School Ethos by Peter Parker

• Letters
  Nicholas Penny, Frank Herrmann, F.M.L. Thompson, A.N. Wilson, Paul Mercer, Angus Calder, Ralph Raimi, R.W. Johnson, Cushing Strout

• Jose Harris

  • Baldwin by Roy Jenkins
  • Rab: The Life of R.A. Butler by Anthony Howard
  • The Political Culture of Modern Britain: Studies in Memory of Stephen Koss edited by J.M.W. Bean

• Linda Colley

  • The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1790-1820. Vol. I: Survey edited by R.G. Thorne
  • The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1790-1820. Vol. II: Constituencies edited by R.G. Thorne
  • The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1790-1820. Vol. III: Members A-F edited by R.G. Thorne
  • The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1790-1820. Vol. IV: Members G-P edited by R.G. Thorne
  • The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1790-1820. Vol. V: Members P-Z edited by R.G. Thorne

• Paul Foot

  • Molehunt: The Full Story of the Soviet Mole in MI5 by Nigel West

• R.W. Johnson

  • The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus by Jean-Denis Bredin, translated by Jeffrey Mehlman
  • Neither Right nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France by Zeev Sternhell, translated by David Maisel

• Roy Porter

  • Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time by Stephen Jay Gould

• John Sutherland

  • Thackeray’s Universe: Shifting Worlds of Imagination and Reality by Catherine Peters

• Hugo Williams
  Poem: ‘High o’er the fence leaps Sonny Jim’

• Gillian Beer

  • The Essays of Virginia Woolf: Vol. 1 1904-1912 edited by Andrew McNeillie
  • The Interrupted Moment: A View of Virginia Woolf’s Novels by Lucio Ruotolo
  • Virginia Woolf and the Real World by Alex Zwerdling

• Patrick Parrinder

  • Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew: An Italian Story by Dan Vittorio Segre
  • To the Land of the Reeds by Aharon Appelfeld, translated by Jeffrey Green
  • Enchantment by Daphne Merkin
  • Ernesto by Umberto Saba, translated by Mark Thompson

• D.A.N. Jones

  • A Sport of Nature by Nadine Gordimer
  • Trust by Mary Flanagan

• Michael Dibdin

  • The Long Night of Francisco Sanctis by Humberto Costantini, translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni
  • Requiem for a Woman’s Soul by Omar Rivabella, translated by Paul Riviera
  • Words in Commotion, and Other Stories by Tommaso Landolfi, translated by Ring Jordan and Lydia Jordan
  • The Literature Machine by Italo Calvino, translated by Patrick Creagh
  • The St Veronica Gig Stories by Jack Pulaski
  • Kate Vaiden by Reynolds Price

• Denis Donoghue writes about Louis MacNeice, and the thrusting of Shakespeare into touch

  • Selected Literary Criticism of Louis MacNeice edited by Alan Heuser

• Patricia Craig

  • A Darkness in the Eye by M.S. Power
  • The Stars at Noon by Denis Johnson
  • Like Birds in the Wilderness by Agnes Owens
  • Fool’s Sanctuary by Jennifer Johnston
  • A Fatal Inversion by Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell)
  • Sisters of the Road by Barbara Wilson
  • The price you pay by Hannah Wakefield

• Jay McInerney
  Diary

• Mark Ford

  • ‘Howl’: Original Draft Facsimile by Allen Ginsberg, edited by Barry Miles
  • White Shroud: Poems 1980-1985 by Allen Ginsberg