Cover: Enrico Guidoni

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Heribert Adam
• Jonathan Barnes
• John Bayley
• Linda Colley
• David Craig
• Ann Dummett
• Ian Hamilton
• R.W. Johnson
• Chauncey Loomis
• David Norbrook
• Peter Porter
• Terence Ranger
• Gareth Reeves
• Malise Ruthven
• Nicholas Spice
• E.P. Thompson
• Mary-Kay Wilmers

Contents

• John Bayley

  • The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin

• Letters
  John Regan, R.W. Johnson, Jonathan Allison, Edna Longley, Edward Timms

• Chauncey Loomis

  • Native Stones: A Book about Climbing by David Craig

• Mary-Kay Wilmers

  • Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
  • The Russian Album by Michael Ignatieff
  • The Making of a Peacemonger: The Memoirs of George Ignatieff prepared in association with Sonja Sinclair
  • A Little of All These: An Estonian Childhood by Tania Alexander

• Peter Porter
  Two Poems

• E.P. Thompson

  • Fear, Myth and History: The Ranters and the Historians by J.C. Davis

• David Craig
  Poem: ‘Apologia pro Poematis Meis’

• Gareth Reeves
  Poem: ‘Making it’

• Malise Ruthven

  • Cities on a Hill by Frances FitzGerald

• Ann Dummett

  • Anti-Racism: An Assault on Education and Value edited by Frank Palmer
  • The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain by Ron Ramdin

• Nicholas Spice

  • The Present Moment by Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye
  • Memory of Departure by Abdulrazak Gurnah
  • You can’t get lost in Cape Town by Zöe Wicomb

• Heribert Adam

  • Black and Gold: Tycoons, Revolutionaries and Apartheid by Anthony Sampson
  • The Crisis in South Africa by John Saul and Stephen Gelb

• Terence Ranger

  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written By Herself by Harriet Jacobs, edited by Jean Fagan Yellin
  • The Spirit and the Drum: A Memoir of Africa by Edith Turner
  • Kaffir Boy: Growing out of Apartheid by Mark Mathabane

• R.W. Johnson

  • The Age of Terrorism by Walter Laqueur
  • The Baader-Meinhof Group: The Inside Story of a Phenomenon by Stefan Aust, translated by Anthea Bell

• Linda Colley

  • Richard Cobden: A Victorian Outsider by Wendy Hinde
  • Richard Cobden: Independent Radical by Nicholas Edsall

• Ian Hamilton
  Diary

• David Norbrook

  • A History of Modern Poetry: Modernism and After by David Perkins
  • Collected Poems by Geoffrey Hill
  • The Poetry of Geoffrey Hill by Henry Hart

• Jonathan Barnes

  • Philoponus and the Rejection of Aristotelian Science by Richard Sorabji