Cover: David Hockney

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Richard Altick
• John Bayley
• Alan Bennett
• Peter Campbell
• Angela Carter
• Susannah Clapp
• Tam Dalyell
• James Fox
• David Hirson
• Clive James
• R.W. Johnson
• D.A.N. Jones
• John Lanchester
• Charles Nicholl
• Jonathan Raban
• Blair Worden

Contents

• James Fox

  • An Affair of State: The Profumo Case and the Framing of Stephen Ward by Phillip Knightley and Caroline Kennedy
  • Honeytrap: The Secret Worlds of Stephen Ward by Anthony Summers and Stephen Dorril

• Letters
  James MacGibbon, Norman Moss, Michael Moorcock, Roy Porter, Bruno Nightingale, Alma Cullen, Warwick Gould; Marjorie Reeves, Jonathan Barker, David Craig

• D.A.N. Jones

  • Letters of Conrad Russell: 1897-1947 edited by Georgiana Blakiston

• R.W. Johnson

  • Apocalypse 2000: Economic Breakdown and the Suicide of Democracy 1989-2000 by Peter Jay and Michael Stewart

• John Bayley

  • Dostoevsky. The Stir of Liberation: 1860-1865 by Joseph Frank
  • Selected Letters of Dostoevsky edited by Joseph Frank and David Goldstein

• Alan Bennett
  Kafka at Las Vegas

• Angela Carter

  • Honey from a Weed: Fasting and Feasting in Tuscany, Catalonia, the Cyclades and Apulia by Patience Gray
  • A Table in Provence: Classic Recipes from the South of France collected and illustrated by Leslie Forbes
  • The Joyce of Cooking: Food and Drink from James Joyce’s Dublin by Alison Armstrong, foreword by Anthony Burgess

• Jonathan Raban

  • Home and Away by Steve Ellis
  • The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper by Blake Morrison
  • The Frighteners by Sean O’Brien

• Clive James
  Poem: ‘The Light Well’

• Blair Worden

  • Soldiers and Statesmen: The General Council of the Army and its Debates, 1647-1648 by Austin Woolrych

• Susannah Clapp

  • A Life with Alan: The Diary of A.J.P. Taylor’s Wife, Eva, from 1978 to 1985 by Eva Haraszti Taylor
  • The Painted Banquet: My Life and Loves by Jocelyn Rickards
  • The Beaverbrook Girl by Janet Aitken Kidd

• Peter Campbell

  • Sidney Nolan: Such is life by Brian Adams
  • Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures by John Wilmerding
  • Faces 1966-1984 by David Hockney and Marco Livingstone

• Richard Altick

  • Palais-Royal by Richard Sennett

• John Lanchester

  • Temporary Shelter by Mary Gordon
  • Bluebeard’s Egg by Margaret Atwood
  • The Native by David Plante
  • The March of the Long Shadows by Norman Lewis

• Tam Dalyell
  Diary

• Charles Nicholl

  • The Darker Proof by Adam Mars-Jones and Edmund White

• David Hirson

  • Swimming to Cambodia: The Collected Works of Spalding Gray by Spalding Gray