CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Gabriele Annan
• Nigel Bowles
• David Craig
• Paul Delany
• Ruth Fainlight
• Mark Ford
• Stephen Haggard
• Richard Holme
• Mick Imlah
• R.W. Johnson
• Mark Lawson
• Karl Miller
• Donald Mitchell
• Patrick Parrinder
• Nicholas Penny
• David Rieff
• Richard Rorty
• W.G. Runciman

Contents

• R.W. Johnson
  Peter Wright, Judges and Journalists

• Letters
  Donald Davie, Jonathan Raban, Peter Craven, Ian Hamilton, Gerald Graff, Elisabeth Underwood, Tim Armstrong, John Bayley, Frank Palmer, Tom Hastie, Andrew Motion

• Richard Holme

  • Campaign! The Selling of the Prime Minister by Rodney Tyler
  • Battle for Power by Des Wilson
  • David Owen: Personally Speaking by Kenneth Harris

• Donald Mitchell remembers Hans Keller

• Richard Rorty

  • Der Philosophische Diskurs der Moderne: Zwölf Vorlesungen by Jürgen Habermas

• Nigel Bowles on the unmaking of the President

• David Rieff

  • Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy

• India is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its independence. Stephen Haggard writes about the role of Mahatma Gandhi

  • The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi. Vol. I: Civilisation, Politics and Religion edited by Rhagavan Iyer
  • The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi. Vol. II: Truth and Non-Violence edited by Rhagavan Iyer
  • The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi. Vol. III: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation edited by Rhagavan Iyer

• Mark Ford
  Two Poems

• Karl Miller

  • Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd

• Ruth Fainlight
  Poem: ‘Poppies’

• Patrick Parrinder

  • Two Lives and a Dream by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated by Walter Kaiser
  • The Wedding at Port-au-Prince by Hans Christoph Buch, translated by Ralph Manheim
  • Saints and Scholars by Terry Eagleton
  • Imperial Patient: The Memoirs of Nero’s Doctor by Alex Comfort

• Gabriele Annan

  • The Neo-Pagans: Friendship and Love in the Rupert Brooke Circle by Paul Delany

• Paul Delany

  • Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence, edited by David Farmer, Lindeth Vasey and John Worthen
  • The Letters of D.H. Lawrence: Vol. IV, 1921-24 edited by Warren Roberts, James Boulton and Elizabeth Mansfield

• David Craig

  • Before the oil ran out: Britain 1977-86 by Ian Jack
  • In a Distant Isle: The Orkney Background of Edwin Muir by George Marshall

• Mark Lawson

  • Love is colder than death: The Life and Times of Rainer Werner Fassbinder by Robert Katz and Peter Berling

• Nicholas Penny

  • Mantegna by Ronald Lightbown
  • The Sistine Chapel: Michelangelo Rediscovered edited by Massimo Giacometti, translated by Paul Holberton

• W.G. Runciman
  Diary

• Mick Imlah
  Poem: ‘Cockney’