CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Stephen Bann
• John Bayley
• Patricia Craig
• Penelope Fitzgerald
• Paul Foot
• Geoffrey Hawthorn
• Clive James
• Mark Lambert
• Edna Longley
• Rosalind Mitchison
• Nicholas Penny
• Alan Ryan
• Jon Stallworthy

Contents

• Paul Foot

  • If voting changed anything, they’d abolish it by Ken Livingstone
  • A Taste of Power: The Politics of Local Economics edited by Maureen Mackintosh and Hilary Wainwright

• Letters
  J.C. Davis, Jonathan Scott, Ann Dummett, Roy MacGregor-Hastie, V.G. Kiernan, Douglas Hyde, W.J.T. Mitchell, Geoffrey Minish

• Nicholas Penny

  • Bernard Berenson. Vol. II: The Making of a Legend by Ernest Samuels
  • The Partnership: The Secret Association of Bernard Berenson and Joseph Duveen by Colin Simpson

• Alan Ryan

  • An Introduction to Karl Marx by Jon Elster
  • Making sense of Marx by Jon Elster
  • Analytical Marxism edited by John Roemer

• Rosalind Mitchison

  • Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism by Benedict Anderson
  • Culture, Identity and Politics by Ernest Gellner
  • The Ethnic Origins of Nations by Anthony Smith
  • Us and Them: A Study of Group Consciousness by W.A. Elliott

• Geoffrey Hawthorn

  • Rival Views of Market Society, and Other Recent Essays by Albert Hirschman
  • Development, Democracy and the Art of Trespassing: Essays in Honour of Albert Hirschman edited by Alejandro Foxley, Michael McPherson and Guillermo O’Donnell

• Jon Stallworthy
  Poem: ‘The Nutcracker’

• John Bayley

  • Robert Lowell: Essays on the Poetry edited by Steven Gould Axelrod and Helen Deese
  • Collected Prose by Robert Lowell, edited and introduced by Robert Giroux

• Stephen Bann

  • The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation by Hayden White
  • Post-Structuralism and the Question of History edited by Derek Attridge, Geoff Bennington and Robert Young

• Patricia Craig

  • The Golden Bird: Two Orkney Stories by George Mackay Brown
  • The Upper Hand by Stuart Hood
  • Dreams of Dead Women’s Handbags by Shena Mackay

• Mark Lambert

  • Anywhere but here by Mona Simpson
  • Herself in Love by Marianne Wiggins
  • Journey of the Wolf by Douglas Day
  • Spanking the maid by Robert Coover
  • A Night at the Movies, or, You must remember this by Robert Coover

• Clive James
  Poem: ‘Bring me the sweat of Gabriela Sabatini’

• Edna Longley
  Diary

• Penelope Fitzgerald

  • The Other Garden by Francis Wyndham
  • The Engine of Owl-Light by Sebastian Barry
  • A Singular Attraction by Ita Daly
  • Cold Spring Harbor by Richard Yates
  • The Changeling by Catharine Arnold