Cover: Danny Gralton

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Richard Altick
• John Barber
• John Bayley
• Neil Berry
• Tony Blair
• Frank Kermode
• Les Murray
• Walter Patterson
• Tom Paulin
• John Rosselli
• Andrew Scull
• Paul Seabright
• Mary-Kay Wilmers
• Patrick Wright

Contents

• Patrick Wright

  • White Chappell: Scarlet Tracings by Iain Sinclair

• Letters
  J. Arch Getty, Frank Palmer, Robert Crawford, Julietta Harvey, John Bayley, David Stafford-Clark, M. Bapp, Keith Walker, Editor, ‘London Review’

• Richard Altick

  • George Scharf’s London: Sketches and Watercolours of a Changing City, 1820-50 by Peter Jackson

• Neil Berry
  Britain’s Asians

• Paul Seabright
  Sri Lanka’s Crisis

• Mary-Kay Wilmers

  • Tears before Bedtime by Barbara Skelton
  • In the Pink by Caroline Blackwood

• Frank Kermode

  • Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann

• Les Murray
  Two Poems

• Andrew Scull

  • The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture 1830-1980 by Elaine Showalter

• John Barber

  • Socialism, Peace and Democracy: Writings, Speeches and Reports by Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Gorbachev by Zhores Medvedev
  • The Sixth Continent: Russia and Mikhail Gorbachov by Mark Frankland
  • Shadows and Whispers: Power Politics inside the Kremlin from Brezhnev to Gorbachev by Dusko Doder
  • Pravda: Inside the Soviet News Machine by Angus Roxburgh
  • Utopia in Power: A History of the USSR from 1917 to the Present by Michel Heller and Aleksandr Nekrich

• Walter Patterson

  • Sarcophagus by Vladimir Gubaryev, translated by Michael Glenny
  • The Star Chernobyl by Julia Voznesenskaya
  • Chernobyl: A Novel by Frederick Pohl
  • Mayday at Chernobyl by Henry Hamman and Stuart Parrott
  • State of the World 1987: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress toward a Sustainable Society by Lester Brown

• John Bayley

  • How I Grew by Mary McCarthy
  • Myself and Michael Innes by J.I.M. Stewart

• John Rosselli

  • Verdi: A Life in the Theatre by Charles Osborne

• Tony Blair
  Diary

• Tom Paulin

  • Emily Dickinson by Helen McNeil
  • Emily Dickinson: Looking to Canaan by John Robinson
  • Emily Dickinson: A Poet’s Grammar by Christanne Miller
  • Emily Dickinson: The Poet on the Second Story by Jerome Loving