CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Michael Brock
• Matthew Coady
• William Empson
• Ann Geneva
• John Haffenden
• Philip Horne
• Michael Howard
• Graham Ingham
• R.W. Johnson
• Anthony Lewis
• Hubert Moore
• Charles Nicholl
• Ben Pimlott
• Roy Porter
• Alan Ryan
• Naomi Shepherd
• Matt Simpson
• C.K. Stead

Contents

• Michael Howard writes about the Korean War, and about leaders that could not be abandoned

  • The Korean War by Max Hastings
  • The Origins of the Korean War by Peter Lowe
  • Korea: The War before Vietnam by Callum MacDonald

• Letters
  

• Charles Nicholl

  • Faustus and the Censor by William Empson, edited by John Henry Jones

• William Empson introduced by John Haffenden
  The Queen and I

• R.W. Johnson

  • Secrecy and Power: The Life of J. Edgar Hoover by Richard Gid Powers

• Hubert Moore
  Poem: ‘Desiderata’

• Anthony Lewis
  Freedom of the Press

• Ben Pimlott

  • Out of the Wilderness: Diaries 1963-67 by Tony Benn

• Michael Brock

  • David Lloyd George: A Political Life. The Architect of Change, 1863-1912 by Bentley Brinkerhoff Gilbert

• Graham Ingham
  Black Monday

• Matt Simpson
  Poem: ‘Old People’s Home, Balliol Road’

• Matthew Coady

  • Misrule by Tam Dalyell
  • One Man’s Judgement: An Autobiography by Lord Wheatley
  • Changing Battlefields: The Challenge to the Labour Party by John Silkin
  • Heseltine: The Unauthorised Biography by Julian Critchley

• Roy Porter

  • Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years 1830-1910 by Richard Evans

• Alan Ryan

  • Ruling Performance: British Governments from Attlee to Thatcher edited by Peter Hennessy and Anthony Seldon
  • The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Political Institutions edited by Vernon Bogdanor
  • Judges by David Pannick

• Naomi Shepherd

  • Sharon: An Israeli Caesar by Uzi Benziman
  • Sands of Sorrow: Israel’s Journey from Independence by Milton Viorst

• C.K. Stead

  • Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life by Claire Tomalin

• Ann Geneva
  Diary

• Philip Horne

  • The Perpetual Orgy by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen Lane
  • Captain Pantoja and the Special Service by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Gregory Kolovakos and Ronald Christ