CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Bayley
• Alan Brinkley
• Swee Chai Ang
• Allen Curnow
• Paul Foot
• Bryan Gould
• Geoffrey Hawthorn
• Michael Howard
• Patrick Maynard
• Walter Nash
• Tom Shippey
• W.C. Spengemann
• E.S. Turner
• J.M. Winter
• Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Contents

• Bryan Gould
  What Labour must do

• Letters
  Les Murray, Roger Scruton, Ray Honeyford, S.J.D. Green, Ann Dummett, Hilary Wainwright, Shlomo Avineri, John Bayley, Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Dipple, Gavin Ewart, Andrew Motion

• Geoffrey Hawthorn

  • Mrs Thatcher’s Revolution: The Ending of the Socialist Era by Peter Jenkins
  • De-Industrialisation and Foreign Trade by R.E. Rowthorn and J.R. Wells

• E.S. Turner

  • A Class Society at War: England 1914-18 by Bernard Waites
  • Working for Victory? Images of Women in the First World War by Diana Condell and Jean Liddiard
  • The Countryside at War 1914-18 by Caroline Dakers
  • When Jim Crow met John Bull: Black American Soldiers in World War Two Britain by Graham Smith

• Michael Howard

  • The Mask of Command by John Keegan

• J.M. Winter
  New Life on the West Bank

• Swee Chai Ang
  Bilal and Samir

• Alan Brinkley

  • Armed Truce by Hugh Thomas
  • The Wise Men by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas
  • Ike by Piers Brendon
  • May-Day by Michael Beschloss

• Allen Curnow
  Poem: ‘A Time of Day’

• Tom Shippey

  • The Sea and Summer by George Turner
  • The Dragon in the Sword by Michael Moorcock
  • Fiasco by Stanislaw Lem, translated by Michael Kandel

• John Bayley

  • The Collected Stories of Angus Wilson

• Patrick Maynard

  • Realism, Writing, Disfiguration: On Thomas Eakins and Stephen Crane by Michael Fried
  • Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology by W.J.T. Mitchell

• Ruth Bernard Yeazell

  • Henry James: A Life by Leon Edel
  • The Complete Notebooks of Henry James edited by Leon Edel and Lyall Powers

• W.C. Spengemann

  • Look homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe by David Herbert Donald
  • From this moment on: America in 1940 by Jeffrey Hart

• Paul Foot
  Diary

• Walter Nash

  • The World’s Major Languages edited by Bernard Comrie
  • Studies in Lexicography edited by Robert Burchfield
  • Van Winkle’s Return: Change in American English 1966-1986 by Kenneth Wilson
  • Words at Work: Lectures on Textual Structure by Randolph Quirk
  • The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language by David Crystal