CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Robert Dawidoff
• Owen Dudley Edwards
• Toby Forward
• David Gilmour
• Ian Hacking
• Anthony Howard
• Ted Hughes
• John Lanchester
• Elizabeth Mavor
• Christopher Norris
• Douglas Oliver
• Martin Pugh
• Rosamund Stanhope
• Carolyn Steedman
• David Trotter

Contents

• Anthony Howard writes about the spitting image of the Church of England

• Letters
  R.W. Johnson, Howard Millbank, John Fletcher, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Danny Karlin, Bruno Nightingale, John Raby

• David Trotter

  • Argufying: Essays on Literature and Culture by William Empson, edited by John Haffenden

• Christopher Norris
  Paul de Man’s Past

• Douglas Oliver
  Poem: ‘The Oracle of the Drowned’

• Robert Dawidoff

  • The Works of George Santayana. Vol. I: Persons and Places edited by William Holzberger and Herman Saatkamp
  • George Santayana: A Biography by John McCormick

• Ian Hacking

  • The False Prison: A Study of the Development of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy, Vol. I by David Pears
  • Wittgenstein’s Nephew by Thomas Bernhard

• Martin Pugh on the popularity of the welfare state

  • British Social Attitudes: The 1987 Report edited by Roger Jowell, Sharon Witherspoon and Lindsay Brock
  • Educational Opportunity and Social Change in England by Michael Sanderson
  • Wealth and Inequality in Britain by W.D. Rubinstein
  • A Property-Owning Democracy? Housing in Britain by M.J. Daunton
  • The Government of Space: Town Planning in Modern Society by Alison Ravetz

• David Gilmour

  • Franco by Juan Pablo Fusi, translated by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

• John Lanchester

  • The Messiah of Stockholm by Cynthia Ozick
  • The Birds of the Innocent Wood by Deirdre Madden
  • The Coast of Bohemia by Zdena Tomin

• Elizabeth Mavor

  • I know my own heart: The Diaries of Anne Lister, 1791-1840 edited by Helena Whitbread

• Ted Hughes
  Poem: ‘Glimpse’

• Rosamund Stanhope
  Poem: ‘Lapidary’

• Carolyn Steedman

  • Spoken History by George Ewart Evans

• Toby Forward
  Diary

• Owen Dudley Edwards

  • Something of Myself by Rudyard Kipling, edited by Robert Hampson, with an introduction Richard Holmes
  • Stalky & Co by Rudyard Kipling, with an introduction by Isabel Quigley
  • Kim by Rudyard Kipling, with an introduction Alan Sandison