Cover: Christopher Killip

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Michael Church
• Gabrielle Cox
• Paul Foot
• Isabel Hilton
• R.W. Johnson
• John Lanchester
• Edmund Leach
• Brad Leithauser
• Roger Lonsdale
• Hilary Mantel
• Hubert Moore
• Blake Morrison
• Michael Neve
• Claude Rawson
• David Trotter
• Daniel Waissbein
• Stephen Wall

Contents

• R.W. Johnson

  • Reagan’s America: Innocents at Home by Garry Wills

• Letters
  G.A. Cohen, Frank Palmer, Ann Dummett, Hilary Wainwright, Michael Howard, Christopher Norris

• Michael Neve

  • Benjamin Disraeli: Letters 1838-1841 edited by M.G Wiebe, J.B. Conacher, John Matthews and M.S. Millar
  • Salisbury: The Man and his Policies edited by Lord Blake and Hugh Cecil

• Isabel Hilton

  • The Land that Lost its Heroes: Argentina, the Falklands and Alfonsin by Jimmy Burns
  • Falklands: The Secret Plot by Oscar Raul Cardoso, Ricardo Kirschbaum and Eduardo van der Kooy, translated by Bernard Ethell

• Daniel Waissbein

  • ‘Sur’: A Study of the Argentine Literary Journal and its Role in the Development of a Culture, 1931-1970 by John King

• Hilary Mantel

  • Chinese Lives: An Oral History of Contemporary China by Zhang Xinxin and Sang Ye, edited by W.J.F. Jenner and Delia Davin

• Stephen Wall

  • Civil to Strangers by Barbara Pym
  • The Pleasure of Miss Pym by Charles Burkhart
  • The World of Barbara Pym by Janice Rossen
  • The Life and Work of Barbara Pym edited by Dale Salwak

• John Lanchester

  • The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst
  • The Beautiful Room is Empty by Edmund White

• Blake Morrison

  • Fifty Poems by Ian Hamilton
  • A Various Art edited by Andrew Crozier and Tim Longville
  • Between Leaps: Poems 1972-1985 by Brad Leithauser
  • Eldorado by William Scammell
  • Disbelief by John Ash
  • The Automatic Oracle by Peter Porter
  • Voice-over by Norman MacCaig

• Brad Leithauser

  • Natural Causes by Andrew Motion
  • A Short History of the Island of Butterflies by Nicholas Christopher

• Claude Rawson

  • John Dryden and His World by James Anderson Winn
  • John Dryden edited by Keith Walker

• Roger Lonsdale
  The Strange Case of John Bampfylde

• David Trotter

  • The Renewal of Literature: Emersonian Reflections by Richard Poirier

• Gabrielle Cox

  • Stalker by John Stalker
  • Stalker: The Search for the Truth by Peter Taylor

• Paul Foot
  Diary

• Edmund Leach

  • The Interface between the Written and the Oral by Jack Goody

• Hubert Moore
  Poem: ‘Manpower’

• Michael Church

  • Timebends: A Life by Arthur Miller
  • Vivien Leigh: The Life of Vivien Leigh by Alexander Walker