CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Barton
• John Bayley
• Marilyn Butler
• Amit Chaudhuri
• Tony Gould
• Seamus Heaney
• Michael Hofmann
• John Lanchester
• Edna Longley
• W.G. Runciman
• Stephen Sedley
• Tom Shippey
• George Steiner
• Ian Taylor
• Ian Williams

Contents

• Stephen Sedley writes about the state of the law, and about the wild wood that surrounds it

  • A Matter of Justice: The Legal System in Ferment by Michael Zander
  • The Coercive State: The Decline of Democracy in Britain by Paddy Hillyard and Janie Percy-Smith

• Letters
  Sylvia Lawson, Jeremy Sheehy, Jose Brunner, Norman Fruman, Alison Weir, Ketaki Kushari Dyson, Dan Latimer, J.E.M. Latham, Michael Dibdin, Roderigo Lopez, D.A.N. Jones

• Ian Williams

  • Indictment: Power and Politics In the Construction Industry by David Morrell

• Ian Taylor

  • Regulating the City: Competition, Scandal and Reform by Michael Clarke
  • Regulating fraud: White-Collar Crime and the Criminal Process by Michael Levi

• Seamus Heaney
  Anglo-Irish Occasions

• Tom Shippey

  • Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard by Russell Miller
  • Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard
  • Mission Earth. Vol. V: Fortune of Fear by L. Ron Hubbard
  • Mission Earth. Vol. VI: Death Quest by L. Ron Hubbard

• George Steiner

  • Visions and Blueprints: Avant-Garde Culture and Radical Politics in Early 20th-century Europe edited by Edward Timms and Peter Collier

• Marilyn Butler

  • In Frankenstein’s Shadow: Myth, Monstrosity and 19th-century Writing by Chris Baldick

• John Barton

  • The Literary Guide to the Bible edited by Robert Alter and Frank Kermode

• Michael Hofmann
  Three Poems

• John Bayley

  • The Hand, Great Anarch! India 1921-1952 by Nirad Chaudhuri
  • The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian by Nirad Chaudhuri

• Amit Chaudhuri
  Sunday

• Tony Gould

  • Mary and Richard: The Story of Richard Hillary and Mary Booker by Michael Burn

• John Lanchester

  • S.: A Novel by John Updike

• W.G. Runciman
  Diary

• Edna Longley

  • Under Storm’s Wing by Helen Thomas and Myfanwy Thomas