CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• P.W. Atkins
• A.J. Ayer
• Paul Barker
• John Bayley
• John Broome
• Angela Carter
• William Doyle
• James Fenton
• Dan Jacobson
• Phillip Knightley
• Karl Miller
• Rosalind Mitchison
• Walter Nash
• David Norbrook
• Roy Porter
• Sheldon Rothblatt
• John Ryle
• Philip Towle

Contents

• John Ryle

  • And the band played on: Politics, People and the Aids Epidemic by Randy Shilts
  • Crisis: Heterosexual Behaviour in the Age of Aids by William Masters, Virginia Johnson and Robert Kilodny
  • The Forbidden Zone by Michael Lesy

• Letters
  Cynthia Chase, Geert Lernout, Deepak Lal, Eric Sams, Stanley Wells, David Francis

• Angela Carter

  • On Birth and Madness by Eric Rhode

• Roy Porter

  • The Public Health Challenge edited by Stephen Farrow
  • The Truth about the Aids Panic by Michael Fitzpatrick and Don Milligan
  • Dangerous Sexualities: Medico-Moral Politics in England since 1830 by Frank Mort
  • Medicine and Labour: The Politics of a Profession by Steve Watkins

• Philip Towle

  • Armageddon? Essays 1983-1987 by Gore Vidal
  • Empire by Gore Vidal
  • The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 by Paul Kennedy

• Karl Miller

  • The Monument by T. Behrens
  • The Passion of John Aspinall by Brian Masters

• P.W. Atkins

  • Medicine, Mind and the Double Brain by Anne Harrington
  • The Multiple Self edited by Jon Elster
  • Memory by Mary Warnock

• A.J. Ayer

  • A Theory of Determinism: The Mind, Neuroscience and Life-Hopes by Ted Honderich

• Rosalind Mitchison

  • The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction by Bernard Bailyn
  • Voyagers to the West: Emigration from Britain to America on the Eve of the Revolution by Bernard Bailyn
  • Migration and Society in Early Modern England edited by Peter Clark and David Souden
  • Gypsy-Travellers in 19th-Century Society by David Mayall

• John Broome

  • On Ethics and Economics by Amartya Sen
  • The Standard of Living by Amartya Sen, edited by Geoffrey Hawthorn

• Sheldon Rothblatt

  • War and the Image of Germany: British Academics 1914-1918 by Stuart Wallace

• James Fenton
  Poem: ‘The Milkfish Gatherers’

• William Doyle

  • Joseph II. Vol. I: In the Shadow of Maria Theresa 1741-1780 by Derek Beales
  • Finance and Government under Maria Theresia 1740-1780 by P.G.M. Dickson

• David Norbrook

  • Dragons Teeth: Literature in the English Revolution by Michael Wilding
  • Apocalyptic Marvell: The Second Coming in 17th-Century Poetry by Margarita Stocker
  • The Politics of Mirth: Jonson, Herrick, Milton, Marvell, and the Defence of Old Holiday Pastimes by Leah Marcus
  • Milton: A Study in Ideology and Form by Christopher Kendrick

• John Bayley
  Innocence

• Dan Jacobson on the story of stories

  • The Short Story: Henry James to Elizabeth Bowen by John Bayley

• Walter Nash

  • Scandal by Shusaku Endo, translated by Van Gessel
  • Hell Screen, Cogwheels, A Fool’s Life by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
  • Singular Rebellion by Saiichi Maruya, translated by Dennis Keene

• Paul Barker
  Diary

• Phillip Knightley

  • The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln by Bernard Wasserstein