Cover: David King

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Bayley
• Peter Campbell
• Susannah Clapp
• Martyn Crucefix
• Allen Curnow
• Paul Foot
• Philip Horne
• Christopher Longuet-Higgins
• Karl Miller
• David Nokes
• W.G. Runciman
• Alan Ryan
• Jeffrey Saver
• J.P. Stern
• Francis Wyndham

Contents

• Paul Foot

  • Britain’s Nuclear Nightmare by James Cutler and Rob Edwards

• Letters
  Jacques Derrida, Christopher Norris, Carol Rumens, John Stone, Anthony Easthope, Roy MacGregor-Hastie, Editors, ‘London Review’, Anthony Thwaite

• Alan Ryan

  • A History of the Jews by Paul Johnson
  • The Burning Bush: Anti-Semitism and World History by Barnet Litvinoff
  • Living with Anti-Semitism: Modern Jewish Responses edited by Jehuda Reinharz

• Karl Miller

  • The Drowned and the Saved by Prime Levi, translated by Raymond Rosenthal

• J.P. Stern

  • Freud: A Life for Our Time: A Life in Our Time by Peter Gay

• Jeffrey Saver

  • The Dreaming Brain by Allan Hobson

• Christopher Longuet-Higgins

  • The Computer and the Mind: An Introduction to Cognitive Science by P.N. Johnson-Laird

• Peter Campbell

  • Who got Einstein’s office? Eccentricity and Genius at the Institute for Advanced Study by Ed Regis
  • Chaos by James Gleick
  • The School of Genius by Anthony Storr

• Martyn Crucefix
  Poem: ‘Splinters’

• Allen Curnow
  Poem: ‘An Evening Light’

• David Nokes

  • Eros Revived: Erotica of the Enlightenment in England and America by Peter Wagner
  • ’Tis Nature’s Fault: Unauthorised Sexuality during the Enlightenment edited by Robert Purks Maccubin
  • The New Eighteenth Century: Theory, Politics, English Literature edited by Felicity Nussbaum and Laura Brown

• John Bayley

  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Margaret Forster
  • Selected Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Margaret Forster
  • The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Vol. III edited by Ian Jack and Rowena Fowler
  • The Complete Works of Robert Browning: Vol. VIII edited by Roma King and Susan Crowl

• Susannah Clapp

  • Criminal Justice: The True Story of Edith Thompson by René Weis

• Francis Wyndham talks about himself to Alan Hollinghurst

• W.G. Runciman
  Diary

• Philip Horne

  • The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
  • Pilgrims Way by Abdulrazak Gurnah
  • States of Emergency by André Brink
  • Moonrise, Moonset by Tadeusz Konwicki, translated by Richard Lourie