Cover: Angus McBean

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Stephen Ambrose
• Sissela Bok
• Ronald Bryden
• Linda Colley
• Richard Devine
• Ruth Dudley Edwards
• Ian Hacking
• Jeremy Harding
• P.N. Johnson-Laird
• Michael Mason
• Nicholas Penny
• Conrad Russell
• Matt Simpson
• Mona Simpson
• John Sutherland
• David Sylvester
• Anthony Thwaite
• Stephen Wall
• Michael Young

Contents

• Ronald Bryden

  • Olivier by Anthony Holden

• Letters
  Ron Taylor, Su Yüan-hsi, Jonathan Culler, Cynthia Chase, Peter Gay, Betty Caplan, Editors, ‘London Review’, N.P.B. Freeman, Paul Addison, Peter Jones, Peter Fryer, Henry Hope Reed, Montagu Bream, Bernard Denvir

• Conrad Russell

  • Bertrand Russell: A Political Life by Alan Ryan

• David Sylvester
  Late Picasso at the Tate

• Nicholas Penny

  • Picasso: Creator and Destroyer by Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington

• Sissela Bok

  • Sartre: A Life by Annie Cohen-Solal, translated by Anna Cancogni
  • Writing against: A Biography of Sartre by Ronald Hayman
  • Sartre: Romantic Rationalist by Iris Murdoch

• Michael Young

  • East End 1888: A Year in a London Borough among the Labouring Poor by William Fishman

• Stephen Ambrose

  • Citizen Cohn by Nicholas von Hoffman

• Jeremy Harding
  The War in Angola

• Ian Hacking

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

• Matt Simpson
  Poem: ‘Three from the Ward’

• P.N. Johnson-Laird

  • The Intentional Stance by Daniel Dennett

• Linda Colley

  • The Duel in European History: Honour and the Reign of Aristocracy by V.G. Kiernan
  • History, Classes and Nation-States: Selected Writings of Victor Kiernan edited by Harvey Kaye

• Michael Mason

  • Francis Place, 1771-1854: The Life of a Remarkable Radical by Dudley Miles
  • Radical Underworld: Prophets, Revolutionaries and Pornographers in London, 1795-1840 by Iain McCalman

• Stephen Wall

  • Quinn’s Book by William Kennedy
  • In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster

• Mona Simpson

  • Love in the Time Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Edith Grossman

• Anthony Thwaite

  • The Truth about Lorin Jones by Alison Lurie
  • Latecomers by Anita Brookner
  • Where the rivers meet by John Wain
  • About the Body by Christopher Burns
  • Stories by Elizabeth Jolley

• Ruth Dudley Edwards
  Diary

• John Sutherland

  • Mother London by Michael Moorcock
  • The Comforts of Madness by Paul Sayer
  • Sweet Desserts by Lucy Ellmann
  • Happiness by Theodore Zeldin

• Richard Devine
  Poem: ‘The Prometheus Ice Company’