Cover: Fanny Eden

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Adam Begley
• Alan Bennett
• T.J. Binyon
• Kasia Boddy
• Raymond Carver
• Amit Chaudhuri
• Robert Crawford
• Christopher Driver
• Penelope Fitzgerald
• Paul Foot
• Roger Hardy
• Ian Jack
• Frank Kermode
• Walter Nash
• C.K. Stead
• John Sutherland
• John Tranter
• E.S. Turner
• Mary-Kay Wilmers

Contents

• Ian Jack

  • In for a Penny: The Unauthorised Biography of Jeffrey Archer by Jonathan Mantle

• Letters
  Anthony Rudolf, Juliet Flower MacCannell, Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Carlo Natali, Alastair Ross

• T.J. Binyon

  • Children of the Arbat by Anatoli Rybakov, translated by Harold Shukman
  • Pushkin House by Andrei Bitov, translated by Susan Brownsberger
  • The Queue by Vladimir Sorokin, translated by Sally Laird
  • Moscow 2042 by Vladimir Voinovich, translated by Richard Lourie
  • The Mushroom-Picker by Zinovy Zinik, translated by Michael Glenny
  • Chekago by Natalya Lowndes

• Alan Bennett
  Ten Days that Shook Me

• Frank Kermode

  • Bernard Shaw. Vol. I: The Search for Love, 1856-1898 by Michael Holroyd
  • Bernard Shaw: Collected Letters. Vol. IV edited by Dan Laurence
  • Shaw: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies. Vol. VIII edited by Stanley Weintraub
  • Shaw’s Sense of History by J.L. Wisenthal
  • Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad. Vol. III: 1903-1907 edited by Frederick Karl and Laurence Davies
  • Joseph Conrad: ‘Nostromo’ by Ian Watt

• Robert Crawford
  Two Poems

• Paul Foot

  • Wallis: Secret Lives of the Duchess of Windsor by Charles Higham
  • The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor by Michael Bloch

• Roger Hardy

  • Europe and the Mystique of Islam by Maxime Rodinson, translated by Roger Veinus
  • The Political Language of Islam by Bernard Lewis
  • Islam and Revolution in the Middle East by Henry Munson

• John Tranter
  Poem: ‘Lufthansa’

• E.S. Turner

  • Memories of Times Past by Louis Heren
  • Chances: An Autobiography by Mervyn Jones

• Raymond Carver died on 2 August. He talks here to Kasia Boddy about his stories and about his volume of selected poems, ‘In a Marine Light’, published last year

• Adam Begley

  • Elephant, and Other Stories by Raymond Carver
  • The Tidewater Tales by John Barth

• Amit Chaudhuri

  • Tigers, Durbars and Kings: Fanny Eden’s Indian Journals 1837-1838 edited by Janet Dunbar

• C.K. Stead
  Poem: ‘The Radiant Way’

• Walter Nash

  • Ice-Candy-Man by Bapsi Sidhwa
  • Mistaken Identity by Nayantara Sahgal
  • Baumgartner’s Bombay by Anita Desai

• Christopher Driver

  • William Walton: Behind the Façade by Susana Walton
  • Façade: Edith Sitwell Interpreted by Pamela Hunter

• Mary-Kay Wilmers
  Diary

• John Sutherland

  • The Secret Life of Wilkie Collins by William Clarke
  • Wilkie Collins: Women, Property and Propriety by Philip O’Neill

• Penelope Fitzgerald

  • William Morris: An Approach to the Poetry by J.M.S. Tompkins