CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Barber
• Adam Begley
• Ian Gilmour
• Dan Jacobson
• R.W. Johnson
• Boris Kagarlitsky
• Sylvia Lawson
• John Lloyd
• Giles Merritt
• John Naughton
• Martin Pugh
• Iain Sinclair
• George Steiner
• Anthony Thwaite
• Blair Worden
• Patrick Wright

Contents

• George Steiner

  • Joseph de Maistre: An Intellectual Militant by Richard Lebrun

• Letters
  Lewis Freed, John Whitehead, Bernard Richards, Editors, ‘London Review’

• Blair Worden

  • Algernon Sidney and the English Republic 1623-1677 by Jonathan Scott
  • Seeds of Liberty: 1688 and the Shaping of Modern Britain by John Miller
  • Reluctant Revolutionaries: Englishmen and the Revolution of 1688 by W.A. Speck
  • War and Economy in the Age of William III and Marlborough by D.W. Jones
  • Robert Harley: Speaker, Secretary of State and Premier Minister by Brian Hill
  • A Kingdom without a King: The Journal of the Provisional Government in the Revolution of 1688 by Robert Beddard

• Sylvia Lawson

  • Games with Shadows by Neal Ascherson

• Ian Gilmour

  • Macmillan 1894-1956 by Alistair Horne

• John Lloyd

  • Office without Power: Diaries 1968-72 by Tony Benn

• Giles Merritt

  • Upwardly Mobile by Norman Tebbit
  • Reflect on things past: The Memoirs of Lord Carrington

• R.W. Johnson
  Black on Black

• Boris Kagarlitsky, one of the leaders of the left-wing opposition in the Soviet Union, talks to Robin Blackburn

• John Barber

  • The Gorbachev Phenomenon: A Historical Interpretation by Moshe Lewin
  • The Thinking Reed: Intellectuals and the Soviet State from 1917 to the Present by Boris Kagarlitsky, translated by Brian Pearce
  • Eastern Europe, Gorbachev and Reform: The Great Challenge by Karen Dawisha

• Iain Sinclair

  • The Grass Arena by John Healy

• John Naughton

  • Live from Number 10: The Inside Story of Prime Ministers and Television by Michael Cockerell

• Martin Pugh

  • British Social Trends since 1900: A Guide to the Changing Social Structure of Britain edited by A.H. Halsey
  • Inside the Think Tank: Advising the Cabinet 1971-1983 by Tessa Blackstone and William Plowden
  • Lobbying: An Insider’s Guide to the Parliamentary Process by Alf Dubs

• Anthony Thwaite
  Poem: ‘Civil Service’

• Patrick Wright
  Diary

• Dan Jacobson

  • T.S. Eliot and Prejudice by Christopher Ricks

• Adam Begley

  • Libra by Don DeLillo