Cover: Emile Zola

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Daniel Aaron
• John Bayley
• Dinah Birch
• Rupert Christiansen
• Alistair Elliot
• Stephen Fender
• Orlando Figes
• Robert Fisk
• Mark Ford
• Walter Nash
• David Pears
• Roy Porter
• Colin Ward
• John Willett
• Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Contents

• Dinah Birch

  • Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
  • Interlunar by Margaret Atwood
  • John Dollar by Marianne Wiggins
  • Broken Words by Helen Hodgman

• Letters
  Boris Kagarlitsky, Ann Kjellberg, Teresa Ebert, Philip Stewart, George Bernard, Robert Crawford, Ian Hamilton Finlay, David Nokes

• Colin Ward

  • Seasons of the Seal by Fred Bruemmer and Brian Davies
  • Whale Nation by Heathcote Williams
  • Falling for a dolphin by Heathcote Williams
  • Prisoners of the Seas by K.A. Gourlay
  • Progress for a Small Planet by Barbara Ward
  • Future Earth: Exploring the Frontiers of Space edited by Nigel Calder and John Newell
  • Sizewell B: An Anatomy of the Enquiry by Timothy O’Riordan, Ray Kemp and Michael Purdue
  • Early Green Politics by Peter Gould
  • Dreamers of the Absolute by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
  • The Coming of the Greens by Jonathon Porritt and David Winner
  • Ecology and Socialism by Martin Ryle

• Robert Fisk

  • The Shah’s Last Ride: The Story of the Exile, Misadventures and Death of the Emperor by William Shawcross

• David Pears

  • I: The Philosophy and Psychology of Personal Identity by Jonathan Glover
  • Choice: The Essential Element in Human Action by Alan Donagan

• Roy Porter

  • The Essential Book of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Vol. I: Theory by Liu Yanchi, translated by Fang Tingyu and Chen Laidi
  • The Essential Book of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Vol. II: Clinical Practice by Liu Yanchi, translated by Fang Tingyu and Chen Laidi

• Ruth Bernard Yeazell

  • The Letters of Edith Wharton edited by R.W.B. Lewis and Nancy Lewis
  • Women Artists, Women Exiles: ‘Miss Grief’ and Other Stories by Constance Fenimore Woolson, edited by Joan Myers Weimer

• Alistair Elliot
  Two Poems

• John Bayley

  • The Amis Anthology edited by Kingsley Amis
  • The Chatto Book of Nonsense Verse edited by Hugh Haughton

• Mark Ford

  • The Irish for No by Ciaran Carson
  • On Ballycastle Beach by Medbh McGuckian
  • Themes on a Variation by Edwin Morgan
  • Metro by George Szirtes
  • April Galleons by John Ashbery

• Walter Nash

  • Good English and the Grammarian by Sidney Greenbaum
  • Longman Guide to English Usage by Sidney Greenbaum and Janet Whitcut
  • Words in Time: A Social History of the English Vocabulary by Geoffrey Hughes

• Rupert Christiansen

  • Maria: Callas Remembered by Nadia Stancioff
  • Callas at Juilliard: The Master Classes by John Ardoin
  • Callas as they saw her edited by David Lowe
  • The Great Caruso by Michael Scott
  • Chaliapin by Victor Borovsky

• John Willett

  • Russian and Soviet Theatre: Tradition and the Avant-Garde by Constantin Rudnitsky, translated by Roxane Permar
  • The ‘Golden’ Twenties: Art and Literature in the Weimar Republic by Bärbel Schrader and Jürgen Schebera, translated by Katherine Vanovitch

• Daniel Aaron

  • Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of the Revolution by T.H. Breen

• Orlando Figes
  Diary

• Stephen Fender

  • Landscape and Written Expression in Revolutionary America: The world turned upside down by Robert Lawson-Peebles
  • Mark Twain’s Letters. Vol. I: 1853-1866 edited by Edgar Marquess Branch, Michael Frank and Kenneth Sanderson
  • A Writer’s America: Landscape in Literature by Alfred Kazin