Cover: David King

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Bayley
• Gordon Brown
• Rupert Cornwell
• Ruth Fainlight
• Mark Ford
• David Gilmour
• Jeremy Harding
• John Hume
• Brad Leithauser
• Ross McKibbin
• Glyn Maxwell
• Adam Phillips
• Paul Sayer
• Tom Shippey
• Jon Silkin
• John Sturrock
• John Sutherland
• Anthony Thwaite
• Philip Williamson

Contents

• Gordon Brown

  • Thatcherism edited by Robert Skidelsky
  • The Hard Road to Renewal: Thatcherism and the Crisis of the Left by Stuart Hall

• Letters
  Mark Frankland, Michael Nelson, Stuart Macintyre, Edward Said, Richard Bowring, Editors, ‘London Review’, Rosalind Mitchison, David Craig

• Ross McKibbin

  • The Keynesian Revolution in the Making, 1924-1936 by Peter Clarke

• John Hume on the end of the Unionist veto in Ulster

• Tom Shippey

  • A Turbulent, Seditious and Factious People: John Bunyan and his Church by Christopher Hill
  • The Premature Reformation: Wycliffite Texts and Lollard History by Anne Hudson

• David Gilmour

  • Asad: The Struggle for the Middle East by Patrick Seale

• John Bayley

  • The Lost Voices of World War One: An International Anthology of Writers, Poets and Playwrights edited by Tim Cross
  • Poems by Paul Celan, translated by Michael Hamburger
  • Flights of Passage: Reflections of a World War Two Aviator by Samuel Hynes

• Philip Williamson

  • The Coming of the First World War edited by R.J.W. Evans and Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann
  • The Experience of World War One by J.M. Winter
  • Russia and the Allies 1917-1920. Vol II: The Road to Intervention, March-November 1918 by Michael Kettle
  • Douglas Haig 1861-1928 by Gerald De Groot
  • Nothing of Importance: A Record of Eight Months at the Front with a Welsh Battalion by Bernard Adams
  • 1914-1918: Voices and Images of the Great War by Lyn Macdonald

• Brad Leithauser
  Poem: ‘A Night Dive’

• Glyn Maxwell
  Poem: ‘Sitcom’

• Jon Silkin
  Poem: ‘Gypsy Moth’

• Rupert Cornwell

  • Philby: The Life and Views of the KGB Masterspy by Phillip Knightley
  • Mask of Treachery: The First Documented Dossier on Blunt, MI5 and Soviet Subversion by John Costello
  • A Divided Life: A Biography of Donald Maclean by Robert Cecil
  • The Storm Birds: Soviet Post-War Defectors by Gordon Brook-Shepherd

• Anthony Thwaite

  • A Little Stranger by Candia McWilliam
  • Running wild by J.G. Ballard
  • Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler

• Mark Ford

  • W or the Memory of Childhood by Georges Perec, translated by David Bellos
  • Life: A User’s Manual by Georges Perec, translated by David Bellos

• John Sturrock

  • Journey to the end of the night by Louis Ferdinand Céline, translated by Ralph Manheim
  • La Vie de Céline by Frédéric Vitoux

• John Sutherland

  • Trollope and Character by Stephen Wall
  • The Chronicler of Barsetshire: A Life of Anthony Trollope by R.H. Super
  • Dickens: A Biography by Fred Kaplan
  • Charlotte Brontë by Rebecca Fraser

• Ruth Fainlight
  Poem: ‘Early Rivers’

• Jeremy Harding
  Diary

• Adam Phillips

  • Mother, Madonna, Whore: The Idealisation and Denigration of Motherhood by Estela Welldon

• Paul Sayer

  • Thou shalt not uncover thy mother’s nakedness by George Hayim
  • My Father’s House by Sylvia Fraser