Cover: Bob Gannon

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• George Ball
• John Bayley
• Linda Colley
• Don Cook
• Philip Horne
• Danny Karlin
• Frank Kermode
• Zachary Leader
• Jerome McGann
• Ross McKibbin
• Peter Pulzer
• Craig Raine
• Alan Rusbridger
• Julian Rushton
• Colin Thubron
• Hugo Williams

Contents

• George Ball
  New World

• Letters
  A.J. Ayer, Colin McGinn, J.P. Stern, Anders Ferm, Maqbool Aziz, John Haffenden, C.K. Stead, Peter Cadogan, Jonathan Raban, A. Banerjee

• Don Cook

  • Memoirs by Andrei Gromyko, translated by Harold Shukman
  • Kennan and the Art of Foreign Policy by Anders Stephanson

• Ross McKibbin

  • Politics for a Rational Left: Political Writings, 1977-88 by Eric Hobsbawm

• Peter Pulzer
  Mrs Thatcher’s Universities

• Linda Colley

  • Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama
  • The Oxford History of the French Revolution by William Doyle
  • The Shadow of the Guillotine: Britain and the French Revolution by David Bindman

• Jerome McGann

  • Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century by Greil Marcus

• Hugo Williams
  Poem: ‘The Apotheosis of Sunny Jim’

• Zachary Leader

  • Ripley Bogle by Robert McLiam Wilson
  • The Burnt House by Adam Lively
  • Two Women of London: The Strange Case of Ms Jekyll and Mrs Hyde by Emma Tennant
  • The Magic Drum by Emma Tennant

• Craig Raine

  • Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays 1967-87 by Chinua Achebe

• Colin Thubron

  • What am I doing here by Bruce Chatwin

• John Bayley

  • The Essential Wyndham Lewis edited by Julian Symons

• Frank Kermode

  • A History of the World in 10½ Chapters by Julian Barnes

• Philip Horne and Danny Karlin
  Diary

• Julian Rushton

  • Berlioz 1803-1832: The Making of an Artist by David Cairns

• Alan Rusbridger

  • The Whitelaw Memoirs by William Whitelaw