Cover: Wolf Suschitzky

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Perry Anderson
• Rosemary Ashton
• Dinah Birch
• Susannah Clapp
• David Craig
• Robert Crawford
• Paul Foot
• Michael Hofmann
• R.W. Johnson
• Peter Redgrove
• Neil Rennie
• William Rodgers
• C.J. Walker
• Marina Warner
• Kenneth White
• Dick Wilson

Contents

• R.W. Johnson writes about a national disgrace

  • Who Framed Colin Wallace? by Paul Foot

• Letters
  Ralph Russell, Rodney Pybus, Maurice Hindle, Bruno Nightingale, Kiffin Rockwell, George Szirtes

• Perry Anderson

  • A Treatise on Social Theory. Vol. II: Substantive Social Theory by W.G. Runciman

• Robert Crawford
  Poem: ‘Native Questions’

• Dick Wilson
  Amenability snaps in Tiananmen Square

• William Rodgers

  • The Challenge of Europe: Can Britain win? by Michael Heseltine

• David Craig

  • A Search for Scotland by R.F. Mackenzie
  • A Claim of Right for Scotland edited by Owen Dudley Edwards
  • The Eclipse of Scottish Culture by Craig Beveridge and Ronald Turnbull
  • The Bird Path: Collected Longer Poems by Kenneth White
  • Travels in the Drifting Dawn by Kenneth White

• Kenneth White
  Notes from an Outpost

• Michael Hofmann
  Two Poems

• Paul Foot

  • Talking Blues: The Police in their Own Words by Roger Graef

• Rosemary Ashton

  • The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. Vol. IV: 1847-1850 edited by Frederic Burkhardt and Sydney Smith
  • Darwin and the Novelists: Patterns of Science in Victorian Fiction by George Levine

• Peter Redgrove
  Poem: ‘White Midas’

• Dinah Birch

  • The Middleman, and Other Stories by Bharati Mukherjee
  • The Burning Boys by John Fuller
  • Termination Rock by Gillian Freeman
  • Blackground by Joan Aiken

• Susannah Clapp

  • Laughter and the Love of Friends: A Memoir 1945 to the Present Day by Ursula Wyndham
  • 1939: The Last Season of Peace by Angela Lambert
  • Rosehill: Portraits from a Midland City by Carol Lake

• Neil Rennie

  • The Pacific since Magellan. Vol. III: Paradise Found and Lost by O.H.K. Spate
  • Captain Bligh: The Man and his Mutinies by Gavin Kennedy
  • The Sublime Savage: James Macpherson and the Poems of Ossian by Fiona Stafford

• C.J. Walker
  Diary

• Marina Warner

  • The Romantic Child: From Runge to Sendak by Robert Rosenblum
  • Caldecott & Co: Notes on Books and Pictures by Maurice Sendak
  • Dear Mili by Wilhelm Grimm, translated by Ralph Manheim and Maurice Sendak
  • Grimms’ Bad Girls and Bold Boys: The Moral and Social Vision of the ‘Tales’ by Ruth Bottigheimer
  • The one who set out to study fear by Peter Redgrove