Cover: René Bouët-Willaumez

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Jonathan Bate
• John Bayley
• Andrew Boyle
• Peter Campbell
• David Cannadine
• Alistair Elliot
• John Ellis
• James Fenton
• Ronald Fraser
• Ian Gilmour
• F.H. Hinsley
• Michael Hulse
• Frank Kermode
• Keith Kyle
• John Lloyd
• John Sutherland
• Mary-Kay Wilmers
• Richard Wollheim

Contents

• Ian Gilmour

  • Macmillan. Vol. II: 1957-1986 by Alistair Horne

• Letters
  George Steiner, Erik Svarny, John Lucas, Janet Adam Smith, Julian Symons, Barry Smith, G.O. Jones, Kathryn Metzenthin, Gunnar Pettersson, Barbara Collard, C.S. Nicholls, Nicolas Walter, Editors, ‘London Review’, Peter Gillman

• Keith Kyle

  • The Lives of Enoch Powell by Patrick Cosgrave

• John Lloyd
  Mr Poland throws a party

• Andrew Boyle

  • The Blake Escape: How we freed George Blake – and why by Michael Randle and Pat Pottle

• F.H. Hinsley

  • Ultra and Mediterranean Strategy 1941-1945 by Ralph Bennett

• David Cannadine

  • The Social Politics of Anglo-Jewry 1880-1920 by Eugene Black
  • The Persistence of Prejudice: Anti-Semitism in British Society during the Second World War by Tony Kushner
  • The Club: The Jews of Modern Britain by Stephen Brook

• Mary-Kay Wilmers

  • Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education by Sybille Bedford

• Frank Kermode

  • The Pleasures of Peace: Art and Imagination in Post-War Britain by Bryan Appleyard

• John Bayley

  • Memoir of Italo Svevo by Livia Veneziani Svevo, translated by Isabel Quigly

• Ronald Fraser

  • Federico Garcia Lorca by Ian Gibson

• John Sutherland

  • The Letters of Jack London edited by Earle Labor, Robert Leitz and Milo Shepard
  • Tolstoy by A.N. Wilson

• James Fenton
  Poem: ‘Bruisers and Dreamers’

• Michael Hulse
  Poem: ‘A Chinese Tale’

• Peter Campbell

  • I Modi. The Sixteen Pleasures: An Erotic Album of Renaissance Italy by Lynne Lawner
  • The Dress of the Venetians 1495-1525 by Stella Mary Newton
  • Fashion Drawings in ‘Vogue’: René Bouët-Willamez and Fashion Drawings in ‘Vogue’: Carl Erickson by William Parker
  • Women and Fashion by Caroline Evans and Minna Thornton

• John Ellis

  • Doing what comes naturally: Change, Rhetoric and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies by Stanley Fish

• Richard Wollheim
  Diary

• Jonathan Bate

  • Train, Train by Graham Coster
  • The Philosophers by Alex Comfort
  • The King of the Fields by Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Sister Hollywood by C.K. Stead
  • Penelope’s Hat by Ronald Frame

• Alistair Elliot
  Poem: ‘The Question of Food’