Cover: John Thomson

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Ian Aitken
• John Bayley
• Mary Beard
• Alan Bennett
• Angela Carter
• Susannah Clapp
• David Craig
• Seamus Heaney
• Christopher Hitchens
• Michael Hofmann
• Ian Jack
• Frank Kermode
• John Lanchester
• Karl Miller
• Gunnar Pettersson
• William Rodgers
• Stephen Spender
• Anthony Thwaite
• Mary-Kay Wilmers
• Theodore Zeldin

Contents

• Alan Bennett
  The Lady in the Van

• Letters
  Peter Biller, Paul Roazen, Christopher Small, Christopher Price, Brian Stone, Andrew Graham-Yooll, Richard Murphy, Editors, ‘London Review’

• Christopher Hitchens

  • The Rushdie File edited by Lisa Appignanesi and Sara Maitland
  • CounterBlasts No 4: Sacred Cows by Fay Weldon
  • Salman Rushdie and the Third World: Myths of the Nation by Timothy Brennan

• John Bayley

  • Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver
  • The Open Work by Umberto Eco, translated by Anna Cancogni

• Ian Aitken

  • Dick Crossman: A Portrait by Tam Dalyell

• William Rodgers

  • Livingstone’s Labour: A Programme for the Nineties by Ken Livingstone

• Mary-Kay Wilmers

  • Margaret, Daughter of Beatrice: A Politician’s Psycho-Biography of Margaret Thatcher by Leo Abse

• Mary Beard

  • After Thatcher by Paul Hirst
  • Out of Apathy: Voices of the New Left Thirty Years On
  • Essays on Politics and Literature by Bernard Crick

• Seamus Heaney
  Six Poems

• Frank Kermode

  • Aganist Deconstruction by John Ellis
  • The New Historicism by H. Aram Veeser
  • Rethinking Historicism: Critical Essays in Romantic History by Marjorie Levinson, Marilyn Butler, Jerome McGann and Paul Hamilton
  • Towards a Literature of Knowledge by Jerome McGann
  • The Stoic in Love: Selected Essays on Literature and Ideas by A.D. Nuttall

• Stephen Spender
  What I believe

• Angela Carter
  The Merchant of Shadows

• Anthony Thwaite

  • Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath by Anne Stevenson

• John Lanchester

  • The Letters of John Cheever edited by Benjamin Cheever
  • Mary McCarthy by Carol Gelderman
  • The company she keeps by Mary McCarthy

• Susannah Clapp

  • Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography by Claire Harman
  • For Sylvia: An Honest Account by Valentine Ackland

• David Craig

  • Touching the void by Joe Simpson
  • Climbers by M. John Harrison

• Michael Hofmann
  Poem: ‘Lament for Crassus’

• Theodore Zeldin

  • Pan Encyclopedia edited by Judith Hannam
  • Longman Encyclopedia edited by Asa Briggs
  • International Encyclopedia of Communications: Vols I-IV edited by Erik Barnouw
  • The Cambridge Encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives edited by Francis Robinson
  • Concise Encyclopedia of Islam by Cyril Glass
  • The World’s Religions by Ninian Smart
  • The New Physics edited by Paul Davies
  • The Middle Ages: A Concise Encyclopedia by H.R. Loyn
  • China in World History by S.A.M. Adshead

• Ian Jack

  • From Moorepark to Wine Alley: The Rise and Fall of a Glasgow Housing Scheme by Sean Damer

• Karl Miller
  Diary

• Gunnar Pettersson

  • Under Fire: My Own Story by Simon Hayward