Cover: Marc Chagall

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Barber
• Asa Briggs
• Jonathan Coe
• Raymond Fancher
• Orlando Figes
• Alastair Fowler
• Brian Harrison
• Geoffrey Hawthorn
• Michael Longley
• Walter Nash
• Patrick O’Brian
• Patrick Parrinder
• Peter Pulzer
• Alan Ryan
• M.A. Screech
• Stephen Sedley
• C.H. Sisson
• Julian Symons

Contents

• Peter Pulzer

  • The Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph by Robert Wistrich
  • Vienna and the Jews, 1867-1938: A Cultural History by Steven Beller
  • The German-Jewish Economic Elite 1820-1935: A Socio-Cultural Profile by W.E. Mosse
  • Decadence and Innovation: Austro-Hungarian Life and Art at the Turn of the Century edited by Robert Pynsent
  • The Torch in My Ear by Elias Canetti, translated by Joachim Neugroschel
  • From Vienna to Managua: Journey of a Psychoanalyst by Marie Langer, translated by Margaret Hooks

• Letters
  J.A. Simpson, M.R. Meadmore, Colin McGinn, Maurice Hindle, Editors, ‘London Review’, Sebastian Cody, Bruno Nightingale, Alistair Elliot, Morwenna Griffiths, Margaret Whitford, David Mills

• Jonathan Coe

  • Grand Inquisitor: Memoirs by Robin Day
  • Beginning by Kenneth Branagh
  • Storm over 4: A Personal Account by Jeremy Isaacs

• Geoffrey Hawthorn

  • The Other Path: The Invisible Revolution in the Third World by Hernando de Soto, translated by June Abbott
  • Cocaine: White Gold Rush in Peru by Edmundo Morales
  • A Concise Economic History of the World: From Paleolithic Times to the Present by Rondo Cameron

• Alan Ryan

  • Burke and the Fall of Language: The French Revolution as Linguistic Event by Steven Blakemore
  • The Impact of the French Revolution on European Consciousness edited by H.T. Mason and William Doyle
  • The French Revolution and the Enlightenment in England 1789-1832 by Seamus Deane

• Orlando Figes

  • Russia’s Rulers Under the Old Regime by Dominic Lieven

• John Barber

  • The Long Road to Freedom: Russia and Glasnost by Walter Laqueur
  • Glasnost in Action: Cultural Renaissance in Russia by Alec Nove
  • Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution by R.W. Davies
  • Beyond Perestroika: The Future of Gorbachev’s USSR by Ernest Mandel, translated by Gus Fagan
  • Perestroika in Perspective: The Design and Dilemmas of Soviet Reform by Padma Desai

• Brian Harrison

  • The Blind Victorian: Henry Fawcett and British Liberalism edited by Lawrence Goldman

• Asa Briggs

  • The Conquest of Water: The Advent of Health in the Industrial Age by Jean-Pierre Goubert

• Patrick O’Brian

  • Last Voyages. Cavendish, Hudson, Ralegh: The Original Narratives edited by Philip Edwards
  • The Nagle Journal: A Diary for the Life of Jacob Nagle, Sailor, from the Year 1775 to 1841 edited by John Dann
  • Journal of a Voyage with Bering, 1741-1742 by Georg Wilhelm Steller, edited by O.W. Frost, translated by Margritt Engel and O.W. Frost

• Michael Longley
  Poem: ‘The Butchers’

• Raymond Fancher

  • The Burt Affair by Robert Joynson

• Julian Symons

  • The Politics of Literary Reputation: The Making and Claiming of ‘St George’ Orwell by John Rodden

• C.H. Sisson

  • Edgell Rickword: A Poet at War by Charles Hobday

• Walter Nash

  • The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
  • The Memoirs of Lord Byron by Robert Nye
  • All you need by Elaine Feinstein
  • The woman who talked to herself by A.L. Barker
  • Restoration by Rose Tremain

• M.A. Screech

  • The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation by Alistair McGrath
  • Pastor and Laity in the Theology of Jean Gerson by Catherine Brown
  • Collected Works of Erasmus: Vols XXVII and XXVIII edited by A.H.T. Levi

• Alastair Fowler

  • Melodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language by John Hollander
  • Second World and Green World: Studies in Renaissance Fiction-Making by Harry Berger

• Stephen Sedley
  Diary

• Patrick Parrinder

  • Stirrings Still by Samuel Beckett
  • Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho by Samuel Beckett
  • ‘Make sense who may’: Essays on Samuel Beckett’s Later Works edited by Robin Davis and Lance Butler