Cover: Jez Coulson

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Dinah Birch
• Alexander Cockburn
• Jonathan Coe
• Margaret Anne Doody
• Richard J. Evans
• Gavin Ewart
• Chauncey Loomis
• Richard Luckett
• Victor Mallet
• Sam Miller
• Rosalind Mitchison
• Andrew Motion
• Nicholas Penny
• Roy Porter
• J.P. Stern
• Janet Todd
• David Worswick

Contents

• Margaret Anne Doody

  • Eighteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology edited by Roger Lonsdale

• Letters
  Michael Mason, Christopher Hitchens, Walter Livingstone, Gillian Beer, Jacqueline Castles, C.H. Sisson

• Richard J. Evans
  One nation, two states

• J.P. Stern

  • The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust and German National Identity by Charles Maier
  • Historikerstreit
  • In Hitler’s Shadow: West German Historians and the Attempt to Escape from the Nazi Past by Richard Evans
  • Why did the heavens not darken? by Arno Mayer
  • A German Identity, 1770-1990 by Harold James
  • Die Republikaner: Phantombild der neuen Rechten by Claus Leggewie
  • Ich war dabei by Franz Schönhuber

• Richard Luckett

  • I.A. Richards: His Life and Work by John Paul Russo

• Nicholas Penny

  • The New Museology edited by Peter Vergo
  • The Romantic Interior: The British Collector at Home 1750-1850 by Clive Wainwright
  • Journal of the History of Collections, No 1 edited by Oliver Impey and Arthur MacGregor

• Andrew Motion
  Poem: ‘Run’

• Roy Porter

  • Health and the Rise of Civilisation by Mark Nathan Cohen
  • Nutrition and Economic Development in the 18th-Century Habsburg Monarchy: An Anthropomorphic History by John Komlos

• Gavin Ewart
  Poem: ‘Snooker Champion’

• Rosalind Mitchison

  • Health, Happiness and Security: The Creation of the National Health Service by Frank Honigsbaum
  • CounterBlasts No 5: Into the Dangerous World by Marina Warner

• David Worswick

  • The Economic Section, 1939-1961: A Study in Economic Advising by Alec Cairncross and Nita Watts
  • The Robert Hall Diaries. Vol. I: 1947-1953 edited by Alec Cairncross

• Victor Mallet

  • Liar’s Poker: Two Cities, True Greed by Michael Lewis
  • Lords of Poverty: The Free-Wheeling Lifestyles, Power, Prestige and Corruption of the Multi-Billion Dollar Aid Business by Graham Hancock
  • High Life by Taki
  • The Midas Touch: Money, People and Power from West to East by Anthony Sampson

• Alexander Cockburn
  Watsonville

• Janet Todd

  • Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up by Hermione Lee

• Dinah Birch

  • The Temple of my Familiar by Alice Walker
  • The Fog Line by Carol Birch
  • Home Life Four by Alice Thomas Ellis
  • The Fly in the Ointment by Alice Thomas Ellis
  • Words of Love by Philip Norman

• Jonathan Coe

  • Soho Square II edited by Ian Hamilton

• Sam Miller
  Diary

• Chauncey Loomis

  • The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the Northwest Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909 by Pierre Berton
  • Overland to Starvation Cove: With the Inuit in Search of Franklin 1878-1880 by Heinrich Klutschak and William Barr
  • Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition by Owen Beattie and John Geiger