CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Daniel Aaron
• Kevin Barry
• Owen Bennett-Jones
• Charlotte Brewer
• Peter Campbell
• Neil Corcoran
• Alistair Elliot
• Jon Elster
• Iain McGilchrist
• Karl Miller
• Fiona Pitt-Kethley
• Roy Porter
• Craig Raine
• Christopher Ricks
• C.H. Sisson
• Wendy Steiner

Contents

• Jon Elster
  When Communism dissolves

• Letters
  Richard Lansdown, I. Thomas, Frank Honigsbaum, Rosalind Mitchison, John Bayley, Phil Edwards, C.N. Gilmore, John Whitehead

• Owen Bennett-Jones
  After Ceausescu

• Karl Miller

  • Boswell: The Great Biographer. Journals: 1789-1795 by James Boswell, edited by Marlies Danziger and Frank Brady

• Fiona Pitt-Kethley
  Two Poems

• Charlotte Brewer

  • The State of the Language: 1990 Edition edited by Christopher Ricks and Leonard Michaels
  • Clichés and Coinages by Walter Redfern
  • Rhetoric: The Wit of Persuasion by Walter Nash

• Alistair Elliot
  Poem: ‘The Scribes’

• Craig Raine

  • Just Looking: Essays on Art by John Updike

• Daniel Aaron

  • Henry Adams by Ernest Samuels
  • The Letters of Henry Adams: Vols I-VI edited by J.C Levenson, Ernest Samuels, Charles Vandersee and Viola Hopkins-Winner

• Neil Corcoran

  • Under Briggflatts: A History of Poetry in Great Britain 1960-1988 by Donald Davie
  • Annunciations by Charles Tomlinson
  • Possible Worlds by Peter Porter
  • The boys who stole the funeral: A Novel Sequence by Les Murray

• C.H. Sisson

  • Richard Aldington: A Biography by Charles Doyle

• Iain McGilchrist

  • The Faber Book of Fevers and Frets edited by D.J. Enright

• Peter Campbell

  • An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge
  • The Thirteen-Gun Salute by Patrick O’Brian
  • Family Sins, and Other Stories by William Trevor

• Kevin Barry

  • No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O’Brien by Anthony Cronin

• Christopher Ricks
  Diary

• Wendy Steiner

  • Brain Sex: The Real Difference between Men and Women by Anne Moir and David Jessel

• Roy Porter

  • The Normal and the Pathological by Georges Canguilhem, translated by Carolyn Fawcett and Robert Cohen