Cover: Jez Coulson

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• T.H. Breen
• Christine Brooke-Rose
• John Cannon
• Peter Clarke
• Ian Hamilton
• Jose Harris
• Christopher Hitchens
• Philip Horne
• V.G. Kiernan
• Brad Leithauser
• Alan Macfarlane
• Candia McWilliam
• Patrick O’Brian
• Tom Shippey
• Matt Simpson
• Iain Sinclair
• C.H. Sisson
• A.J.P. Taylor
• Michael Wood
• Blair Worden

Contents

• Iain Sinclair

  • Pit Bull by Scott Ely

• Letters
  Salman Rushdie, Gordon Guthrie, Michael Nelson, R.G. Steele, Gabriel Austin, Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Valerie Grosvenor Myer

• Ian Hamilton

  • The Dictionary of National Biography: 1981-1985 edited by Lord Blake and C.S. Nicholls

• Christopher Hitchens

  • Tom Driberg: His Life and Indiscretions by Francis Wheen

• Peter Clarke

  • Disraeli by John Vincent

• Jose Harris

  • The Rise of Professional Society: England since 1880 by Harold Perkin

• Alan Macfarlane writes about the crisis in Nepal

  • Fatalism and Development: Nepal’s Struggle for Modernisation by Dor Bahadur Bista

• Letters to an Editor – written by his contributor, A.J.P. Taylor, to Kingsley Martin of the ‘New Statesman’ at various times from 1951 to 1964

• Blair Worden

  • Thomas Starkey and the Commonweal by Tom Mayer
  • Politics and Literature in the Reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII by Alistair Fox
  • The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn: Family Portraits at the Court of Henry VIII by Retha Warnicke
  • English Travellers Abroad 1604-1667 by John Stoye

• Tom Shippey

  • The Medieval Woman by Edith Ennan, translated by Edmund Jephcott
  • Not of woman born: Representations of Caesarean Birth in Medieval and Renaissance Culture by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
  • Childhood in the Middle Ages by Shulamith Shahar
  • Lovesickness in the Middle Ages: The Viaticum and its Commentaries by Mary Wack
  • Barbarolexis: Medieval Writing and Sexuality by Alexandre Leupin, translated by Kate Cooper

• Brad Leithauser
  Poem: ‘A Candle’

• Patrick O’Brian

  • The Travels of Mendes Pinto by Fernao Mendes Pinto, translated by Rebecca Catz
  • The Grand Peregrination by Maurice Collis

• Matt Simpson
  Poem: ‘Part of One’s Education’

• C.H. Sisson
  Poem: ‘Turf’

• V.G. Kiernan

  • Luther: Man between God and the Devil by Heiko Oberman, translated by Eileen Walliser-Schwarzbart

• John Cannon

  • A Polite and Commercial People: England 1727-1783 by Paul Langford
  • Voters, Patrons and Parties: The Unreformed Electorate of Hanoverian England, 1734-1832 by Frank O’Gorman

• T.H. Breen

  • The First Salute by Barbara Tuchman
  • Sister Republics: The Origins of French and American Republicanism by Patrice Higonnet
  • Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America by Edmund Morgan

• Candia McWilliam

  • Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee
  • Meatless Days by Sara Suleri

• Michael Wood

  • The Innocent by Ian McEwan

• Christine Brooke-Rose
  Diary

• Philip Horne

  • Love and Garbage by Ivan Klima, translated by Ewald Osers
  • The Storyteller by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen Lane
  • The Chase by Alejo Carpentier, translated by Alfred Mac Adam
  • Aura by Carlos Fuentes, translated by Lysander Kemp