CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Gabriele Annan
• John Bayley
• Peter Campbell
• Nicholas Canny
• Robert Crawford
• Mark Ford
• Jeremy Harding
• Christopher Hitchens
• D.A.N. Jones
• Frank Kermode
• John Lanchester
• Ross McKibbin
• Rosalind Mitchison
• Adam Phillips
• Fiona Pitt-Kethley
• Harriet Ritvo
• W.G. Runciman
• Wendy Steiner
• John Sturrock

Contents

• Ross McKibbin
  Mrs Thatcher’s Ecstasy

• Letters
  Paula Backscheider, Malcolm Deas, Brian Quinn Robbins, S.J. Fisher, James Wood

• W.G. Runciman

  • The Ideologies of Class: Social Relations in Britain 1880-1950 by Ross McKibbin

• Adam Phillips

  • Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia by Julia Kristeva, translated by Leon Roudiez
  • Surviving trauma: Loss, Literature and Psychoanalysis by David Aberbach

• Gabriele Annan

  • A Young Girl’s Diary edited by Daniel Gunn and Patrick Guyomard

• Fiona Pitt-Kethley
  Poem: ‘No Smoking’

• John Bayley

  • William Gerhardie: A Biography by Dido Davies
  • Memoirs of a Polyglot by William Gerhardie
  • Futility by William Gerhardie
  • God’s Fifth Column: A Biography of the Age 1890-1940 by William Gerhardie, edited by Michael Holroyd and Robert Skidelsky

• John Sturrock

  • Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters 1940-1977 edited by Dmitri Nabokov and Matthew Bruccoli

• Frank Kermode

  • Where I fell to Earth: A Life in Four Places by Peter Conrad
  • May Week was in June by Clive James

• Harriet Ritvo

  • The Politics of Evolution: Morphology, Medicine and Reform in Radical London by Adrian Desmond

• Peter Campbell

  • Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos
  • The Culture of Print edited by Roger Chartier
  • Symbols of Ideal Life by Maren Stange
  • The Lines of My Hand by Robert Frank

• Mark Ford
  Two Poems

• Rosalind Mitchison

  • The British Isles: A History of Four Nations by Hugh Kearney
  • Cromartie: Highland Life 1650-1914 by Eric Richards and Monica Clough
  • Jacobitism and the English People, 1688-1788 by Paul Kléber Monod

• Robert Crawford

  • O Choille gu Bearradh/From Wood to Ridge: Collected Poems in Gaelic and English by Sorley MacLean

• John Lanchester

  • Chicago Loop by Paul Theroux
  • Lies of Silence by Brian Moore
  • Amongst Women by John McGahern
  • The Condition of Ice by Christopher Burns

• Jeremy Harding

  • Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix and Post-War Pop by Charles Shaar Murray
  • Autobiography by Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe

• D.A.N. Jones

  • That was business, this is personal: The Changing Faces of Professional Crime by Duncan Campbell

• Wendy Steiner
  London Diary

• Nicholas Canny

  • The Emancipist: Daniel O’Connell, 1830-1847 by Oliver Mac Donagh

• Christopher Hitchens

  • Against the Grain: An Autobiography by Boris Yeltsin, translated by Michael Glenny