CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Paul Addison
• Gabriele Annan
• John Bayley
• Mary Beard
• Akeel Bilgrami
• Peter Clarke
• Basil Davidson
• Christopher Driver
• Raymond Fancher
• Peter Hall
• Christopher Hitchens
• Frank Kermode
• Andrew Motion
• Mark Ridley
• John Ryle
• Wendy Steiner
• Julian Symons
• Stephen Wall

Contents

• Peter Hall

  • Confessions of a Reluctant Theorist by W.G. Runciman

• Letters
  Andrew Horn, Graham Martin, George Bernard, David Nokes, Editors, ‘London Review’

• Christopher Hitchens

  • Not Many Dead: Journal of a Year in Fleet Street by Nicholas Garland
  • A Slight Case of Libel: Meacher v. Trelford and Others by Alan Watkins

• Andrew Motion
  Three Poems

• Frank Kermode

  • Ford Madox Ford by Alan Judd

• Paul Addison

  • 1940: Myth and Reality by Clive Ponting
  • British Intelligence in the Second World War. Vol. IV: Security and Counter-Intelligence by F.H. Hinsley and C.A.G. Simkins
  • Unauthorised Action: Mountbatten and the Dieppe Raid 1942 by Brian Loring Villa

• Basil Davidson

  • Struggle for the Balkans by Svetozar Vukmanovic, translated by Charles Bartlett

• Mark Ridley

  • Wonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould

• Wendy Steiner

  • The New Women and the Old Men: Love, Sex and the Women Question by Ruth Brandon

• Mary Beard

  • The Oxford Book of Marriage edited by Helge Rubinstein
  • The Oriental, the Ancient and the Primitive: Systems of Marriage and the Family in the Pre-Industrial Societies of Eurasia by Jack Goody

• John Ryle

  • Which of Us Two? The Story of a Love Affair by Colin Spencer

• Christopher Driver

  • The Ruffian on the Stair: Reflection on Death edited by Rosemary Dinnage
  • Death, Ritual and Bereavement edited by Ralph Houlbrooke
  • In the Face of Death by Peter Noll, translated by Hans Noll

• John Bayley

  • A.A. Milne: His Life by Ann Thwaite

• Stephen Wall

  • Death’s Darkest Face by Julian Symons
  • Vendetta by Michael Dibdin
  • Gallowglass by Barbara Vine

• Akeel Bilgrami

  • A Satanic Affair: Salman Rushdie and the Rage of Islam by Malise Ruthven

• Julian Symons

  • The Last World by Christoph Ransmayr, translated by John Woods
  • The End of Lieutenant Boruvka by Josef Skvorecky, translated by Paul Wilson
  • The Dwarves of Death by Jonathan Coe
  • Last Loves by Alan Sillitoe

• Peter Clarke
  Diary

• Raymond Fancher

  • Rebel with a Cause by H.J. Eysenck

• Gabriele Annan

  • McEnroe: Taming the Talent by Richard Evans