Cover: Matt Glass

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• T.H. Barrett
• Owen Bennett-Jones
• Jonathan Coe
• D.J. Enright
• Barbara Everett
• Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
• P.N. Furbank
• Ian Gilmour
• Alethea Hayter
• Selima Hill
• Anne Hollander
• D.A.N. Jones
• John Lanchester
• Victor Mallet
• Onora O’Neill
• Patrick Procktor
• George Steiner
• Susan Rubin Suleiman

Contents

• D.J. Enright

  • I don’t feel old: The Experience of Later Life by Paul Thompson, Catherine Itzin and Michele Abendstern

• Letters
  Julian Zinovieff, Nicolas Walter, Nigel Smith, Boris Ford, Galen Strawson, Saral Waldorf, Harry Kemp

• Owen Bennett-Jones
  Down with Ceausescu! Long live Iliescu!

• Selima Hill
  Two Poems

• Victor Mallet

  • Intifada. The Palestinian Uprising: Israel’s Third Front by Ze’ev Schiff and Ehud Ya’ari
  • Winner takes all: A Season in Israel by Stephen Brook

• Ian Gilmour

  • Liberalisms. Essays in Political Philosophy by John Gray
  • The Voice of Liberal Learning: Michael Oakeshott on Education edited by Timothy Fuller
  • The Political Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott by Paul Franco
  • Conservatism by Ted Honderich

• George Steiner

  • Oxford Readings in Vergil’s ‘Aeneid’ edited by S.J. Harrison

• Barbara Everett

  • Miscellaneous Verdicts: Writings on Writers 1946-1989 by Anthony Powell
  • Haydn and the Valve Trumpet by Craig Raine

• P.N. Furbank

  • Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant by Philip Hoare

• Anne Hollander

  • Laura Ashley: A Life by Design by Anne Sebba

• Alethea Hayter

  • A Second Self: The Letters of Harriet Granville 1810-1845 edited by Virginia Surtees

• Patrick Procktor

  • A Life with Food by Peter Langan and Brian Sewell

• Jonathan Coe

  • Hopeful Monsters by Nicholas Mosley

• John Lanchester
  John Lanchester watches the World Cup

• D.A.N. Jones

  • A Sort of Clowning: Life and Times, 1940-59 by Richard Hoggart
  • Tilting at Don Quixote by Nicholas Wollaston
  • Finger Lickin’ Good: A Kentucky Childhood by Paul Levy
  • How Many Miles to Babylon? by Adewale Maja-Pearce

• Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

  • Shadows round the Moon by Roy Heath

• T.H. Barrett

  • The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia edited by Denis Sinor

• Onora O’Neill
  Berlin Diary

• Susan Rubin Suleiman

  • Theory of Religion by Georges Bataille, translated by Robert Hurley
  • My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man by Georges Bataille, translated by Austryn Wainhouse