Cover: Warren Faidley

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Bayley
• Patricia Beer
• Dinah Birch
• Peter Clarke
• Don Coles
• J. Arch Getty
• Ian Hamilton
• F.H. Hinsley
• Philip Horne
• D.A.N. Jones
• John Lanchester
• Colin McGinn
• Ross McKibbin
• Patrick O’Brian
• Philip Robins
• J.P. Stern

Contents

• Colin McGinn

  • The Meaning of Life, and Other Essays by A.J. Ayer

• Letters
  Geoffrey Minish, J.S. Malikail, Richard Bowring, Xandra Hardie, Ted Honderich, Craig Raine, M.J. Devaney, Michael Taylor, John Moynihan

• Ian Hamilton

  • Clever Hearts: Desmond and Molly MacCarthy by Hugh Cecil and Mirabel Cecil

• Ross McKibbin

  • The Alternative: Politics for a Change edited by Ben Pimlott, Anthony Wright and Tony Flower

• Peter Clarke

  • Ideas and Politics in Modern Britain edited by J.C.D. Clark
  • The Philosopher on Dover Beach by Roger Scruton

• J. Arch Getty

  • Soviet Disunion: A History of the Nationalities Problem in the USSR by Bohdan Nahaylo and Victor Swoboda

• Philip Robins
  Engulfed

• F.H. Hinsley

  • Other Losses: An Investigation into the Mass Deaths of German Prisoners of War after World War Two by James Bacque

• Patrick O’Brian

  • The U-Boat War in the Atlantic 1939-1945 by Günter Hessler and introduced by Andrew Withers
  • Business in Great Waters: The U-Boat Wars, 1916-1945 by John Terraine

• John Bayley

  • A Wicked Irony: The Rhetoric of Lermontov’s ‘A Hero of Our Time’ by Andrew Barratt and A.D.P. Briggs
  • The Battle for Childhood: Creation of a Russian Myth by Andrew Baruch Wachtel

• Don Coles
  Poem: ‘Forests of the Medieval World’

• J.P. Stern

  • Unmodern Observations by Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Herbert Golder, Gary Brown and William Arrowsmith
  • The Importance of Nietzsche by Erich Heller

• Patricia Beer
  Poem: ‘Cockcrow’

• D.A.N. Jones

  • People of the Black Mountains. Vol. II: The Eggs of the Eagle by Raymond Williams
  • In the Blue Light of African Dreams by Paul Watkins
  • Friedrich Harris: Shooting the hero by Philip Purser
  • The Journey Home by Dermot Bolger
  • Evenings at Mongini’s by Russell Lucas

• Dinah Birch

  • The Sign of Angellica: Women, Writing and Fiction, 1660-1800 by Janet Todd
  • Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian Britain by Mary Poovey
  • The Woman Question. Society and Literature In Britain and America, 1837-1883: Vols I-III edited by Elizabeth Helsinger, Robin Lauterbach Sheets and William Veeder
  • Sexual Science: The Victorian Construction of Womanhood by Cynthia Eagle Russett

• John Lanchester
  Diary

• Philip Horne

  • Henry James and Edith Wharton: Letters 1900-1915 edited by Lyall Powers