CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Julia Annas
• Julian Barnes
• John Bayley
• Peter Clarke
• David Drew
• Jonathan Glover
• Colin McGinn
• Victor Mallet
• Ray Monk
• Onora O’Neill
• Christopher Ricks
• W.G. Runciman
• John Simpson
• Christian Stevens
• Lawrence Stone

Contents

• John Simpson
  Warm Drops in Baghdad

• Letters
  Michael Howard, Michael Lee, Jonathan Bate, David Stern, Elaine Segal, Richard Horton, Editors, ‘London Review’

• Victor Mallet
  Knowing the Gulf

• Julian Barnes
  Candles for the living

• Colin McGinn

  • Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius by Ray Monk
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Student’s Memoir by Theodore Redpath

• Ray Monk
  Private Lives

• Julia Annas

  • The ‘Theaetetus’ of Plato translated by M.J. Levett and Myles Burnyeat

• Christian Stevens
  Poem: ‘Untitled’

• Jonathan Glover

  • Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity by Charles Taylor

• Onora O’Neill

  • The New Conservatism: Cultural Criticism and the Historians’ Debate by Jürgen Habermas, translated by Shierry Weber Nicholsen

• Lawrence Stone

  • The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy by David Cannadine

• Christopher Ricks

  • Bloomsbury Dictionary of Dedications edited by Adrian Room
  • Unauthorised Versions: Poems and their Parodies edited by Kenneth Baker
  • The Faber Book of Vernacular Verse edited by Tom Paulin

• David Drew

  • Leonard Bernstein by Joan Peyser
  • Leonard Bernstein by Michael Freedland
  • Leonard Bernstein by Peter Gradenwitz
  • Make the music: The Life and Work of Marc Blitzstein by Eric Gordon

• Peter Clarke

  • Friends in High Places: Who runs Britain? by Jeremy Paxman
  • The Sunday Times Book of the Rich by Philip Beresford

• W.G. Runciman
  Diary

• John Bayley

  • Jean Rhys by Carole Angier
  • A Lot to Ask: A Life of Barbara Pym by Hazel Holt