Cover: Glen Baxter

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Gabriele Annan
• John Bayley
• Geoffrey Hawthorn
• Anne Hollander
• John Lanchester
• John Lloyd
• Ross McKibbin
• James Michie
• Patrick Parrinder
• Philip Purser
• Alan Ross
• Iain Sinclair
• Sherry Turkle
• E.S. Turner
• Hugo Young

Contents

• Sherry Turkle

  • Jacques Lacan and Co: A History of Psychoanalysis in France, 1925-1985 by Elisabeth Roudinesco, translated by Jeffrey Mehlman

• Letters
  Branka Magas, Stephen Greenblatt, Thomas Laqueur, Michael Mason, Richard Wilson, Angus Calder, Damian Grant, Stuart Proffitt

• Anne Hollander

  • Coco Chanel: A Biography by Axel Madsen

• Geoffrey Hawthorn

  • Nippon, New Superpower: Japan since 1945 by William Horsley and Roger Buckley
  • United Nations Human Development Report 1990 by Mahbub al Haq
  • Nationalism and International Society by James Mayall
  • The International Relations of Japan edited by Kathleen Newland

• John Lloyd

  • The KGB: The Inside Story of the Foreign Operations by Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky
  • Inside the KGB: Myth and Reality by Vladimir Kuzichkin

• Hugo Young

  • Listening for a Midnight Tram: Memoirs by John Junor

• John Lanchester

  • Stick it up your punter! The Rise and Fall of the ‘Sun’ by Peter Chippindale and Chris Horrie
  • All played out: The True Story of Italia ’90 by Pete Davies
  • Gazza! A Biography by Robin McGibbon

• Alan Ross
  Poem: ‘G. Lineker’

• Iain Sinclair

  • Weather by John Farrand
  • Weather Watch by Dick File
  • Climate Change: The IPCC Scientific Assessment edited by J.T. Houghton, G.J. Jenkins and J.J. Ephraums
  • Crop Circles: The Latest Evidence by Pat Delgado and Colin Andrews
  • The Stumbling Block, Its Index by B. Catling

• E.S. Turner

  • The English Spa 1560-1815: A Social History by Phyllis Hembry
  • The Medical History of Waters and Spas edited by Roy Porter

• Philip Purser

  • The Play of the Eyes by Elias Canetti, translated by Ralph Manheim
  • Yellow Street by Veza Canetti, translated by Ian Mitchell

• Gabriele Annan

  • The Snows of Yesteryear: Portraits for an Autobiography by Gregor von Rezzori, translated by H.F. Broch de Rothermann

• Patrick Parrinder

  • Curfew by Jose Donoso, translated by Alfred MacAdam
  • War Fever by J.G. Ballard
  • Great Climate by Michael Wilding
  • Honour thy father by Lesley Glaister

• Ross McKibbin
  Diary

• John Bayley

  • The Billiard Table Murders by Glen Baxter

• James Michie
  Poem: ‘Bath Death’