Cover: G. Abbas

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Bayley
• Alan Bennett
• Julie Davidson
• Paul Delany
• William Empson
• Mark Ford
• Stephen Greenblatt
• Martin Hollis
• Frank Kermode
• Colin McGinn
• Rosalind Mitchison
• Harold Perkin
• Ian Pople
• Robert Service
• Avi Shlaim
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Avi Shlaim
  Israel and the Gulf

• Letters
  Noël Annan, Keith Flett, Stephen Frears, Frank Kermode, Hilary Gaskin, Jonathan Bate, Peter Campbell, Kenneth Rose, Editors, ‘London Review’

• Robert Service

  • The Russian Revolution 1899-1919 by Richard Pipes

• Harold Perkin

  • The Second Socialist Revolution: An Alternative Soviet Strategy by Tatyana Zaslavskaya, translated by Susan Davies

• Stephen Greenblatt
  Where little Fyodor played

• John Bayley

  • Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova, selected and translated by Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward
  • The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova translated by Judith Hemschemeyer, edited by Roberta Reeder
  • The Garden: New and Selected Poetry and Prose by Bella Akhmadulina

• William Empson
  Magnificent Cuckolds

• Martin Hollis

  • The Cement of Society: A Study of Social Order by Jon Elster
  • Solomonic Judgments: Studies in the Limitations of Rationality by Jon Elster
  • Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences by Jon Elster

• Colin McGinn

  • Animal Liberation by Peter Singer

• Ian Pople
  Poem: ‘For Jon, Pam, Tom and Katie up in the air’

• Michael Wood

  • The General in his Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Edith Grossman

• Mark Ford

  • Hunting Mister Heartbreak by Jonathan Raban

• Rosalind Mitchison

  • Naomi Mitchison: A Biography by Jill Benton

• Julie Davidson

  • Rape: My Story by Jill Saward and Wendy Green

• Frank Kermode

  • A Tenured Professor by John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Shade those laurels by Cyril Connolly and Peter Levi

• Alan Bennett
  Diary

• Paul Delany

  • D.H. Lawrence: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers
  • D.H. Lawrence by Tony Pinkney
  • England, My England, and Other Stories by D.H. Lawrence, edited by Bruce Steele
  • The ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ Trial (Regina v. Penguin Books Limited) edited by H. Montgomery Hyde
  • Boy by James Hanley
  • D.H. Lawrence: A Literary Life by John Worthen