Cover: G. Abbas

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Gabriele Annan
• Alexander Cockburn
• Paul Foot
• Ronald Fraser
• Oleg Gordievsky
• Jeremy Harding
• Seamus Heaney
• Christopher Hitchens
• Luke Jennings
• Frank Kermode
• Keith Kyle
• William Rodgers
• Carol Shields
• Elaine Showalter
• Matt Simpson
• Jon Stallworthy
• Julian Symons
• Bernard Williams
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Keith Kyle

  • Saddam’s War: The Origins of the Kuwait Conflict and the International Response by John Bulloch and Harvey Morris
  • Unholy Babylon: The Secret History of Saddam’s War by Adel Darwish and Gregory Alexander
  • Cambridge International Document Series: Vol. 1 The Kuwait Crisis edited by E. Lauterpacht, C.J. Greenwood, Mark Weller and Daniel Bethlehem
  • Air Power and Colonial Control by David Omissi

• Letters
  Lawrence Beyer, Kenneth Muir, Perry Anderson, D.L. Macdonald, Anthony Pratt, Jennifer Dawson, Colin McGinn, B.J. Grayfriesen, Christopher Burns

• Paul Foot
  ‘Bye Bye Baghdad’

• Jeremy Harding
  How the war in the Gulf affects the famine in Africa

• Seamus Heaney
  Poem: ‘A Retrospect’

• Alexander Cockburn

  • An American Life by Ronald Reagan

• Oleg Gordievsky

  • Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy by Dmitri Volkogonov, edited and translated by Harold Shukman
  • Stalin: The Glasnost Revelations by Walter Laqueur
  • The Prosecutor and the Prey: Vyshinsky and the 1930s Moscow Show Trials by Arkady Vaksberg, translated by Jan Butler

• William Rodgers
  What happened to the SDP, and what could still happen

• Bernard Williams

  • Realism with a Human Face by Hilary Putnam

• Jon Stallworthy
  Poem: ‘The Voice from the Bridge’

• Elaine Showalter

  • Jean Stafford: The Savage Heart by Charlotte Margolis Goodman
  • Jean Stafford: A Biography by David Roberts

• Michael Wood

  • Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin by James Campbell
  • James Baldwin: Artist on Fire by W.J. Weatherby

• Gabriele Annan

  • Reminiscences and Reflections by Golo Mann, translated by Krishna Winston

• Ronald Fraser

  • Gorbals Voices, Siren Songs by Ralph Glasser
  • A Place for Us by Nicholas Gage
  • The Hidden Damage by James Stern

• Frank Kermode

  • Spanner and Pen: Post-War Memoirs by Roy Fuller

• Matt Simpson
  Poem: ‘On My Mother’s Side’

• Julian Symons

  • Stanley Spencer by Kenneth Pople

• Christopher Hitchens
  Washington Diary

• Carol Shields

  • Friend of My Youth by Alice Munro

• Luke Jennings

  • Them: Voices from the Immigrant Community in Contemporary Britain by Jonathon Green
  • The Golden Thread: Asian Experiences of Post-Raj Britain by Zerbanoo Gifford