Cover: David King

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Ian Aitken
• Angela Carter
• Patrick Collinson
• Paul Foot
• Mark Ford
• James Fox
• P.N. Furbank
• Geoffrey Hawthorn
• Selima Hill
• Zvi Jagendorf
• Frank Kermode
• John Lloyd
• Ross McKibbin
• Jane Miller
• Tom Paulin
• Edward Said

Contents

• John Lloyd

  • Gorbachev: The Making of the Man who shook the World by Gail Sheehy
  • Gorbachev: Heretic in the Kremlin by Dusko Doder and Louise Branson
  • The Nationalities Question in the Soviet Union edited by Graham Smith

• Letters
  Carmel Budiardjo, Neil Belton, John Christopher, P. Crowson, George Clark, Roger Crisp, John Green, W.G. Runciman, John Passmore, Alison Weir, Alan Sinfield, Cushing Strout

• Edward Said, an American and an Arab, writes on the eve of the Iraqi-Soviet peace talks

• Tom Paulin
  Three Poems

• Geoffrey Hawthorn

  • The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power by Daniel Yergin

• Ross McKibbin

  • Conflicts of Interest: Diaries 1977-80 by Tony Benn, edited by Ruth Winstone
  • Words as Weapons: Selected Writings 1980-1990 by Paul Foot

• P.N. Furbank

  • The Uses of Error by Frank Kermode

• Mark Ford
  Poem: ‘Affirmative Action’

• Patrick Collinson

  • London and the Reformation by Susan Brigden

• Jane Miller

  • The Collected Letters of George Gissing. Vol. I: 1863-1880 edited by Paul Mattheisen, Arthur Young and Pierre Coustillas

• Angela Carter

  • Downriver by Iain Sinclair

• Frank Kermode

  • Lilac and Flag by John Berger

• Paul Foot

  • Memoirs of a Libel Lawyer by Peter Carter Ruck

• James Fox

  • The Theatre of Embarrassment by Francis Wyndham

• Zvi Jagendorf
  Jerusalem Diary

• Ian Aitken

  • A Dubious Codicil: An Autobiography by by Michael Wharton
  • The House the Berrys built by Duff Hart-Davis
  • Lords of Fleet Street: The Harmsworth Dynasty by Richard Bourne

• Selima Hill
  Three Poems