Cover: Bruno Schulz

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Robert Alter
• Jonathan Bate
• John Bayley
• Asa Briggs
• Robert Crawford
• Tam Dalyell
• Jon Elster
• Mark Ford
• Hilary Gaskin
• Michael Howard
• Douglas Johnson
• Frank Kermode
• Ross McKibbin
• Walter Nash
• A.D. Nuttall
• Claude Rawson
• Elaine Showalter

Contents

• John Bayley

  • Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Very Private Life by Robert Bernard Martin

• Letters
  Frederick Gabrielsen, L.W. Bailey, Editors, ‘London Review’, Dennis Brown, James Wood, Sydney Schiffer, John Kernick, William Driscoll, John Whitworth, Deborah Knuth, Richard Bourne

• Michael Howard

  • Haig’s Command: A Reassessment by Denis Winter

• Ross McKibbin

  • The Progressive Dilemma: From Lloyd George to Kinnock by David Marquand

• Robert Crawford
  Love Poems for Alice with Old Cars

• Tam Dalyell gives reasons for postponing a Te Deum

• Mark Ford
  Poem: ‘Funny Peculiar’

• Douglas Johnson

  • The Battle of France: Six weeks which changed the world by Philip Warner
  • The Last War between Britain and France 1940-1942 by Warren Tute
  • Darlan by Hervé Coutau-Bégarie and Claude Huan

• Jon Elster

  • The Search for Modern China by Jonathan Spence
  • Rebellions and Revolutions: China from the 1880s to the 1980s by Jack Gray

• Asa Briggs

  • The Pencil: A History by Henry Petroski

• Claude Rawson

  • The Death of Literature by Alvin Kernan
  • Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopedia, Genealogy and Tradition by Alasdair MacIntyre
  • Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man by David Lehman

• Robert Alter

  • The Confessions of Saint Augustine translated with an introduction and notes by Henry Chadwick

• Elaine Showalter

  • Kate Chopin: A Life of the Author of ‘The Awakening’ by Emily Toth

• Frank Kermode

  • A Passionate Apprentice. The Early Journals of Virginia Woolf, 1897-1909 edited by Mitchell Leaska
  • A Very Close Conspiracy: Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf by Jane Dunn

• A.D. Nuttall

  • The Names of Comedy by Anne Barton

• Jonathan Bate

  • William Blake: His Life by James King

• John Bayley writes about Graham Greene

• Hilary Gaskin
  Diary

• Walter Nash

  • Saraband by Patrice Chaplin
  • Pious Secrets by Irene Dische
  • City of the Mind by Penelope Lively