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CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Heribert Adam
• John Bayley
• Donald Davie
• Kenneth Fowler
• Tim Gardam
• Roger Garfitt
• Sam Miller
• Onora O’Neill
• Anthony Pagden
• Patrick Parrinder
• Fiona Pitt-Kethley
• Philip Purser
• Craig Raine
• Julian Symons
• E.S. Turner
• Michael Wood
• Ruth Bernard Yeazell
• Theodore Zeldin

Contents

• Patrick Parrinder

  • Wise Children by Angela Carter

• Letters
  Alvin Kernan, Antony Easthope, Claude Rawson, David Bull, Martin Orkin, Leonard Jackson, Amit Chaudhuri, Bernard McCabe

• Sam Miller
  Show us your corpses

• Heribert Adam

  • The Unbreakable Thread: Non-Racialism in South Africa by Julie Frederikse
  • A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society by David Horowitz
  • Koexistenz im Krieg: Staatszerfall und Entstehung einer Nation im Libanon by Theodor Hanf

• Craig Raine

  • Constance Garnett: A Heroic Life by Richard Garnett

• Donald Davie

  • The Book of J translated by David Rosenberg, interpreted by Harold Bloom

• Onora O’Neill

  • The Political Responsibility of Intellectuals edited by Ian MacLean, Alan Montefiore and Peter Winch

• Michael Wood

  • Immortality by Milan Kundera, translated by Peter Kussi
  • Storm 2: New Writing from East and West edited by Joanna Labon

• Theodore Zeldin

  • Dead Certainties by Simon Schama

• Julian Symons

  • Literature and Liberation: Selected Essays by Arnold Kettle, edited by Graham Martin and W.R. Owens

• John Bayley

  • Edmund Blunden: A Biography by Barry Webb

• Ruth Bernard Yeazell

  • Married Women’s Separate Property in England, 1660-1833 by Susan Staves
  • The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship and the Life of the Mind in 18th-century England by Sylvia Harcstark Myers
  • Portrait of a Friendship: Drawn from New Letters of James Russell Lowell to Sybella Lady Lyttleton 1881-1891 by Alethea Hayter
  • Fierce Communion: Family and Community in Early America by Helena Wall

• Fiona Pitt-Kethley
  Poem: ‘Dogs’

• E.S. Turner

  • The Passing of Barchester: A Real-Life Version of Trollop by Clive Dewey

• Kenneth Fowler

  • Ways of Lying: Dissimulation and Conformity in Early Modern Europe by Perez Zagorin
  • Lucrecia’s Dreams: Politics and Prophecy in 16th-Century Spain by Richard Kagan
  • ‘In his Image and Likeness’: Political Iconography and Religious Change in Regenshurg, 1500-1600 by Kristin Zapalac

• Philip Purser

  • Hitler’s State Archltecture: The Impact of Classical Antiquity by Alex Scoble
  • Totalitarian Art by Igor Golomstock, translated by Robert Chandler

• Roger Garfitt
  Where Colombia screwed up

• Tim Gardam
  Diary

• Anthony Pagden

  • The Cambridge History of Latin America. Vol. VII: 1930 to the Present edited by Leslie Bethell
  • Magical Reels: A History of Cinema in Latin America by John King
  • Democracy and Development in Latin America: Economics, Politics and Religion in the Post-war Period by David Lehmann