CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Alan Brien
• Marilyn Butler
• Jonathan Coe
• Graham Coster
• D.J. Enright
• Penelope Fitzgerald
• R.W. Johnson
• Frank Kermode
• John Lanchester
• John Lloyd
• Edward Luttwak
• David Marquand
• Adam Phillips
• Henry Reed
• Jon Stallworthy
• Julian Symons
• Stephen Wall
• Michael Wood

Contents

• David Marquand

  • A Life at the Centre by Roy Jenkins

• Letters
  Michael Hamburger, Jonathan Bate, Arthur Marwick, Daniel Miller, James Wood, Nick Blanton, Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Roy MacGregor-Hastie

• Marilyn Butler

  • The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830 by Paul Johnson

• D.J. Enright
  Two Poems

• Edward Luttwak

  • The Lessons of History by Michael Howard

• Julian Symons

  • The Myth of the Blitz by Angus Calder

• R.W. Johnson
  Aids in South Africa

• Frank Kermode

  • Time’s Arrow by Martin Amis

• Jonathan Coe

  • The Tax Inspector by Peter Carey
  • The Second Bridegroom by Rodney Hall

• John Lanchester

  • Mao II by Don DeLillo
  • Introducing Don DeLillo edited by Frank Lentricchia

• Graham Coster

  • Paradise News by David Lodge

• Stephen Wall

  • Hidden in the Heart by Dan Jacobson
  • A Landing on the Sun by Michael Frayn

• Penelope Fitzgerald

  • The Van by Roddy Doyle

• Adam Phillips

  • Patrimony: A True Story by Philip Roth

• Henry Reed
  Poem: ‘L’Envoi’

• Jon Stallworthy
  A Life of Henry Reed

• Alan Brien

  • Well, I forget the rest by Quentin Crewe

• John Lloyd
  Moscow Diary

• D.J. Enright

  • Women Who Kill by Ann Jones

• Michael Wood

  • Young Soul Rebels directed by Isaac Julien
  • Diary of a Young Soul Rebel by Isaac Julien and Colin MacCabe