CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Gabriele Annan
• John Bayley
• T.J. Binyon
• Dinah Birch
• Mark Bonham-Carter
• Norman Dombey
• Alistair Elliot
• Stephen Fender
• Garret FitzGerald
• Paul Foot
• R.W. Johnson
• Frank Kermode
• V.G. Kiernan
• Ross McKibbin
• Paul Muldoon
• Jenny Turner
• Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Contents

• Ross McKibbin

  • Power, Competition and the State. Vol. II: Threats to the Post-War Settlement, Britain, 1961-1974, Vol. III: The End of the Post-War Era, Britain since 1974 by Keith Middlemas
  • Labour’s Economic Policies, 1974-1979 edited by Michael Artis and David Cobham

• Letters
  Michael Rustin, Aldan Foster-Carter, Peter Marsden, Roz Kaveney, Ed Leimbacher, Laurie Goldstraw

• Norman Dombey
  Arms and Saddam

• Alistair Elliot
  Poem: ‘On Broadway’

• Frank Kermode

  • Orwell: The Authorised Biography by Michael Shelden

• Gabriele Annan

  • Memories of My Youth in Old Prussia by Marion Countess Dönhoff

• R.W. Johnson
  The Past and Future of the South African Communist party

• Paul Muldoon
  Poem: ‘Oscar’

• Stephen Fender

  • The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and how it changed America by Nicholas Lemann

• Mark Bonham-Carter
  Mr Baker should think again

• Paul Foot

  • Tom Mann, 1856-1941: The Challenges of Labour by Chushichi Tsuzuki

• Garret FitzGerald

  • The Unresolved Question by Nicholas Mansergh

• John Bayley

  • Scum by Isaac Bashevis Singer, translated by Rosaline Dukalsky Schwartz

• Ruth Bernard Yeazell

  • The History of Tears: Sensibility and Sentimentality in France by Anne Vincent-Buffault

• Dinah Birch

  • Ford Madox Brown and the Pre-Raphaelite Circle by Teresa Newman and Ray Watkinson

• T.J. Binyon

  • Maurice Baring: A Citizen of Europe by Emma Letley

• V.G. Kiernan
  Diary

• Jenny Turner

  • Gaudi Afternoon by Barbara Wilson
  • The players come again by Amanda Cross
  • Poetic Justice by Amanda Cross
  • Birth Marks by Sarah Dunant
  • Burn Marks by Sara Paretsky
  • Deep Sleep by Frances Fyfield