CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Neal Ascherson
• Linda Colley
• A. Craig Copetas
• D.J. Enright
• Paul Foot
• Lucy Hughes-Hallett
• R.W. Johnson
• Nicholas Penny
• J.G.A. Pocock
• Colin Richmond
• Edward Said
• Stephen Sedley
• E.S. Turner
• Jenny Turner

Contents

• Stephen Sedley
  Free speech for Rupert Murdoch

• Letters
  John Skoyles, Bob Grumman, R.W. Johnson, Riccardo Steiner, Peter Rudnytsky, A. Banerjee, Peter Cadogan, Colin Matthews, Stephen Roberts, Frank Walbank

• J.G.A. Pocock
  Deconstructing Europe

• Paul Foot

  • Under Fire: An American Story by Oliver North and William Novak
  • Terry Waite: Why was he kidnapped? by Gavin Hewitt

• A. Craig Copetas

  • Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson

• R.W. Johnson
  What Buthelezi wants

• Edward Said

  • In Search of Conrad by Gavin Young

• E.S. Turner

  • Alistair MacLean by Jack Webster
  • Alistair MacLean’s Time of the Assassins by Alastair MacNeill

• Neal Ascherson

  • Judge on Trial by Ivan Klima, translated by A.G. Brain

• Nicholas Penny

  • The Altarpiece in Renaissance Italy by Jacob Burckhardt, edited and translated by Peter Humfrey
  • The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt, translated by S.G. Middlemore
  • The Altarpiece in the Renaissance edited by Peter Humfrey and Martin Kemp
  • Painting in Renaissance Siena by Keith Christiansen, Laurence Kanter and Carl Stehlke

• Colin Richmond

  • The Architecture of Medieval Britain by Colin Platt, with photographs by Anthony Kersting

• D.J. Enright
  Poem: ‘Saving the world’

• Lucy Hughes-Hallett

  • The Emperor’s Last Island: A Journey to St Helena by Julia Blackburn

• Linda Colley
  Diary

• Jenny Turner

  • England’s dreaming: The Sex Pistols and Punk Rock by Jon Savage