Cover: Sabat

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Robert Alter
• Gabriele Annan
• John Bayley
• Sidharth Bhatia
• David Cannadine
• Alistair Elliot
• Tony Gould
• Miriam Griffin
• R.W. Johnson
• Douglas Johnson
• Charles Maier
• Colin Richmond
• Sheldon Rothblatt
• Alan Sinfield
• John Sutherland
• Michael Wood

Contents

• David Cannadine

  • Royal Fortune: Tax, Money and the Monarchy by Phillip Hall

• Letters
  Anthony Lewis, Vernon Bogdanor, Christopher Murray, Padraig O Conchuir, Edward Pechter, Geoff Corrin, Michael Hofmann, John Black, Kathryn Lindskoog, A D. Nuttall

• Michael Wood

  • Flying in to Love by D.M. Thomas
  • JFK directed by Oliver Stone

• John Sutherland

  • Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying by Derek Humphry

• R.W. Johnson
  Who’ll man the fax?

• Charles Maier

  • Plausible Worlds: Possibility and Understanding in History and the Social Sciences by Geoffrey Hawthorn
  • New Philosophy of Social Science: Problems of Indeterminacy by James Bohman

• Alistair Elliot
  Poem: ‘The Use of Knees’

• Sheldon Rothblatt

  • Hutchins’ University: A Memoir of the University of Chicago 1929-1950 by William McNeill
  • Robert M. Hutchins: Portrait of an Educator by Mary Ann Dzuback
  • Jews in the American Academy 1900-1940: The Dynamics of Intellectual Assimilation by Susanne Klingenstein

• Robert Alter

  • Authors and Authority: English and American Criticism 1750-1990 by Patrick Parrinder
  • A History of Modern Criticism 1750-1950. Vol. VII: German, Russian and Eastern European Criticism, 1900-1950 by René Wellek

• Alan Sinfield

  • The Man with Night Sweats by Thom Gunn

• Miriam Griffin

  • Cicero the Senior Statesman by Thomas Mitchell
  • Cicero the Politician by Christian Habicht

• Gabriele Annan

  • The Last Empress: The Life and Times of Zita of Austria-Hungary by Gordon Brook-Shepherd

• John Bayley

  • The Age of Battles: The Quest for Decisive Warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterloo by Russell Weigley

• Douglas Johnson

  • Expensive Habits by Peter Mayle

• Colin Richmond
  Diary

• Sidharth Bhatia

  • No Full Stops in India by Mark Tully

• Tony Gould

  • Pablo Neruda: Absence and Presence by Luis Poirot, translated by Alastair Reid
  • Adios, Poeta by Jorge Edwards