CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Neal Ascherson
• Patricia Beer
• Asa Briggs
• Michael Brock
• Angus Calder
• Susannah Clapp
• Garret FitzGerald
• Ian Hamilton
• Christopher Hitchens
• R.W. Johnson
• Glyn Maxwell
• Charles Nicholl
• Alan Ross
• Conrad Russell
• Paul Smith
• Anne Stevenson
• John Sutherland
• Julian Symons
• Stephen Wall
• Jeremy Warner
• Stephanie West

Contents

• R.W. Johnson

  • Paradigms Lost: The Post Cold War Era edited by Chester Hartman and Pedro Vilanova
  • The Crisis of Socialism in Europe edited by Christiane Lemke and Gary Marks

• Letters
  Rosalind Mitchison, Daniel Weissbort, G.H. Hyde, Janet Adam Smith, Theo Dorgan, Hyam Maccoby, John Black, Nicolas Walter

• Neal Ascherson

  • After the Fall: The Failure of Communism and the Future of Socialism edited by Robin Blackburn

• Garret FitzGerald
  A Call to the Unionists

• Jeremy Warner

  • Maxwell: The Outsider by Tom Bower

• Christopher Hitchens

  • Tobacco: A History by V.G. Kiernan
  • The Faber Book of Drink, Drinkers and Drinking edited by Simon Rae

• Charles Nicholl

  • Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair by John Bossy
  • The Elizabethan Secret Service by Alison Plowden
  • The Lord of Uraniborg: A Biography of Tycho Brahe by Victor Thoren

• Conrad Russell

  • Community Transformed: The Manor and Liberty of Havering 1500-1620 by Marjorie Keniston McIntosh

• Paul Smith

  • Darwin by Adrian Desmond and James Moore

• Stephanie West

  • The Unauthorised Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible by Robin Lane Fox

• Angus Calder

  • Empire and English Character by Kathryn Tidrick
  • Into Africa: The story of the East African Safari by Kenneth Cameron
  • Burton: Snow upon the Desert by Frank McLynn
  • From the Sierras to the Pampas: Richard Burton’s Travels in the Americas, 1860-69 by Frank McLynn
  • The Duke of Puddle Dock: Travels in the Footsteps of Stamford Raffles by Nigel Barley

• Anne Stevenson
  Two Poems

• Michael Brock

  • Public Moralists: Political Thought and Intellectual Life in Britain, 1850-1930 by Stefan Collini

• Glyn Maxwell
  Poem: ‘Mid-History of the Motor-Car’

• Alan Ross
  Poem: ‘U 244’

• Asa Briggs

  • Isambard Kingdom Brunel: Engineering Knight-Errant by Adrian Vaughan

• Ian Hamilton

  • Will this do? by Auberon Waugh
  • Mr Wu and Mrs Stitch: The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper edited by Artemis Cooper

• John Sutherland

  • Brrm! Brrm! by Clive James
  • Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler
  • Faustine by Emma Tennant

• Patricia Beer

  • Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud
  • Eve’s Tattoo by Emily Prager
  • A Dubious Legacy by Mary Wesley

• Susannah Clapp
  Diary

• Stephen Wall

  • Ever After by Graham Swift

• Julian Symons

  • HMS Glasshouse by Sean O’Brien
  • The Hogweed Lass by Alan Dixon
  • Collected Poems by Les Murray