Cover: Srdja Djukanovic

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Barrell
• John Bayley
• Patricia Beer
• Ronan Bennett
• Kathleen Burk
• Amit Chaudhuri
• Linda Colley
• Donald Davie
• Jenny Diski
• Ian Gilmour
• Eric Hobsbawm
• Dan Jacobson
• R.W. Johnson
• V.G. Kiernan
• Christopher Middleton
• C.H. Sisson
• Robert Tashman

Contents

• Ian Gilmour

  • The Economic Legacy 1979-1992 edited by Jonathan Michie
  • The Godley Papers: Economic Problems and Policies in the 1980s and 90s by Wynne Godley
  • Full Employment in the 1990s by John Grieve Smith

• Letters
  Daniel C. Dennett, John Ellis, Clive Wilmer, Henry Jebb, G.A. Cohen, Peter Kennealy

• Kathleen Burk

  • The Barlow Clowes Affair by Lawrence Lever
  • For whom the bell tolls: The Lesson of Lloyd’s of London by Jonathan Mantle
  • The City of London: Continuity and Change, 1850-1990 by Ranald Michie

• Christopher Middleton
  Poem: ‘Missing Frogs’

• John Barrell

  • English Music by Peter Ackroyd

• C.H. Sisson

  • Housman’s Poems by John Bayley

• John Bayley

  • ‘Rain-Charm for the Duchy’ and other Laureate Poems by Ted Hughes

• Donald Davie

  • Devolving English Literature by Robert Crawford
  • The Faber Book of 20th-Century Scottish Poetry edited by Douglas Dunn

• Jenny Diski

  • Diana: Her True Story by Andrew Morton
  • Shared Lives by Lyndall Gordon
  • Antonia White: Diaries 1958-1979 edited by Susan Chitty

• Linda Colley

  • The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay by Bridget Hill

• Eric Hobsbawm
  Goodbye Columbus

• V.G. Kiernan

  • Salt and Civilisation by S.A.M. Adshead

• Patricia Beer
  Poem: ‘E.T. phone home’

• Robert Tashman

  • The Wizard of Oz by Salman Rushdie

• Amit Chaudhuri

  • After Silence by Jonathan Carroll
  • The Law of White Space by Giorgio Pressburger
  • Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree by Tariq Ali

• R.W. Johnson
  Cheered in the street, much as Charles or Di

• Ronan Bennett
  Diary

• Dan Jacobson
  About ‘The God-Fearer’