CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Paul Addison
• Gabriele Annan
• Neal Ascherson
• Susannah Clapp
• Donald Davie
• Jenny Diski
• Margaret Anne Doody
• Mark Elvin
• D.J. Enright
• D.A.N. Jones
• Ross McKibbin
• Nicholas Penny
• Adam Phillips
• John Ryle
• Amartya Sen
• Nicholas Spice
• John Sutherland

Contents

• Neal Ascherson

  • Chamfort: A Biography by Claude Arnaud, translated by Deke Dusinberre

• Letters
  Philip Raikes, William LeFanu, Wynne Godley, Perry Anderson, Roderick Shaw, Edna Longley, Joanne Lafler

• Ross McKibbin

  • Dancing with Dogma: Britain under Thatcherism by Ian Gilmour

• Paul Addison

  • War, Strategy and International Politics: Essays in Honour of Sir Michael Howard edited by Lawrence Freedman, Paul Hayes and Robert O’Neill

• John Sutherland

  • Keepers of the Flame: Literary Estates and the Rise of Biography by Ian Hamilton
  • Testamentary Acts: Browning, Tennyson, James, Hardy by Michael Millgate
  • The Last Laugh by Michael Holroyd
  • Trollope by Victoria Glendinning

• Margaret Anne Doody

  • The Letters of Samuel Johnson: Vol. I: 1731-1772, Vol. II: 1773-1776, Vol. III: 1777-1781 edited by Bruce Redford

• D.J. Enright
  Poem: ‘Seasons’

• John Ryle

  • To Blight with Plague: Studies in a Literary Theme by Barbara Fass Leavy
  • Epidemics and Ideas: Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence edited by Terence Ranger and Paul Slack
  • The Fourth Horseman: A Short History of Epidemics, Plagues and Other Scourges by Andrew Nikiforuk
  • In Time of Plague: The History and Social Consequences of Lethal Epidemic Disease edited by Arien Mack
  • Miasmas and Disease: Public Health and the Environment in the Pre-Industrial Age by Carlo Cipolla, translated by Elizabeth Potter
  • International Journal of STD and Aids. Vol. II, Supplement I: Aids and the Epidemics of History edited by Harry Rolin, Richard Creese and Ronald Mann
  • Monopolies of Loss by Adam Mars-Jones
  • Aids in Africa: Its Present and Future Impact edited by Tony Barrett and Piers Blaikie

• Amartya Sen
  On the Darwinian View of Progress

• Mark Elvin

  • The Dragon’s Brood: Conversations with Young Chinese by David Rice
  • Time for telling truth is running out by Vera Schwarcz
  • The Tyranny of History: The Roots of China’s Crisis by W.F.J. Jenner
  • Beyond the Chinese Face: Insights from Psychology by Michael Harris Bond
  • Chinese Communism by Dick Wilson and Matthew Grenier

• Nicholas Penny

  • The Sculpture of Jacopo Sansovino by Bruce Boucher
  • Giambattista and Lorenzo Bregno: Venetian Sculpture in the High Renaissance by Anne Markham Schulz

• Jenny Diski

  • Sex by Madonna
  • Sex and Sensibility by Julie Burchill
  • Too hot to handle by Fiona Pitt-Kethley

• Adam Phillips

  • Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety by Marjorie Garber

• Donald Davie

  • The Paperbark Tree: Selected Prose by Les Murray

• Gabriele Annan

  • Death in Rome by Wolfgang Koeppen, translated by Michael Hofmann

• Susannah Clapp

  • Dunedin by Shena Mackay

• Nicholas Spice
  Diary

• D.A.N. Jones

  • Death in Chile: A Memoir and a Journey by Tony Gould
  • Some write to the future by Ariel Dorfman, translated by George Shivers and Ariel Dorfman