CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Paul Addison
• Basil Davidson
• Paul Driver
• Felipe Fernández-Armesto
• Wynne Godley
• Ian Gregson
• Danny Karlin
• Eric Korn
• John Lloyd
• Pascale Petit
• J.G.A. Pocock
• Anthony Quinn
• Tom Shippey
• John Sutherland
• Gary Taylor
• Nicholas Wade

Contents

• Paul Driver

  • The Roaring Silence: John Cage, A Life by David Revill

• Letters
  Michael Smethurst, Bonnie McDougall, Chan Hong-Mo, Shen Ning, Lau Bing Sum, Phillip Baker, Stephen Ng, Bobby Chan, Gerald Hammond, Gerald Long, Geoffrey Moorhouse, Adrian Bowyer, Blair Ewing, Tim Longville, Per Runesson, Rosemary Hill, Sylvia Lawson

• Basil Davidson

  • Fitzroy Maclean by Frank McLynn
  • Franz Joseph by Jean-Paul Bled, translated by Teresa Bridgeman

• Paul Addison

  • John Maynard Keynes: The Economist as Saviour 1920-1937 by Robert Skidelsky
  • Maynard Keynes: An Economist’s Biography by D.E. Moggridge

• Wynne Godley

  • Reflections on Monetarism by Tim Congdon

• Felipe Fernández-Armesto

  • European Encounters with the New World: From Renaissance to Romanticism by Anthony Pagden
  • New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery by Anthony Grafton, April Shelford and Nancy Siraisi
  • The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus by Valerie Flint
  • Land without Evil: Utopian Journeys across the South American Watershed by Richard Gott

• J.G.A. Pocock

  • The Cambridge History of Political Thought: 1450-1700 edited by J.H. Burns and Mark Goldie

• Gary Taylor

  • Shakespeare: The Later Years by Russell Fraser
  • Shakespeare: His Life, Work and Era by Dennis Kay
  • William Shakespeare: The Anatomy of an Enigma by Peter Razzell
  • Politics, Plague and Shakespeare’s Theatre: The Stuart Years by Leeds Barroll
  • Shakespeare Verbatim: The Reproduction of Authenticity and the 1790 Apparatus by Margreta de Grazia

• Tom Shippey

  • The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer by Derek Pearsall
  • A Wyf ther was: Essays in Honour of Paule Mertens-Fonck edited by Juliette Dor
  • Hochon’s Arrow: The Social Imagination of 14th-Century Texts by Paul Strohm

• Danny Karlin

  • Pause and Effect: An Introduction to the History of Punctuation in the West by M.B. Parkes

• John Sutherland

  • The Two Forgers: A Biography of Harry Buxton Forman and Thomas James Wise by John Collins
  • Forgers and Critics: Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship by Anthony Grafton

• Nicholas Wade

  • Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics by James Gleick

• Eric Korn

  • Virtual Reality by Howard Rheingold
  • Cyberpunk by Katie Hafner and John Markoff
  • Glimpses of Heaven, Visions of Hell: Virtual Reality and its Implications by Barrie Sherman and Phil Judkins

• Pascale Petit
  Poem: ‘My Mother’s Clothes’

• Anthony Quinn

  • The Conclave by Michael Bracewell
  • Cock & Bull by Will Self

• John Lloyd
  Moscow Diary

• Ian Gregson

  • Landlocked by Mark Ford
  • The English Earthquake by Eva Salzman
  • Bleeding Heart Yard by William Scammell
  • The Game: Tennis Poems by William Scammell
  • Marconi’s Cottage by Medbh McGuckian