CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Ian Aitken
• John Bayley
• Patricia Beer
• Peter Campbell
• Peter Clarke
• Penelope Fitzgerald
• Carlo Ginzburg
• Stephen Gray
• R.W. Johnson
• Sean Maguire
• Patrick Parrinder
• C.K. Stead
• E.P. Thompson
• E.S. Turner

Contents

• Ian Aitken

  • Rupert Murdoch by William Shawcross

• Letters
  David Westover, Paddy Lyons, Ethna Viney, T.V. Sathyamurthy, John Philip, Yoel Cohen, Graham Martin

• Patrick Parrinder

  • The Great Betrayal: Memoirs of a Life in Education by Brian Cox

• Peter Clarke

  • The View from No 11: Memoirs of a Tory Radical by Nigel Lawson

• Carlo Ginzburg
  The European (Re)discovery of the Shamans

• E.P. Thompson

  • Dangerous Enthusiasm: William Blake and the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790s by Jon Mee

• John Bayley

  • Walt Whitman: From Moon to Starry Night by Philip Callow
  • The Double Life of Stephen Crane by Christopher Benfey

• Patricia Beer

  • Robert Bridges: A Biography by Catherine Phillips

• Stephen Gray
  Poem: ‘The Anna Mary Letters to Hans Christian Andersen’

• Peter Campbell

  • Delacroix by Timothy Wilson-Smith

• E.S. Turner

  • My Ascent of Mont Blanc by Henriette d’Angeville, translated by Jennifer Barnes
  • Backwards to Britain by Jules Verne, translated by Janice Valls-Russell

• C.K. Stead

  • Cosmo Cosmolino by Helen Garner

• Penelope Fitzgerald

  • Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto, translated by Megan Backus

• Sean Maguire
  Sarajevo Diary

• R.W. Johnson

  • JFK: Life and Death of an American President. Vol. I: Reckless Youth by Nigel Hamilton