Contents


  • Tom Nairn
    Demonising Nationalism

  • Letters

  • Paul Muldoon
    Poem: ‘Ovid: Metamorphoses’

  • Linda Colley

    • People and Places: Country House Donors and the National Trust by James Lees-Milne
    • The Making of the National Poet: Shakespeare, Adaptation and Authorship, 1660-1769 by Michael Dobson
    • Myths of the English edited by Roy Porter
    • Fields of Vision: Landscape Imagery and National Identity in England and the United States by Stephen Daniels
  • Lynn Hunt

    • Revolutionary France, 1770-1880 by François Furet, translated by Antonia Nevill
  • Iain Sinclair

    • Inside the Firm: The Untold Story of the Krays’ Reign of Terror by Tony Lambrianou and Carol Clerk
    • Gangland: London’s Underworld by James Morton
    • Nipper: The Story of Leonard ‘Nipper’ Read by Leonard Read and James Morton
    • Smash and Grab: Gangsters in the London Underworld by Robert Murphy
  • Patricia Beer
    Poem: ‘The night Marlowe died’

  • Michael Wood

    • Bram Stoker’s Dracula directed by Francis Ford Coppola
    • Suckers: Bleeding London Dry by Anne Billson
  • John Lloyd

    • A History of Vodka by William Pokhlebkin, translated by Renfrey Clarke
  • Avi Shlaim

    • The Passionate Attachment: America’s Involvement with Israel by George Ball and Douglas Ball
  • Keith Kyle

    • Divided we stand: Britain, the US and the Suez Crisis by W. Scott Lucas
    • Blind Loyalty: Australia and the Suez Crisis by W.J. Hudson
  • Paul Foot

    • Studded with Diamonds and Paved with Gold: Miners, Mining Companies and Human Rights in South Africa by Laurie Flynn
  • Kathryn Tidrick

    • The Black Man’s Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State by Basil Davidson
    • Hearts of Darkness: The European Exploration of Africa by Frank McLynn
    • African Silences by Peter Matthiessen
  • John Bayley

    • A History of Food by Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat, translated by Anthea Bell
  • Dave Haslam
    Diary

  • Elizabeth Young

    • The Case of Anna Kavan by David Callard