CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Bayley
• Patricia Beer
• Linda Colley
• Paul Foot
• Dave Haslam
• Lynn Hunt
• Keith Kyle
• John Lloyd
• Paul Muldoon
• Tom Nairn
• Avi Shlaim
• Iain Sinclair
• Kathryn Tidrick
• Michael Wood
• Elizabeth Young

Contents

• Tom Nairn
  Demonising Nationalism

• Letters
  Michael Tanner, Alan Sinfield, Tony Fairman, Walter de las Casas, Philippa Tristram, Anthony Arblaster, Andrew Scott, John Grant, Keith Flett, Basil Davidson, Freddy Hurdis-Jones

• 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