CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Paul Driver
• Terry Eagleton
• Wynne Godley
• Christopher Hitchens
• Eric Hobsbawm
• Anthony Julius
• Sylvia Lawson
• John Lloyd
• W.J.T. Mitchell
• Patrick Parrinder
• Tom Paulin
• Fiona Pitt-Kethley
• Ian Pople
• Richard Rorty
• John Sutherland
• Colm Tóibín

Contents

• Richard Rorty

  • The Ethics of Authenticity by Charles Taylor

• Letters
  Christopher Hitchens, Nicholas Penny, David Kitson, David Pimm, John Allen Paulos, Peter Trudgill, Warren Keith Wright, Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Elisa Segrave, David Townsend

• Wynne Godley
  If in a year’s time a Chancellor …

• John Lloyd

  • The Struggle for Russia: Power and Change in the Democratic Revolution by Ruslan Khasbulatov, translated by Richard Sakwa

• Tom Paulin
  Poem: ‘Cadmus and the Dragon’

• Christopher Hitchens

  • Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover by Anthony Summers

• W.J.T. Mitchell

  • Culture and Imperialism by Edward Said

• Ian Pople
  Poem: ‘At the Navigation’

• Colm Tóibín

  • Dream of Fair to Middling Women by Samuel Beckett, edited by Eoin O’Brien and Edith Fournier

• Terry Eagleton

  • No Other Life by Brian Moore

• John Sutherland

  • Tennyson by Michael Thorn
  • Tennyson by Peter Levi

• Patrick Parrinder

  • The Invisible Man: The Life and Liberties of H.G. Wells by Michael Coren

• Fiona Pitt-Kethley
  Poem: ‘Designer Sex’

• Anthony Julius

  • Modern British Jewry by Geoffrey Alderman

• Eric Hobsbawm

  • Jews and the German State: The Political History of a Minority, 1848-1933 by Peter Pulzer
  • The Jews of Germany: A Historical Portrait by Ruth Gay

• Sylvia Lawson
  Sydney Diary

• Paul Driver

  • Memories of Beethoven: From the House of the Black-Robed Spaniards by Gerhard von Breuning, edited by Maynard Solomon, translated by Henry Mins and Maynard Solomon
  • Beethoven: Studies in the Creative Process by Lewis Lockwood