Cover: Clare Leighton

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Robert Alter
• John Bayley
• Basil Davidson
• Penelope Fitzgerald
• Mark Ford
• Ian Hamilton
• Michael Howard
• Frank Kermode
• Ross McKibbin
• Sean Maguire
• Peter Porter
• Malise Ruthven
• Paul Smith
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Ian Hamilton

  • Rebecca’s Vest: A Memoir by Karl Miller

• Letters
  Nicola Cufaro Petroni, Frank Kermode, Paul Lawrence Rose, Edward Said, Attila Hoare, Etrenne Lymbery, David Barker, W.G. Shepherd, Liam Mac Cóil, Judith Terry, Freddy Hurdis-Jones, David Townsend, John Roe

• Ross McKibbin
  Customers of the State

• Paul Smith

  • Entrepreneurial Politics in Mid-Victorian Britain by G.R. Searle

• Frank Kermode

  • Tell Them I’m on my Way by Arnold Goodman
  • Not an Englishman: Conversations with Lord Goodman by David Selbourne

• Michael Howard

  • The Evolution of UN Peacekeeping: Case Studies and Comparative Analysis edited by William Durch

• Basil Davidson

  • High Noon in Southern Africa: Making Peace in a Rough Neighbourhood by Chester Crocker
  • Small Wars, Small Mercies: Journeys in Africa’s Disputed Nations by Jeremy Harding
  • Bridging the Zambesi: A Colonial Folly by Landeg White

• Malise Ruthven

  • Fire and Blood: The True Story of David Koresh and the Waco Siege by David Leppard
  • Preacher of Death: The Shocking Inside Story of David Koresh and the Waco Siege by Martin King and Marc Breault

• Robert Alter

  • The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered by Robert Eisenman and Michael Wise

• Mark Ford

  • The Ern Malley Affair by Michael Heyward

• Penelope Fitzgerald

  • The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

• John Bayley

  • The Life of Ian Fleming by Donald McCormick

• Peter Porter
  Poem: ‘Why the barbarians kept us waiting’

• Sean Maguire
  Diary

• Michael Wood
  Let’s not overthink this