Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Ronan Bennett
• David Cannadine
• Amit Chaudhuri
• Wendy Doniger
• D.J. Enright
• Richard Eyre
• Paul Foot
• Jeremy Harding
• Dave Haslam
• Nicholas Lezard
• Scott Malcomson
• Jane Mendelsohn
• Douglas Oliver
• Stephen Sedley
• Tony Tanner
• E.S. Turner
• Anna Vaux
• Bernard Wasserstein

Contents

• Stephen Sedley

  • The Report of the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice

• Letters
  Colin Legum, L. Bernstein, R.W. Johnson, Gerald Graff, Brian Crozier, John Lavagnino, James Jonas, Frank Kermode, Sebastian Kraemer

• Paul Foot

  • Tiny Rowland: A Rebel Tycoon by Tom Bower

• David Cannadine

  • Witness of a Century: The Life and Times of Prince Arthur of Connaught, 1850-1942 by Noble Frankland

• Bernard Wasserstein

  • Imperial Warrior: The Life and Times of Field-Marshal Viscount Allenby 1861-1936 by Lawrence James

• Amit Chaudhuri

  • Alien Homage: Edward Thompson and Rabindranath Tagore by E.P. Thompson

• Douglas Oliver
  Poem: ‘The peculiar river’

• E.S. Turner

  • Rider Haggard and the Lost Empire by Tom Pocock

• Scott Malcomson

  • Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America by Robert Hughes

• Tony Tanner

  • Was Huck Black? Mark Twain and African-American Voices by Shelley Fishkin
  • Black Legacy: America’s Hidden Heritage by William Piersen
  • Black and White Strangers: Race and American Literary Realism by Kenneth Warren

• Jeremy Harding

  • The Letters of William Burroughs, 1949-1959 edited by Oliver Harris

• D.J. Enright

  • The True Paradise by Gamini Salgado

• Anna Vaux

  • Murder in the Heart: A True Life Psychological Thriller by Alexandra Artley

• Nicholas Lezard

  • Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips

• Ronan Bennett

  • The Blue Afternoon by William Boyd

• Jane Mendelsohn

  • The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
  • The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O’Brien by Oscar Hijuelos

• Dave Haslam

  • Will Pop Eat Itself? Pop Music in the Soundbite Era by Jeremy J. Beadle
  • Present Tense: Rock & Roll and Culture edited by Anthony DeCurtis

• Wendy Doniger
  Diary

• Richard Eyre

  • The Long Distance Runner by Tony Richardson