Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Peter Brooks
• Michael Burns
• A. Craig Copetas
• Michael Dobson
• Charles Maier
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Patrick Parrinder
• M.F. Perutz
• Alan Ross
• Stephen Smith
• John Sutherland
• Colm Tóibín
• John Tranter
• Bernard Williams

Contents

• Colm Tóibín

  • Paddy and Mr Punch: Connections in Irish and English History by R.F. Foster

• Letters
  Harold Beaver, Jasa Almuli, Marina Warner, Richard Harrier, Keith Graham, Gregor Dallas, Fiona Pitt-Kethley

• Bernard Williams

  • Inequality Examined by Amartya Sen

• Andrew O’Hagan
  Walk on by

• John Tranter
  Poem: ‘Pantoum: The Waiting Room’

• M.F. Perutz

  • Heisenberg’s War: The Secret History of the German Bomb by Thomas Powers
  • Operation Epsilon: The Farm Hall Transcripts introduced by Charles Frank

• Charles Maier

  • German Resistance against Hitler: The Search for Allies Abroad 1938-1945 by Klemens von Klemperer

• Michael Burns

  • Death and the After-Life in Modern France by Thomas Kselman

• Peter Brooks

  • Benjamin Constant: A Biography by Dennis Wood
  • Isabelle de Charrière (Belle de Zuylen): A Biography by C.P Courtney

• Michael Dobson

  • ‘Hamlet’ versus ‘Lear’: Cultural Politics and Shakespeare’s Art by R.A. Foakes
  • Appropriating Shakespeare: Contemporary Critical Quarrels by Brian Vickers
  • Shakespeare, Poet and Citizen by Victor Kieran

• Alan Ross
  Poem: ‘Pipelines at Al Alimadi’

• Patrick Parrinder

  • The Modern British Novel by Malcolm Bradbury
  • After the War: The Novel and English Society since 1945 by D.J. Taylor

• John Sutherland

  • Complicity by Iain Banks
  • Against a Dark Background by Iain M. Banks

• Stephen Smith
  Diary

• A. Craig Copetas

  • New York Days by Willie Morris