Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Bayley
• Peter Campbell
• Jonathan Coe
• Terry Eagleton
• D.J. Enright
• Paul Foot
• Joseph Frank
• Rosemary Hill
• Christopher Hitchens
• Robert Irwin
• R.W. Johnson
• Colin McGinn
• Bill Manhire
• Nicholas Penny
• Elisa Segrave
• Jonathan Spence
• Jenny Turner
• Leslie Wilson
• Michael Wood

Contents

• R.W. Johnson

  • The Downing Street Years by Margaret Thatcher

• Letters
  Dermot Lewis, Louise Horton, William Lamont, Patrice Higonnet, Warren Wallace, Alan Milne, Kate Symonds

• D.J. Enright
  Poem: ‘Caligula on the subject of names’

• Christopher Hitchens

  • Wilson: The Authorised Life by Philip Ziegler

• Jenny Turner

  • Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

• Terry Eagleton

  • Patrick Hamilton: A Life by Sean French

• Paul Foot

  • John Strachey: An Intellectual Biography by Noel Thompson
  • John Strachey by Michael Newman

• Bill Manhire
  Poem: ‘An Amazing Week in New Zealand’

• Jonathan Spence

  • Records of the Grand Historian: Qin Dynasty by Sima Qian, edited and translated by Burton Watson

• Joseph Frank

  • A Writer’s Diary. Vol. I: 1873-1876 by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated and annotated by Kenneth Lantz

• John Bayley

  • Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell edited by Regina Marler, introduction by Quentin Bell

• Nicholas Penny

  • Glenkiln by John McEwen and John Haddington
  • Henry Moore: An Interpretation by Peter Fuller, edited by Anthony O’Hear

• Peter Campbell

  • The Materials of Sculpture by Nicholas Penny

• Rosemary Hill

  • Karl Friedrich Schinkel: ‘The English Journey’ edited by David Bindman and Gottfried Riemann, translated by F. Gagna Walls
  • The Modernist Garden in France by Dorothée Imbert

• Michael Wood

  • Corona, Corona by Michael Hofmann

• Leslie Wilson

  • The Virago Book of Witches edited by Shahrukh Husain

• Elisa Segrave

  • The Wives of Bath by Susan Swan

• Jonathan Coe

  • Tintin in the New World by Frederic Tuten

• Robert Irwin
  Diary

• Colin McGinn

  • Renewing Philosophy by Hilary Putnam