Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Bayley
• T.J. Binyon
• Alistair Elliot
• Penelope Fitzgerald
• R.O. Gandy
• Geoffrey Hawthorn
• Lawrence Hogben
• Kit McMahon
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Ed Regis
• Colm Tóibín
• Helen Vendler
• Michael Wood
• Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Contents

• John Bayley

  • D-Day: Those Who Were There by Juliet Gardiner
  • D-Day 1944: Voices from Normandy by Robin Neillands and Roderick De Normann
  • Battle Tactics of the Western Front: The British Army’s Art of Attack by Paddy Griffiths
  • The D-Day Encyclopedia edited by David Chandler and James Lawton Collins
  • D-Day 1944 edited by Theodore Wilson
  • Decision in Normandy by Carlo d’Este

• Letters
  Boris Ford, John McMurtry, Graham Martin, Harry Kemp, Charles Enquist, Susan Wheeler

• Helen Vendler

  • The Oxford Companion to 20th-Century Poetry in English edited by Ian Hamilton

• Colm Tóibín

  • Profane Friendship by Harold Brodkey

• Andrew O’Hagan

  • How late it was, how late by James Kelman

• Penelope Fitzgerald

  • The Moment between the Past and the Future by Grigorij Baklanov, translated by Catherine Porter
  • The Soul of a Patriot by Evgeny Popov, translated by Robert Porter

• T.J. Binyon

  • Strolls with Pushkin by Abram Tertz, translated by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy and Slava Yastremski

• Geoffrey Hawthorn

  • The Endangered American Dream: How to Stop the United States from Becoming a Third World Country and Win the Geo-Economic Struggle for Industrial Supremacy by Edward Luttwak
  • Japan’s Capitalism: Creative Defeat and Beyond by Shigeto Tsuru

• Kit McMahon

  • The Death of Economics by Paul Ormerod

• Michael Wood

  • The Conquest of Mexico by Hugh Thomas
  • The Conquest of Mexico by Serge Gruzinski, translated by Eileen Corrigan

• Ed Regis

  • The Beat of a Different Drum: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by Jagdish Mehra

• R.O. Gandy

  • Codebreakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park edited by F.H. Hinsley and Alan Stripp

• Alistair Elliot
  Two Poems

• Lawrence Hogben
  Diary

• Ruth Bernard Yeazell

  • The Hunger Artists: Starving, Writing and Imprisonment by Maud Ellmann