Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• James Buchan
• Erskine Childers
• Richard Clogg
• Basil Davidson
• Jenny Diski
• Alan Dixon
• Margaret Anne Doody
• Alistair Elliot
• P.N. Furbank
• Barbara Johnson
• Thomas Laqueur
• Mike Marqusee
• A.D. Nuttall
• Patrick Parrinder
• Philip Purser
• Malise Ruthven
• Avi Shlaim
• John Sutherland

Contents

• Erskine Childers
  Old-Boying

• Letters
  Charles Thomas, Lawrence Hogben, Donald Davie, Gerald Long, Robert Kaplan, Steven Rose, Clayton Naff

• Basil Davidson
  On Rwanda

• Thomas Laqueur

  • How We Die by Sherwin Nuland

• Alan Dixon
  Poem: ‘New Bike’

• Barbara Johnson

  • Mallarmé: A Throw of the Dice by Gordon Millan

• P.N. Furbank

  • The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson. Vol. II: April 1874-July 1879 edited by Bradford Booth and Ernest Mehew
  • The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson. Vol. II: April 1874-July 1879 edited by Bradford Booth and Ernest Mehew

• John Sutherland

  • Stained Radiance: A Fictionist’s Prelude by J. Leslie Mitchell
  • The Speak of the Mearns by Lewis Grassic Gibbon

• A.D. Nuttall

  • Essays, Mainly Shakespearean by Anne Barton
  • English Comedy edited by Michael Cordner, Peter Holland and John Kerrigan

• Margaret Anne Doody

  • Managing Monsters: Six Myths of Our Time by Marina Warner

• James Buchan

  • Thinking Green! Essays on Environmentalism, Feminism and Non-Violence by Petra Kelly

• Richard Clogg
  Greek-Bashing

• Malise Ruthven

  • The Revenge of God: The Resurgence of Islam, Christianity and Judaism in the Modern World by Gilles Kepel
  • Pious Passion: The Emergence of Modern Fundamentalism in the United States and Iran by Martin Riesebrodt

• Avi Shlaim

  • Israel’s Border Wars, 1949-56: Arab Infiltration, Israeli Retaliation and the Countdown to the Suez War by Benny Morris

• Alistair Elliot
  Poem: ‘Watches’

• Patrick Parrinder

  • Constructions of ‘the Jew’ in English Literature and Society: Racial Representations, 1875-1945 by Bryan Cheyette
  • The Jewish Heritage in British History: Englishness and Jewishness edited by Tony Kushner

• Philip Purser

  • The Fortunes of Casanova, and Other Stories by Rafael Sabatini, selected by Jack Adrian

• Mike Marqusee
  Diary

• Jenny Diski
  Homage to Barbara Cartland