Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Bernard Bailyn
• John Bayley
• Sheila Fitzpatrick
• Paul Foot
• William Gass
• Lavinia Greenlaw
• Jose Harris
• Mary Hawthorne
• Keith Hopkins
• Frank Kermode
• John Lloyd
• Jonathan Parry
• Nicholas Penny
• W.G. Runciman
• Simon Schaffer
• John Sturrock
• John Sutherland
• Michael Wood

Contents

• William Gass

  • The Arabian Nights: A Companion by Robert Irwin

• Letters
  Alan Sinfield, Fred Emery, Frank Kermode, Jill Paton Walsh, Ann Thwaite, Anna Freeman, Joseph Nuttgens, Bernard McCabe, Anthony Paul, Mark Wainwright

• Lavinia Greenlaw
  Poem: ‘Invention’

• John Sturrock

  • A Void by Georges Perec, translated by Gilbert Adair

• W.G. Runciman
  Some Afterthoughts on the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice in England and Wales

• Jose Harris

  • Selected Writings. Vol. I: Crime and the Penal System 1 by Barbara Wootton, edited by Vera Seal and Philip Bean
  • Selected Writings. Vol. II: Crime and the Penal System 2 by Barbara Wootton, edited by Vera Seal and Philip Bean
  • Selected Writings. Vol. III: Social and Political Thought by Barbara Wootton, edited by Vera Seal and Philip Bean
  • Selected Writings. Vol. IV: Economic and Methodological Thought by Barbara Wootton, edited by Vera Seal and Philip Bean

• Paul Foot

  • Hanson: A Biography by Alex Brummer and Roger Cowe

• Keith Hopkins

  • The Formation of Hell by Alan Bernstein

• Simon Schaffer

  • Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture by William Eamon
  • The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire by Pamela Smith

• Nicholas Penny

  • Wealth and the Demand for Art in Italy 1300-1600 by Richard Goldthwaite

• Bernard Bailyn

  • Mobility and Migration: East Anglian Founders of New England, 1629-1640 by Roger Thompson
  • Adapting to a New World: English Society in the 17th-century Chesapeake by James Horn

• John Sutherland

  • Assessment of the Quality of Education: Circular 3/93
  • 1996 Research Assessment Exercise: Circular RAE96 1/94

• Frank Kermode

  • Frieda Lawrence by Rosie Jackson
  • The Married Man: A Life of D.H. Lawrence by Brenda Maddox
  • Kangaroo by D.H. Lawrence, edited by Bruce Steele
  • Twilight in Italy and Other Essays by D.H. Lawrence, edited by Paul Eggert

• Michael Wood

  • The Love of the Last Tycoon: A Western by F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by Matthew Bruccoli
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by Matthew Bruccoli
  • Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers

• Mary Hawthorne

  • The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis

• Sheila Fitzpatrick

  • Memoirs of Peasant Tolstoyans in Soviet Russia translated and edited by William Edgerton

• John Lloyd

  • Eternal Russia: Yeltsin, Gorbachev and the Mirage of Democracy by Jonathan Steele
  • Post-Communist Societies in Transition by John Gray

• John Bayley
  Diary

• Jonathan Parry

  • The Gladstone Diaries, with Cabinet Minutes and Prime-Ministerial Correspondence. Vol. XII: 1887-1891 edited by H.C.G. Matthew
  • The Gladstone Diaries, with Cabinet Minutes and Prime-Ministerial Correspondence. Vol. XIII: 1892-1896 edited by H.C.G. Matthew
  • The Gladstone Diaries, with Cabinet Minutes and Prime-Ministerial Correspondence. Vol. XIV: Index edited by H.C.G. Matthew