Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• James Buchan
• Peter Clarke
• Robert Conquest
• Raymond Friel
• Ian Gilmour
• Gareth Stedman Jones
• Frank Kermode
• Edward Luttwak
• Thomas Lynch
• Hilary Mantel
• Douglas Oliver
• Jonathan Parry
• Adam Phillips
• Iain Sinclair
• Stephen Smith
• John Sturrock
• Kathryn Tidrick
• Maria Tippett

Contents

• Thomas Lynch
  The Undertaking

• Letters
  Stephen Sedley, Graham Dransfield, Brian Stone, Tim Burford, Jörg Rademacher, Peter Brown, William Scammell, Christopher Hitchens, Helen Tookey

• John Sturrock

  • Roland Barthes: A Biography by Louis-Jean Calvet, translated by Sarah Wykes

• Douglas Oliver
  Poem: ‘The Unseeing Drum’

• Frank Kermode

  • The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages by Harold Bloom

• Edward Luttwak
  Programmed to Fail

• Jonathan Parry

  • Curzon by David Gilmour

• Kathryn Tidrick

  • Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer by Patrick French

• Peter Clarke and Maria Tippett
  Is Quebec Crying Wolfe?

• Ian Gilmour

  • War and Peace in the Middle East: A Critique of American Policy by Avi Shlaim

• Robert Conquest

  • Stalin and the Bomb by David Holloway

• Raymond Friel
  Poem: ‘Father and Son’

• James Buchan

  • Test of Greatness: Britain’s Struggle for the Atom Bomb by Brian Cathcart

• Iain Sinclair

  • Original Sin by P.D. James
  • Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem by Peter Ackroyd
  • The Hidden Files: An Autobiography by Derek Raymond
  • Not till the Red Fog Rises by Derek Raymond

• Hilary Mantel

  • Under My Skin by Doris Lessing

• Adam Phillips
  The Experts

• Stephen Smith
  Diary

• Gareth Stedman Jones

  • Private Lives, Public Spirit: A Social History of Britain 1870-1914 by José Harris