Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Bayley
• Mary Beard
• Susie Boyt
• Peter Clarke
• Donald Davie
• Jenny Diski
• Mark Ford
• John Gittings
• Jeremy Harding
• Simon Kelner
• Frank Kermode
• John Redmond
• Nicholas Roe
• Malise Ruthven
• Ian Sansom
• Nicholas Spice
• Gaby Wood

Contents

• Nicholas Spice

  • Repeated Takes: A Short History of Recording and its Effects on Music by Michael Chanan
  • Elevator Music: A Surreal History of Muzak Easy Listening and other Moodsong by Joseph Lanza

• Letters
  Min Wild, Brian Harrison, Linda Holt, Luc Sante, James Wood, Michael Smith, Peter Martin, Bernard Knox, Warren Keith Wright, John Philip, F.D. Parsons

• Peter Clarke

  • The Path to Power by Margaret Thatcher

• Mark Ford
  Poem: ‘Looping the Loop’

• John Gittings

  • Deng Xiaoping: My Father by Deng Mao Mao
  • Deng Xiaoping and the Making of Modern China by Richard Evans
  • China After Deng Xiaoping by Willy Wo-lap Lam
  • Burying Mao: Chinese Politics in the Age of Deng Xiaoping by Richard Baum
  • Deng Xiaoping: Chronicle of an Empire by Ruan Ming

• Jeremy Harding
  A Death in Eritrea

• Mary Beard

  • The Diary of a Breast by Elisa Segrave

• Jenny Diski

  • Hippie Hippie Shake: The Dreams, the Trips, the Trials, the Love-ins, The Screw Ups … The Sixties by Richard Neville

• Frank Kermode

  • The Double Tongue by William Golding

• John Bayley

  • Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel by Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle

• John Redmond

  • A Word from the Loki by Maurice Riordan
  • After the Deafening by Gerard Woodward
  • The Ice-Pilot Speaks by Pauline Stainer
  • The Angel of History by Carolyn Forché
  • The Neighbour by Michael Collier
  • Jubilation by Charles Tomlinson

• Ian Sansom

  • Selected Poems by Carol Ann Duffy

• Nicholas Roe
  Wordsworth’s Lost Satire

• Donald Davie

  • Selected Poems by William Barnes, edited by Andrew Motion
  • Selected Poems by William Barnes, read by Alan Chedzoy

• Gaby Wood

  • Katharine Hepburn by Barbara Leaming

• Susie Boyt

  • A Match to the Heart: One Woman’s Story of Being Struck by Lightning by Gretel Ehrlich

• Simon Kelner
  Diary

• Malise Ruthven

  • Islamic Britain: Religion, Politics and Identity among British Muslims by Philip Lewis
  • The Failure of Political Islam by Olivier Roy, translated by Carol Volk