Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Gabriele Annan
• Anthony Appiah
• John Ashbery
• John Bayley
• Patricia Beer
• Marilyn Butler
• Basil Davidson
• R.W. Davies
• Owen Flanagan
• Paul Foot
• Mark Ford
• Ian Hacking
• Laura (Riding) Jackson
• Elaine Showalter
• Mark Urban
• Michael Wood
• Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Contents

• Michael Wood

  • The Moor’s Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie

• Letters
  Michael Longley, Peter Sampson, S.S. Prawer, Brian Southam, Linda-Jo Bartholomew, Marianne Macdonald, Editor, ‘London Review’, Harold Dorn, Keith Flett, Caroline Norwood, Roger Pebody, Ethna Viney, J. Mark Smith, Barry Simner, Endre Marton, L.B. McKenzie

• Ian Hacking

  • What ‘Natives’ Think: About Captain Cook, For Example by Marshall Sahlins

• John Ashbery
  Five Poems

• Marilyn Butler

  • The Life of Walter Scott: A Critical Biography by John Sutherland

• Ruth Bernard Yeazell

  • Mrs Oliphant: ‘A Fiction to Herself’ by Elisabeth Jay

• Patricia Beer
  Poem: ‘Art History’

• Paul Foot

  • Jeffrey Archer: Stranger than Fiction by Michael Crick

• Owen Flanagan

  • Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness by Roger Penrose

• Anthony Appiah

  • Colonial Psychiatry and the ‘African Mind’ by Jock McCulloch

• Basil Davidson

  • The Church in Africa, 1450-1950 by Adrian Hastings
  • A History of Christianity in Africa from Antiquity to the Present by Elizabeth Isichei
  • Religion in Africa: Experience and Expression edited by Thomas Blakely, Walter van Beek and Dennis Thomson

• Mark Urban

  • Brassey’s Defence Yearbook 1995 edited by Lawrence Freedman and Michael Clarke
  • Broken Lives: A Personal View of the Bosnian Conflict by Bob Stewart
  • Looking for Trouble: An Autobiography by Peter de la Billière

• R.W. Davies

  • Stalin’s Letters to Molotov, 1925-1936 edited by Lars Lih, Oleg Naumov and Oleg Khlevniuk
  • Pisma I.V. Stalina V.M. Molotovu, 1925-1936: Sbornik Dokumentov compiled by L. Kosheleva, V. Lelchuk, V. Naumov, O. Naumov and L. Rogovaya
  • Iosif Stalin v Obyatiyakh Semi: Iz Lichnogo Arkhiva compiled by Yu. G. Murin

• Gabriele Annan

  • 1920 Diary by Isaac Babel, edited by Carol Avins, translated by H.T. Willetts
  • Collected Stories by Isaac Babel, translated by David McDuff

• John Bayley

  • The Poems of John Dryden: Vol. I, 1649-1681; Vol. II, 1682-1685 edited by Paul Hammond

• Laura (Riding) Jackson
  The Promise of Words

• Laura (Riding) Jackson
  Poem: ‘In Gratuitous Witness’

• Elaine Showalter
  Diary

• Mark Ford

  • Robert Graves: Life on the Edge by Miranda Seymour
  • Robert Graves and the White Goddess by Richard Perceval Graves
  • Robert Graves: His Life and Work by Martin Seymour-Smith
  • Robert Graves: Collected Writings on Poetry edited by Paul O’Prey
  • Robert Graves: The Centenary Selected Poems edited by Patrick Quinn