Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• T.H. Barrett
• John Bayley
• Peter Campbell
• Peter Clarke
• Paul Foot
• John Fuller
• R.W. Johnson
• Frank Kermode
• John Lloyd
• Adam Mars-Jones
• Elisa Segrave
• Avi Shlaim
• C.K. Stead
• Colm Tóibín
• E.S. Turner
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Colm Tóibín
  On (Not) Saying What You Mean

• Letters
  Min Wild, Wendy Hammond, Anthony Barnett, J.R. Evenhuis, Benedict Anderson, Rosemary Hill, Bernard Cashman, Ruth Murr, Will Podmore, Warren Keith Wright, Boris Ford, Nicholas Jacobs, Robert Sargent, Jean Heffernan

• John Fuller
  Poem: ‘Pyrosymphonie’

• R.W. Johnson

  • SDP: The Birth, Life and Death of the Social Democratic Party by Ivor Crewe and Anthony King

• Paul Foot

  • The New Untouchables: Immigration and the New World Worker by Nigel Harris
  • The Cambridge Survey of World Migration edited by Robin Cohen

• Peter Clarke

  • Gladstone by Roy Jenkins

• Adam Mars-Jones

  • Homosexuality: A History by Colin Spencer
  • Virtually Normal: An Argument about Homosexuality by Andrew Sullivan
  • Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography by David Halperin

• E.S. Turner

  • Noël Coward: A Biography by Philip Hoare

• John Lloyd
  In Fear and Trembling to the Polls

• Avi Shlaim

  • Intimate Enemies: Jews and Arabs in a Shared Land by Meron Benvenisti

• Michael Wood

  • Belle du Seigneur by Albert Cohen, translated by David Coward

• C.K. Stead

  • Shards of Memory by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

• John Bayley

  • Byrne by Anthony Burgess

• Frank Kermode
  My Mad Captains

• T.H. Barrett

  • Did Marco Polo Go to China? by Frances Wood

• Elisa Segrave
  Diary

• Peter Campbell

  • Shadows and Enlightenment by Michael Baxandall