Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Gabriele Annan
• Patricia Beer
• Ronan Bennett
• Clarence Brown
• Nuruddin Farah
• R.W. Johnson
• Frank Kermode
• Thomas Lynch
• Colin McGinn
• Jean McNicol
• Tom Nairn
• Katha Pollitt
• John Redmond
• Gaby Wood
• James Wood

Contents

• Ronan Bennett
  The Party and the Army

• Letters
  Adrian Bowyer, Nicolas Tredell, Ormond Uren, Jane Howard, Correlli Barnett, Jenny Diski, Jeremy Bernstein, Perry Anderson, Christopher Reid, Sarah LeFanu, Linda Edmondson, Dennis Griffiths, Kyril FitzLyon, John Commander

• R.W. Johnson

  • Slovo: The Unfinished Autobiography by Joe Slovo

• Tom Nairn

  • The Race Gallery: The Return of Racial Science by Marek Kohn

• Katha Pollitt

  • Barren in the Promised Land: Childless Americans and the Pursuit of Happiness by Elaine Tyler May
  • Mothers in Law: Feminist Theory and the Legal Regulation of Motherhood edited by Martha Albertson Fineman and Isabel Karpin
  • What about Us? An Open Letter to the Mothers Feminism Forgot by Maureen Freely
  • Kidding Ourselves: Breadwinning, Babies and Bargaining Power by Rhona Mahony

• Patricia Beer

  • Hearts Undefeated: Women’s Writing of the Second World War edited by Jenny Hartley

• Jean McNicol

  • Vera Brittain: A Life by Paul Berry and Mark Bostridge
  • Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life by Deborah Gorham

• Gabriele Annan

  • A Woman in Amber: Healing the Trauma of War and Exile by Agate Nesaule

• Nuruddin Farah
  People of a Half-Way House

• Colin McGinn

  • Ludwig Wittgenstein: Cambridge Letters edited by Brian McGuinness and Georg Henrik von Wright

• James Wood

  • Soul Says: On Recent Poetry by Helen Vendler
  • The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham by Helen Vendler
  • The Given and the Made: Strategies of Poetic Redefinition by Helen Vendler

• Frank Kermode

  • In the Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike

• Clarence Brown

  • The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov edited by Dmitri Nabokov

• John Redmond
  Two Poems

• Gaby Wood
  Diary

• Thomas Lynch
  Crapper