CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• John Bayley
• John Bossy
• Allen Curnow
• Paul Foot
• Henry Gee
• Walter Gratzer
• Ian Hamilton
• Gerald Hammond
• Jeremy Harding
• Robert Irwin
• Ross McKibbin
• Fintan O’Toole
• Dale Peck
• Tim Radford
• Carl Rakosi

Contents

• Ross McKibbin
  Why the Tories Lost

• Letters
  

• Allen Curnow
  Poem: ‘The Kindest Thing’

• Paul Foot

  • Number One Millbank: The Financial Downfall of the Church of England by Terry Lovell

• Ian Hamilton

  • Autobiographies by R.S. Thomas
  • Furious Interiors: Wales, R.S. Thomas and God by Justin Wintle
  • Collected Poems 1945-90 by R.S. Thomas

• Jeremy Harding

  • Conductors of Chaos: A Poetry Anthology edited by Iain Sinclair
  • Nearly Too Much: The Poetry of J.H. Prynne by N.H. Reeve and Richard Kerridge
  • Carl Rakosi: Poems 1923-41 edited by Andrew Crozier
  • The Objectivists edited by Andrew McAllister

• Carl Rakosi
  Poem: ‘Ballad of the Diminished I’

• Tim Radford
  It’s life but not as we know it

• Henry Gee

  • T. Rex and the Crater of Doom by Walter Alvarez

• Fintan O’Toole
  A Singular Territory

• John Bayley

  • Moscow Stations by Venedikt Yerofeev, translated by Stephen Mulrine

• Robert Irwin

  • Quarantine by Jim Crace

• Dale Peck

  • American Pastoral by Philip Roth

• Walter Gratzer

  • A Short History of Cardiology by Peter Fleming

• Gerald Hammond
  Diary

• John Bossy

  • The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 by Antonia Fraser