Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Tim Atkin
• John Bayley
• Alan Bennett
• Don Coles
• Linda Colley
• Terry Eagleton
• Walter Gratzer
• Armand Marie Leroi
• Lulu Norman
• Martha Nussbaum
• Michael Rogin
• Anthony Thwaite
• E.S. Turner
• Anna Vaux
• Simon Walker
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Linda Colley

  • Edmund Burke: A Life in Caricature by Nicholas Robinson
  • The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke. Vol. III: Party, Parliament and the American War 1774-80 edited by Warren Elofson and John Woods
  • Edmund Burke and India: Political Morality and Empire by Frederick Whelan

• Letters
  Kenneth Blake, Sam Tanenhaus, Robert Ostermann, Timothy Barnard, Ronald Fraser, Terry Gifford, L.G. Norman

• Terry Eagleton

  • Modern British Utopias 1700-1850 by Gregory Claeys

• Michael Wood

  • Enduring Love by Ian McEwan

• John Bayley

  • Selected Letters of George Meredith edited by Mohammad Shaheen

• Alan Bennett
  K.B. McFarlane is remembered by Alan Bennett, his former student, and the life of a Forties Oxford don is evoked in two of his letters

• Simon Walker

  • Richard II by Nigel Saul

• Anthony Thwaite
  Poem: ‘Elegiac Stanzas’

• Martha Nussbaum

  • Living High and Letting Die: Our Illusion of Innocence by Peter Unger

• E.S. Turner

  • The Fu Manchu Omnibus: Vol. II by Sax Rohmer

• Don Coles
  Poem: ‘Botanical Gardens’

• Armand Marie Leroi

  • Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
  • Why is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality by Jared Diamond

• Walter Gratzer

  • The End of Science by John Horgan

• Anna Vaux

  • Out Of Me: The Story of a Postnatal Breakdown by Fiona Shaw

• Michael Rogin

  • Raymond Chandler: A Biography by Tom Hiney
  • Raymond Chandler Speaking edited by Dorothy Gardiner and Kathrine Sorley Walker

• Lulu Norman
  Diary

• Tim Atkin

  • Science, Vine and Wine in Modern France by Harry Paul