Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Iain Bamforth
• Nick Cohen
• Paul Foot
• James Francken
• Tony Harrison
• Frank Kermode
• John Mullan
• John Reader
• Alan Ryan
• Edward Said
• Patrick Sims-Williams
• Francis Spufford
• Jonathan Steinberg
• Robert Tombs
• Frances Wilson
• Slavoj Žižek

Contents

• Slavoj Žižek

  • Václav Havel: A Political Tragedy in Six Acts by John Keane

• Letters
  Geoffrey Elliott, Anthony Lewis, V.M. Hunt, David Brokensha, Oleg Gordievsky, Tom Paulin, David Stirzaker, John Jolliffe, Paul Usherwood, Jonathan Mirsky, William Myers, Pasquale Montagna, Phil Edwards, Elizabeth Lowry, Thomas Ingram

• Iain Bamforth

  • Selected Poems: 1956-93 by Günter Grass, translated by Michael Hamburger

• Jonathan Steinberg

  • The World’s Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild by Niall Ferguson

• John Mullan

  • Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times: Volume I by Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, edited by Philip Ayres
  • Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times: Volume II by Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, edited by Philip Ayres

• Tony Harrison
  Two Poems

• Frank Kermode

  • Basil Street Blues: A Family Story by Michael Holroyd

• John Reader

  • The Physician and the Slave Trade: John Kirk, the Livingstone Expeditions, and the Crusade against Slavery in East Africa by Daniel Liebowitz

• Alan Ryan

  • The Cambridge Apostles 1820-1914: Liberalism, Imagination and Friendship in British Intellectual and Professional Life by W.C. Lubenow

• Francis Spufford
  Operation Backfire: Britain’s space programme

• Edward Said
  In Memory of Tahia: Tahia Carioca

• Frances Wilson

  • Thomas Lovell Beddoes: Selected Poetry edited by Judith Higgens and Michael Bradshaw

• Patrick Sims-Williams

  • The Atlantic Celts: Ancient People or Modern Invention? by Simon James

• James Francken

  • For the Relief of Unbearable Urges by Nathan Englander

• Nick Cohen

  • Living on Thin Air: The New Economy by Charles Leadbeater

• Robert Tombs

  • Le Monde retrouvó de Louis-François Pinagot: Sur let Traces d’un Inconnu, 1798-1876 by Alain Corbin

• Paul Foot
  Diary: the Labour Party’s vacillation over rail privatisation