Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Bossy
• Colin Burrow
• Terry Eagleton
• Eric Foner
• Raymond Friel
• Ian Hamilton
• Martin Jay
• R.W. Johnson
• Thomas Jones
• Robert Macfarlane
• Les Murray
• Ruth Padel
• Bernard Porter
• Brian Rotman
• Mark Rudman
• Edward Said
• Iain Sinclair
• Paul Smith
• Theo Tait
• David Trotter
• John Upton
• James Wood

Contents

• Ian Hamilton

  • The Letters of Kingsley Amis edited by Zachary Leader

• Letters
  Terry Philpot, Julian Roach, Douglas Kretzmann, Gloria Grove-Stephensen, R.W. Johnson, Alfred Jowett, Anthony Beck, Julian Burgess, Kevan Martin, Geoffrey Lock, Paul Romney, Leo Zaibert, Myron Kaplan, Charley Seavey, F.S. Schwarzbach, Michael Brookes, Catherine Conybeare, Editor, ‘London Review’

• R.W. Johnson
  A Dangerous Occupation: The Land Wars of Southern Africa

• Les Murray
  Poem: ‘Predawn in Health’

• David Trotter

  • Return to Yesterday by Ford Madox Ford, edited by Bill Hutchings
  • War Prose by Ford Madox Ford, edited by Max Saunders

• Raymond Friel
  Two Poems

• Colin Burrow

  • Shakespeare's Language by Frank Kermode

• John Bossy

  • Cardano’s Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer by Anthony Grafton

• Brian Rotman

  • The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh
  • In Code: A Mathematical Journey by Sarah Flannery
  • Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption by Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau

• Iain Sinclair

  • 45 by Bill Drummond
  • Crucify Me Again by Mark Manning

• Eric Foner

  • Working-Class New York: Life and Labour Since World War Two by Joshua Freeman

• Martin Jay

  • The End of Utopia: Politics and Culture in an Age of Apathy by Russell Jacoby
  • Utopias: Russian Modernist Texts 1905-40 edited by Catriona Kelly
  • The Faber Book of Utopias edited by John Carey
  • The Nazi War on Cancer by Robert Proctor

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts

• Paul Smith

  • Stanley Baldwin: Conservative Leadership and National Values by Philip Williamson

• Bernard Porter

  • The Struggle for Civil Liberties: Political Freedom and the Rule of Law in Britain 1914-1945 by K.D. Ewing and C.A. Gearty

• John Upton
  Going Not Guilty: back in court

• Ruth Padel
  Two Poems

• Terry Eagleton

  • Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature by Peter Brooks

• James Wood
  Rambling: Speaking our Minds

• Mark Rudman

  • Approximately Nowhere by Michael Hoffman

• Theo Tait

  • Driving the Heart by Jason Brown

• Robert Macfarlane

  • Waiting by Ha Jin

• Edward Said
  Diary: an encounter with J-P Sartre