CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Simon Armitage
• Iain Bamforth
• Julian Bell
• Peter Campbell
• Simon Chesterman
• Ian Gilmour
• Ian Hacking
• R.W. Johnson
• Thomas Jones
• Frank Kermode
• August Kleinzahler
• John Lloyd
• Hilary Mantel
• J.L. Nelson
• Graham Robb
• Thomas de Waal
• James Ward

Contents

• Ian Hacking

  • Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami, translated by Alfred Birnbaum

• Letters
  Anthony Cassidy, W.G. Runciman, Denis Sampson, Dan Franklin, Malcolm Hurwitt, Judith Chernaik, Editor, ‘London Review’, Glen Newey, Scott Herrick, J.G Owen, Bryn James, Julian Bradfield, Brian Southam, Adrian Bowyer, Sarah Roth

• August Kleinzahler
  Poem: ‘September: Lake Wannsee, Berlin’

• R.W. Johnson

  • The Prime Minister: The Office and Its Holders since 1945 by Peter Hennessy

• Peter Campbell
  At the V&A: fashion photography

• Ian Gilmour

  • The Cliveden Set: Portrait of an Exclusive Fraternity by Norman Rose

• J.L. Nelson

  • Joan of Arc by Mary Gordon
  • Joan of Arc: A Military Leader by Kelly DeVries
  • The Interrogation of Joan of Arc by Karen Sullivan

• Frank Kermode

  • Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Prose by Raymond Carver

• Simon Armitage
  Three Poems

• Julian Bell

  • Looking back at Francis Bacon by David Sylvester

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: What’s in a name?

• Graham Robb

  • Romanticism and Its Discontents by Anita Brookner

• Hilary Mantel
  How Shall I Know You?

• Thomas de Waal

  • Ali and Nino by Kurban Said, translated by Jenia Graman

• James Ward

  • Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley

• Simon Chesterman

  • The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices by Elazar Barkan

• John Lloyd

  • British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics: Vol. I: The Postwar Compromise, 1945-64 edited by John McIlroy and Nina Fishman et al
  • British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics: Vol. II: The High Tide of Trade Unionism, 1964-79 edited by John McIlroy and Nina Fishman et al
  • The TUC: From the General Strike to New Unionism by Robert Taylor

• Iain Bamforth
  Bodyworlds on the human body