CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Iqbal Ahmed
• Neal Ascherson
• Peter Campbell
• Robert Crawford
• Carl Elliott
• Joseph Frank
• Michael Hofmann
• Martin Jay
• Thomas Jones
• Frank Kermode
• Paul Laity
• Ross McKibbin
• George O’Brien
• Stephen O’Shea
• Carl Rakosi
• David Reynolds
• Brendan Simms
• Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Contents

• Ross McKibbin
  Nothing More Divisive: The Great Secondary School Disaster

• Letters
  Göran Nilsson, Jeffrey Frankland, Andrew Stilwell, William Gavin, Duncan Forbes, Gerald Moore, D.M. Roskies, Derick Schilling, Barbara Lewalski, Nick Matthews, Hywel Griffiths, P.N. Furbank, Judith Willson, Robin Thompson

• Thomas Jones
  In the Classroom: back to school

• Joseph Frank

  • Natasha’s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes

• George O’Brien
  In the Line of Fire: The Sniper

• Brendan Simms

  • Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City by Norman Davies and Roger Moorhouse

• Neal Ascherson

  • Berlin: The Downfall, 1945 by Antony Beevor

• Michael Hofmann

  • Doctor Glas by Hjalmar Söderberg, translated by Paul Britten Austin
  • The Serious Game by Hjalmar Söderberg, translated by Eva Claeson

• Ruth Bernard Yeazell

  • A Whistling Woman by A.S. Byatt

• Iqbal Ahmed
  Short Cuts: Oh to be in England

• Frank Kermode

  • The Angry Young Men: A Literary Comedy of the 1950s by Humphrey Carpenter

• Carl Rakosi
  Two Poems

• Paul Laity

  • Patriots: National Identity in Britain 1940-2000 by Richard Weight
  • Pariah: Misfortunes of the British Kingdom by Tom Nairn
  • Identity of England by Robert Colls
  • Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination by Peter Ackroyd

• Peter Campbell
  At Tate Britain: Gainsborough

• David Reynolds

  • Wilful Murder: The Sinking of the ‘Lusitania’ by Diana Preston
  • Lusitania: Saga and Myth by David Ramsay
  • Woodrow Wilson by John Thompson

• Martin Jay

  • Situatedness; Or, Why We Keep Saying Where We’re Coming From by David Simpson

• Robert Crawford
  Poem: ‘Emily Carr’

• Stephen O’Shea
  The Talk of Turkey: Should Turkey be worried?

• Carl Elliott
  Diary: The Ethics of Bioethics