CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• John Barrell
• Peter Campbell
• Tessa Hadley
• Eric Hobsbawm
• Anne Hollander
• R.W. Johnson
• Thomas Jones
• Frank Kermode
• Adam Kuper
• Hugh Pennington
• Retort
• David Runciman
• Matthew Sweeney
• Hsien Min Toh
• Colm Tóibín
• Michael Wood

Contents

• David Runciman

  • Restoring Responsibility: Ethics in Government, Business and Healthcare by Dennis Thompson
  • NHS plc: The Privatisation of Our Healthcare by Allyson Pollock
  • Brown’s Britain by Robert Peston

• Letters
  Martin Schifino, Oliver Streets, Bernard Crick, Christopher Small, Natasha Carver, Alex Simpson, Phil Edwards, Marilyn Francis, Gerrard Roots, Alan Bernheimer, Mike Killingworth, Christopher Prendergast

• Colm Tóibín

  • The Complete Stories by Truman Capote
  • Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote edited by Gerald Clarke

• Retort
  Blood for Oil?: The takeover of Iraq

• Michael Wood

  • Going Sane by Adam Phillips

• Matthew Sweeney
  Two Poems

• Tessa Hadley

  • Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Basingstoke’s Paisleyite

• Frank Kermode

  • Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

• John Barrell

  • The Laughter of Triumph: William Hone and the Fight for a Free Press by Ben Wilson

• Hsien Min Toh
  Poem: ‘Durians’

• R.W. Johnson

  • Reggie: The Life of Reginald Maudling by Lewis Baston

• Peter Campbell
  At Kew: The ultimate in controlled habitat-imitation

• Hugh Pennington

  • Return of the Black Death: The World’s Greatest Serial Killer by Susan Scott and Christopher Duncan
  • The Great Plague: The Story of London’s Most Deadly Year by Lloyd Moote and Dorothy Moote
  • Plague: The Mysterious Past and Terrifying Future of the World’s Most Dangerous Disease by Wendy Orent

• Adam Kuper
  Clueless: police rituals

• Anne Hollander

  • Nazi Chic? Fashioning Women in the Third Reich by Irene Guenther
  • Fashion under Fascism: Beyond the Black Shirt by Eugenia Paulicelli

• Eric Hobsbawm
  An Assembly of Ghosts: Gorbachev, My Hero