Cover: George Hurrell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Richard Altick
• Robert Barnard
• John Barrell
• Anne Barton
• John Bayley
• Alan Bell
• T.J. Binyon
• Robert Blake
• Ken Follett
• Norman Hampson
• F.W.J. Hemmings
• Hugh Lloyd-Jones
• Derek Mahon
• Richard Mayne
• John Naughton
• J.I.M. Stewart
• John Sutherland
• Geoffrey Wheatcroft
• Barbara Wootton
• John Ziman

Contents

• Richard Altick

  • The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance
  • The Elephant Man: the Book of the Film by Joy Kuhn
  • The Elephant Man by Christine Sparks
  • The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences by Frederick Treves
  • The Elephant Man and Other Freaks by Sian Richards
  • The True History of the Elephant Man by Michael Howell and Peter Ford

• Letters
  Morton Schatzman, Anne Sington, Douglas Johnson, Michael Dummett, Michael Levey, Neil Hirschson

• Robert Blake

  • Harold Nicolson: A Biography: Vol. 1, 1886-1929 by James Lees-Milne
  • Harold Nicolson Diaries 1930-1964 by Stanley Olson

• Barbara Wootton

  • Healey’s Eye by Denis Healey
  • The Role of the Trade Unions: The Granada Guildhall Lectures by James Prior, Tony Benn and Lionel Murray
  • Rank and File by Hugh Jenkins
  • The Tragedy of Labour by Stephen Haseler
  • Labour into the Eighties edited by David Bell

• John Naughton

  • Seeds of Plenty, Seeds of Want by Andrew Pearse
  • Food First by Francis Moore Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins

• Geoffrey Wheatcroft

  • The Rise and Fall of Prussia by Sebastian Haffner
  • The Northern Crusades: The Baltic and the Catholic Frontier 1100-1525 by Eric Christiansen

• John Ziman

  • Landau: A Great Physicist and Teacher by Anna Livanova, translated by J.B. Sykes

• F.W.J. Hemmings

  • Stendhal by Robert Alter

• Derek Mahon
  Poem: ‘Songs of Praise’

• Norman Hampson

  • Jacques-Louis David by Anita Brookner

• John Barrell

  • Thomas Gainsborough by John Hayes

• Anne Barton

  • Puritanism and Theatre by Margot Heinemann
  • John Webster: Citizen and Dramatist by M.C. Bradbrook

• Hugh Lloyd-Jones

  • Sophocles: An Interpretation by R.P. Winnington-Ingram

• John Bayley

  • John Betjeman’s Collected Poems compiled by the Earl of Birkenhead
  • Church Poems by John Betjeman

• John Sutherland

  • Loon Lake by E.L. Doctorow
  • Alice fell by Emma Tennant
  • The Covenant by James Michener
  • Ancesteral Vices by Tom Sharpe

• Richard Mayne

  • Caligari’s Children by S.S. Prawer
  • The Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Kubrick, Coppola, Scorsese, Altman by Robert Phillip Kolker

• T.J. Binyon

  • The Best Short Stories of John Buchan edited by David Daniell

• Alan Bell

  • Montague Rhodes James by Richard William Pfaff

• J.I.M. Stewart

  • The Case of the Philosophers’ Ring by Dr John H. Watson by Randall Collins

• Robert Barnard

  • Plaster Sinners by Colin Watson
  • Photo-Finish by Ngaio Marsh
  • The Predator by Russell Braddon

• Ken Follett

  • Who’s on first by William Buckley