Cover: Homer Sykes

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• R.N. Allan
• Christopher Driver
• Geoffrey Hawthorn
• Christopher Hitchens
• Philip Horne
• D.A.N. Jones
• Frank Kermode
• Marghanita Laski
• Jamie McKendrick
• Robert Bernard Martin
• Richard Mayne
• Adam Morton
• Robert Neild
• Brian O’Shaughnessy
• Claude Rawson
• W.G. Runciman
• Francis Wyndham

Contents

• W.G. Runciman

  • The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook: The First Guide to What Really Matters in Life by Ann Barr and Peter York

• Letters
  Simon Jenkins, Tam Dalyell, Laura (Riding) Jackson, Emily Prager, Ken Smith, Tom Paulin, Clive James, Editor, ‘London Review of Books’, John Lord

• Geoffrey Hawthorn

  • A Treatise on Social Theory. Vol. I: The Methodology of Social Theory by W.G. Runciman

• Richard Mayne

  • The Wheat and the Chaff: The Personal Diaries of the President of France 1971-1978 by François Mitterrand, translated by Richard Woodward, Helen Lane and Concilia Hayter
  • The French by Theodore Zeldin

• R.N. Allan
  Poem: ‘Ironbridge’

• Jamie McKendrick
  Poem: ‘Kitchener’s Bane’

• Robert Neild

  • War Plan UK: The Truth about Civil Defence in Britain by Duncan Campbell
  • With Enough Shovels: Reagan, Bush and Nuclear War by Robert Scheer

• Christopher Hitchens

  • The Purple Decades by Tom Wolfe

• Robert Bernard Martin

  • Spirit of Wit: Reconsiderations of Rochester edited by Jeremy Treglown

• Christopher Driver

  • Ararat by D.M. Thomas

• Claude Rawson

  • ‘The Bronze Horseman’ and Other Poems by Alexander Pushkin, translated by D.M. Thomas
  • Alexander Pushkin: A Critical Study by A.D.P. Briggs
  • ‘Choiseul and Talleyrand’: A Historical Novella and Other Poems, with New Verse Translations of Alexander Pushkin by Charles Johnston
  • Mozart and Salieri: The Little Tragedies by Alexander Pushkin, translated by Antony Wood
  • I have come to greet you by Afanasy Fet, translated by James Greene
  • Uncollected Poems by John Betjeman
  • Travelling without a Valid Ticket by Howard Sergeant

• Philip Horne

  • The Slow Train to Milan by Lisa St Aubin de Teran
  • Holy Pictures by Clare Boylan
  • Pilgermann by Russell Hoban
  • September Castle: A Tale of Love by Simon Raven
  • The Watcher by Charles Maclean
  • The Little Drummer Girl by John Le Carré

• Brian O’Shaughnessy

  • The Character of Mind by Colin McGinn

• Adam Morton

  • Style and Communication in the English Language by Randolph Quirk

• D.A.N. Jones
  Saturday Night in Darlington

• Francis Wyndham
  The Ground Hostess

• Frank Kermode
  Diary

• Marghanita Laski
  Woman in Love