Cover: Tom Miller

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Neal Ascherson
• Anita Brookner
• Frank Cioffi
• Peter Clarke
• Jon Elster
• Jon Halliday
• Selima Hill
• G. Cabrera Infante
• Clive James
• Douglas Johnson
• D.A.N. Jones
• Robert Morley
• Michael Neve
• Martin Pugh
• Malise Ruthven
• Matthew Sweeney

Contents

• Peter Clarke
  Margaret Thatcher is about to have another of her triumphs

• Martin Pugh

  • Renewal: Labour’s Britain in the 1980s by Shadow Cabinet, edited by Gerald Kaufman
  • Socialism in a Cold Climate edited by John Griffith
  • Liberal Party Politics edited by Vernon Bogdanor

• Letters
  John Lucas, Alan Hurst, Donald Davie, D.G. Wright, Nicolas Walter, Paul Delany

• Douglas Johnson

  • The Eisenhower Diaries edited by Robert Ferrell
  • The Life and Times of Joe McCarthy: A Biography by Thomas Reeves
  • The past has another pattern by George Ball
  • Torn Lace Curtain by Frank Saunders and James Southwood
  • The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power by Robert Caro
  • The Politician: The Life and Times of Lyndon Johnson by Ronnie Dugger
  • Years of Upheaval by Henry Kissinger
  • Richard Nixon: The Shaping of his Character by Fawn Brodie
  • Haig: The General’s Progress by Roger Morris
  • Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President by Jimmy Carter
  • Crisis: The Last Year of the Carter Presidency by Hamilton Jordan
  • Power and Principle: Memoirs of the National Security Adviser 1977-81 by Zbigniew Brzezinski

• Selima Hill
  Poem: ‘Chicken Feathers’

• Jon Elster

  • Selfless Persons: Imagery and Thought in Theravada Buddhism by Steven Collins
  • Le Bonheur-Liberté: Bouddhisme Profond et Modernité by Serge-Christophe Kolm

• Clive James
  Poem: ‘The book of my enemy has been remaindered’

• Michael Neve
  Is Michael Neve paranoid?

• Frank Cioffi

  • Philosophical Essays on Freud edited by Richard Wollheim and James Hopkins
  • The Legend of Freud by Samuel Weber

• Jon Halliday

  • In the Service of the Peacock Throne: The Diaries of the Shah’s Last Ambassador to London by Parviz Radji

• Malise Ruthven

  • The Helen Smith Story by Paul Foot and Ron Smith

• G. Cabrera Infante

  • The Fragrance of Guava: Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza in conversation with Gabriel Garcia Marquez translated by Ann Wright

• Anita Brookner

  • Porky by Deborah Moggach
  • The Banquet by Carolyn Slaughter
  • Binstead’s Safari by Rachel Ingalls
  • In Good Faith by Edith Reveley
  • Cousins by Monica Furlong
  • The Moons of Jupiter by Alice Munro
  • On the Stroll by Alix Kates Shulman
  • The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  • Mistral’s Daughter by Judith Krantz

• Neal Ascherson
  Diary

• D.A.N. Jones
  Popping

• Robert Morley

  • Godfrey: A Special Time Remembered by Jill Bennett

• Matthew Sweeney
  Poem: ‘The Servant’