Cover: André de Dienes

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Richard Altick
• John Bayley
• Ian Davidson
• Christopher Driver
• David Gilmour
• Stephen Greenblatt
• Stuart Hampshire
• Brian Harrison
• Ted Hughes
• Ian Jack
• Chauncey Loomis
• Malise Ruthven
• Carolyn Steedman
• John Sutherland
• Lucy Anne Watt
• Patrick Wormald
• John Yandell

Contents

• David Gilmour

  • The Siege: The Saga of Zionism and Israel by Conor Cruise O’Brien

• Letters
  C.K. Stead, Adrian Room, The ‘Rising Sun’

• Stephen Greenblatt

  • Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy by Judith Brown

• Patrick Wormald

  • Women in Anglo-Saxon England and the Impact of 1066 by Christine Fell, Cecily Clark and Elizabeth Williams

• Christopher Driver

  • All Manners of Food: Eating and Taste in England and France from the Middle Ages to the Present by Stephen Mennell
  • Curye on Inglysch: English Culinary Manuscripts of the 14th Century including ‘The Forme of Cury’ edited by Constance Hieatt and Sharon Butler
  • The English Cookbook by Victor Gordon

• Carolyn Steedman

  • The Hungry Self: Women, Eating and Identity by Kim Chernin
  • Hunger Strike by Susie Orbach
  • Holy Anorexia by Rudolph Bell

• Malise Ruthven

  • Gertrude Bell by Susan Goodman
  • Freya Stark by Caroline Moorehead

• Chauncey Loomis

  • Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape by Barry Lopez

• Ian Jack

  • A North Sea Journey by A. Alvarez

• Stuart Hampshire

  • The Time of My Life: An Autobiography by W.V. Quine

• Lucy Anne Watt
  Poem: ‘In the Lavatories’

• John Bayley

  • The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud. Vol. II: The Tender Passion by Peter Gay

• Richard Altick

  • The Common Writer: Life in 19th-century Grub Street by Nigel Cross

• Brian Harrison

  • The Industrial Reformation of English Fiction: Social Discourse and Narrative Form 1832-1867 by Catherine Gallagher
  • Victorian Prison Lives: English Prison Biography 1830-1914 by Philip Priestley
  • The Old Brown Dog: Women, Workers and Vivisection in Edwardian England by Coral Lansbury
  • ‘Orator’ Hunt: Henry Hunt and English Working-Class Radicalism by John Belchem

• John Sutherland

  • The Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden and Carlos Fuentes
  • Where the air is clear by Carlos Fuentes, translated by Sam Hileman
  • Farewell to the Sea by Reinaldo Arenas, translated by Andrew Hurley
  • Digging up the mountains by Neil Bissoondath

• Ian Davidson

  • Gorbachev: The Path to Power by Christian Schmidt-Häuer
  • Gorbachev by Zhores Medvedev
  • The Soviet Union: The Incomplete Super-Power by Paul Dibb

• John Yandell
  Diary

• Ted Hughes
  Poem: ‘Climbing into Heptonstall’