Cover: Jez Coulson

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Michael Brock
• Alistair Elliot
• Stephen Fender
• Robert Fisk
• David Gilmour
• Tony Gould
• Jose Harris
• V.G. Kiernan
• Peter McDonald
• Mark Mazower
• Edward Mendelson
• W.G. Runciman
• George Steiner
• Anthony Thwaite
• David Trotter

Contents

• Robert Fisk

  • The Yellow Wind by David Grossman, translated by Haim Watzman

• Letters
  Michael Fitzpatrick, Alan Brien, Bruno Nightingale, Karl Miller, Daniel Waissbein, Maurice Hatton, Tim Barnard, D.L. Ouren, Editors, ‘London Review’, Fraser Mitchell, Peter Faulkner, Hilda Snowden, Hugh Thomas, Andrew Milne, Nicolas Walter

• David Gilmour

  • The Birth of Israel: Myths and Realities by Simha Flapan
  • Collusion across the Jordan: King Abdullah, the Zionist Movement and the Partition of Palestine by Avi Shlaim
  • The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949 by Benny Morris

• Mark Mazower
  Waldheim goes to war

• Jose Harris

  • The Health Services since the War. Vol. I: Problems of Health Care: The National Health Service before 1957 by Charles Webster

• Tony Gould

  • When the fighting is over: A Personal Story of the Battle for Tumbledown Mountain and its Aftermath by John Lawrence and Robert Lawrence
  • Tumbledown by Charles Wood

• David Trotter

  • The Government of the Tongue: The 1986 T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures, and Other Critical Writings by Seamus Heaney

• Edward Mendelson

  • History and Value: The Clarendon Lectures and the Northcliffe Lectures 1987 by Frank Kermode
  • Nya by Stephen Haggard and Frank Kermode
  • British Writers of the Thirties by Valentine Cunningham

• George Steiner

  • Wittgenstein. A Life: Young Ludwig 1889-1921 by Brian McGuinness

• V.G. Kiernan on the high price of poison

  • The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery 1776-1848 by Robin Blackburn
  • Pro-Slavery: A History of the Defence of Slavery in America, 1701-1840 by Larry Tise
  • Haiti’s Influence on Antebellum America: Slumbering Volcano in the Caribbean by Alfred Hunt
  • Thomas Paine by A.J. Ayer
  • Paine and Cobbett: The Transatlantic Connection by David Wilson

• Michael Brock

  • Corruption in British Politics, 1895-1930 by G.R. Searle

• Stephen Fender

  • Hemingway by Kenneth Lynn
  • The Faces of Hemingway: Intimate Portraits of Ernest Hemingway by those who knew him by Denis Brian

• W.G. Runciman
  Diary

• Alistair Elliot
  Poem: ‘One of our Submarines’

• Anthony Thwaite

  • The Silence in the Garden by William Trevor
  • Sea Music by David Profumo
  • Tell it me again by John Fuller
  • The Continuing Silence of a Poet: The Collected Short Stories of A.B. Yehoshua

• Peter McDonald

  • You must remember this by Joyce Carol Oates
  • A Case of Knives by Candia McWilliam
  • Burning your own by Glenn Patterson