Cover: Atkinson Grimshaw

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Bayley
• Peter Campbell
• Philip Horne
• Douglas Johnson
• Victor Mallet
• Charles Nicholl
• Sean O’Brien
• Christopher Reid
• W.G. Runciman
• Edward Said
• E.P. Thompson
• Janet Todd
• Janet Watts
• Hugo Williams
• Michael Wood

Contents

• E.P. Thompson

  • Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical Years by Nicholas Roe

• Letters
  Gabriel Josipovici, Graham Martin, Montagu Bream, Valerie Smith, Kenneth Buthlay

• Charles Nicholl

  • Christopher Marlowe and Canterbury by William Urry, edited by Andrew Butcher
  • John Weever by E.A.J. Honigmann
  • Rare Sir William Davenant by Mary Edmond

• Hugo Williams
  Two Poems

• Edward Said
  Goodbye to Mahfouz

• Douglas Johnson

  • Notre Siècle: 1918-1988 by René Rémond
  • Histoire de la Vie Privée: De la Première Guerre Mondiale à nos Jours edited by Philippe Ariès and Georges Duby
  • France since the Popular Front: Government and People 1936-1986 by Maurice Larkin
  • France Today by John Ardagh

• Michael Wood

  • The Pink and the Green by Stendhal, translated by Richard Howard
  • Stendhal’s Violin: A Novelist and his Reader by Roger Pearson

• Janet Watts

  • Very Heaven: Looking back at the 1960s edited by Sara Maitland

• Janet Todd

  • The Cavalry Maiden: Journals of a Female Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars by Nadezhda Durova, translated by Mary Fleming Zirin
  • Isabelle: The Life of Isabelle Eberhardt by Annette Kobak
  • Vagabond by Isabelle Eberhardt, translated by Annette Kobak

• Christopher Reid

  • To Urania: Selected Poems 1965-1985 by Joseph Brodsky

• Philip Horne

  • A Chinese Summer by Mark Illis
  • Three Uneasy Pieces by Patrick White
  • The Captain and the Enemy by Graham Greene
  • View of Dawn in the Tropics by G. Cabrera Infante, translated by Suzanne Jill Levine
  • The House of Stairs by Barbara Vine

• Sean O’Brien
  Poem: ‘Before’

• Victor Mallet

  • Constructive Drinking: Perspectives on Drink from Anthropology edited by Mary Douglas
  • For Prayer and Profit: The Ritual, Economic and Social Importance of Beer in Gwembe District, Zambia, 1950-1982 by Elizabeth Colson and Thayer Scudder

• John Bayley

  • The Letters of Max Beerbohm 1892-1956 edited by Rupert Hart-Davis
  • The Faber Book of Letters edited by Felix Pryor

• W.G. Runciman
  Diary

• Peter Campbell

  • The World through Blunted Sight by Patrick Trevor-Roper
  • Visual Fact over Verbal Fiction by Carl Goldstein
  • Hockney on Photography: Conversations with Paul Joyce
  • Portrait of David Hockney by Peter Webb