Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Robert Alter
• Patricia Beer
• Alan Bennett
• Jonathan Coe
• Basil Davidson
• R.B. Dobson
• Penelope Fitzgerald
• P.N. Furbank
• Misha Glenny
• Christopher Hitchens
• Frank Kermode
• James Lasdun
• John Lloyd
• Ross McKibbin
• J.G.A. Pocock
• Richard Rorty
• G.R. Searle
• Tom Shippey
• Nicholas Spice
• Patrick Wormald

Contents

• Richard Rorty

  • Moral Prejudices: Essays on Ethics by Annette Baier

• Letters
  Arthur Johnston, Edward Wilson, Hilary Putnam, John Sutherland, Susan Fellows, C.J. Bailey, James MacGibbon, Andy Wilson, Elaine Morgan, Henry Gee, Brian Vickers, Lalage Saunders, Gordon Bowker, Michael Wood

• G.R. Searle

  • The Rise and Fall of Liberal Government in Victorian Britain by Jonathan Parry

• James Lasdun
  Poem: ‘Oxblood’

• J.G.A. Pocock

  • The Great Melody: A Thematic Biography and Commented Anthology of Edmund Burke by Conor Cruise O’Brien

• Basil Davidson

  • Unhappy Valley by Bruce Berman and John Lonsdale
  • Mau Mau and Kenya: An Analysis of a Peasant Revolt by Wunyabari Maloba

• Misha Glenny

  • In Europe’s Name by Timothy Garton Ash

• John Lloyd

  • The Fate of Marxism in Russia by Alexander Yakovlev, translated by Catherine Fitzpatrick
  • Politics and Society in Russia by Richard Sakwa

• Ross McKibbin

  • For the Sake of Argument by Christopher Hitchens

• Penelope Fitzgerald

  • The Mountain of Immoderate Desires by Leslie Wilson

• Nicholas Spice

  • Fima by Amos Oz

• Tom Shippey

  • The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Malory by P.J.C. Field

• Patrick Wormald

  • The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonisation and Cultural Change 950-1350 by Robert Bartlett

• Patricia Beer
  Two Poems

• R.B. Dobson

  • The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1386-1421 edited by J.S. Roskell, Linda Clark and Carole Rawcliffe

• P.N. Furbank

  • The Psychology of Social Class by Michael Argyle

• Alan Bennett
  ‘The Stringalongs’

• Frank Kermode

  • The Collected and Recollected Marc edited by Mark Amory

• Jonathan Coe

  • The Kenneth Williams Diaries edited by Russell Davies

• Christopher Hitchens
  Diary

• Robert Alter

  • A History of the Hebrew Language by Angel Sáenz-Badillos, translated by John Elwolde
  • Language in Time of Revolution by Benjamin Harshav