Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Bayley
• Betsy Blair
• Denis Donoghue
• Conor Gearty
• David Harsent
• Christopher Hitchens
• Alex Ivanovitch
• Thomas Laqueur
• Zachary Leader
• Richard Poirier
• Sarah Rigby
• David Runciman
• W.G. Runciman
• Tom Shippey
• E.S. Turner

Contents

• Thomas Laqueur

  • Heshel's Kingdom by Dan Jacobson
  • Shtetl: The History of a Small Town and an Extinguished World by Eva Hoffman

• Letters
  Jeremy Bernstein, Maud Sulter, Trevor Fawcett, James Wood, Harvey Plant, David Andrew, David Tully

• David Runciman

  • Artist Unknown: An Alternative History of the Arts Council by Richard Witts
  • In Praise of Commercial Culture by Tyler Cowen

• Conor Gearty

  • This Time: Our Constitutional Revolution by Anthony Barnett
  • The Voice of the People: A Constitution for Tomorrow by Robert Alexander
  • The Making and Remaking of the British Constitution by Lord Nolan and Stephen Sedley

• Christopher Hitchens

  • 1968: Marching in the Streets by Tariq Ali and Susan Watkins
  • The Beginning of the End: France, May 1968 by Angelo Quattrocchi and Tom Nairn
  • The Love Germ by Jill Neville

• Zachary Leader

  • Previous Convictions: A Journey Through the Fifties by Nora Sayre

• Betsy Blair
  Looking for Mrs Kelly: Files on the Fifties

• Richard Poirier

  • With Walt Whitman in Camden. Vol. VIII: 11 February 1891-30 September 1891 by Horace Traubel, edited by Jeanne Chapman and Robert MacIsaac
  • With Walt Whitman in Camden. Vol. IX: 11 February 1891-30 September 1891 by Horace Traubel, edited by Jeanne Chapman and Robert MacIsaac

• Denis Donoghue

  • The Penguin Book of Victorian Verse edited by Daniel Karlin

• John Bayley

  • The Irish Guards in the Great War: The First Battalion by Rudyard Kipling
  • The Irish Guards in the Great War: The Second Battalion by Rudyard Kipling

• Sarah Rigby

  • Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge

• Alex Ivanovitch

  • Armadillo by William Boyd
  • Nat Tate: American Artist, 1928-60 by William Boyd

• Tom Shippey

  • The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain, Vol. I, 660-1649 by N.A.M. Rodger
  • Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe by Bert Hall

• David Harsent
  Poem: ‘By Sennen’

• W.G. Runciman
  Diary

• E.S. Turner

  • British Spas from 1815 to the Present Day: A Social History by Phyllis Hembry and Leonard Cowie