Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Burnside
• Peter Campbell
• Norma Clarke
• David Coward
• Robert Crawford
• Malcolm Deas
• Mark Ford
• Hal Foster
• Jeremy Harding
• Christopher Hitchens
• R.W. Johnson
• Thomas Jones
• John Lloyd
• Derek Mahon
• Catherine Merridale
• John Mullan
• Jack Rakove
• Murray Sayle
• Christopher Tayler
• Peter Wollen

Contents

• Murray Sayle
  Japan goes Dutch: Japan’s economic troubles

• Letters
  Ahmed Gul, David Moore, Roger Nobbs, Robin Cooper, Cal Winslow, Michael Richards, Richard Morris, Keith Flett

• Derek Mahon
  Poem: ‘New Wave’

• Christopher Hitchens

  • A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China by Patrick Tyler

• Peter Wollen

  • Gerhard Richter: ‘October 18, 1977’ edited by Robert Storr

• Hal Foster

  • Life Style by Bruce Mau

• R.W. Johnson

  • Servants of the People: The Inside Story of New Labour by Andrew Rawnsley
  • Mandelson and the Making of New Labour by Donald Macintyre
  • Mo Mowlam: The Biography by Julia Langdon
  • Ann Widdecombe: Right from the Beginning by Nicholas Kochan
  • The Paymaster: Geoffrey Robinson, Maxwell and New Labour by Tom Bower
  • The Future of Politics by Charles Kennedy

• John Lloyd

  • The British Brass Band: A Musical and Social History by Trevor Herbert

• Peter Campbell

  • Titian: The Complete Paintings by Filippo Pedrocco and Maria Agnese Chiari Moreto Weil

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Who’s the arts minister?

• Christopher Tayler

  • Emerald Germs of Ireland by Patrick McCabe

• David Coward

  • Molière: A Theatrical Life by Virginia Scott

• Norma Clarke

  • Jane Barker, Exile: A Literary Career 1675-1725 by Kathryn King

• John Mullan

  • Wordsworth: A Life by Juliet Barker
  • The Hidden Wordsworth by Kenneth Johnston
  • Disowned by Memory: Wordsworth’s Poetry of the 1790s by David Bromwich

• Robert Crawford

  • The Collected Works of James Hogg. Vol. VIII: The ‘Spy’ edited by Gillian Hughes

• Jeremy Harding
  At the Royal Academy: Botticelli

  • Botticelli's Dante

• Mark Ford

  • Live from the Hong Kong Nile Club: Poems 1975-90 by August Kleinzahler

• Jack Rakove

  • Becoming America: The Revolution Before 1776 by Jon Butler
  • Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans by Joyce Appleby

• John Burnside
  Poem: ‘Koi’

• Malcolm Deas
  Plan Colombia

• Catherine Merridale
  Diary