Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• M.F. Burnyeat
• Peter Campbell
• Barbara Everett
• James Francken
• Robert Irwin
• Kathleen Jamie
• Helen King
• August Kleinzahler
• Ross McKibbin
• Benjamin Markovits
• James Meek
• Ferdinand Mount
• Michael Peel
• David Reynolds
• Ingrid Rowland
• Art Spiegelman
• John Sturrock
• Stanley Uys

Contents

• Ross McKibbin
  How to put the politics back into Labour: Origins of the Present Mess

• Letters
  Marilyn Bowering, David Rose, Brian Towers, Anthony Summers, Wilhelm Schmid, Michael McManus, Jill Kitson, Brian Winston, Edward Hooper, Martin Staniforth, Charles Glass

• August Kleinzahler
  Poem: ‘The Bus Barn at Night’

• Barbara Everett

  • Coleridge’s Notebooks: A Selection edited by Seamus Perry
  • The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Vol. XVI: Poetical Works I: Poems (Reading Text) edited by J.C.C. Mays
  • The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Vol. XVI: Poetical Works II: Poems (Variorum Text) edited by J.C.C. Mays
  • The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Vol. XVI: Poetical Works III: Plays edited by J.C.C. Mays

• Ferdinand Mount

  • Siegfried Sassoon: The Making of a War Poet 1886-1918 by Jean Moorcroft Wilson
  • Siegfried Sassoon: The Journey from the Trenches 1918-67 by Jean Moorcroft Wilson
  • Sassoon: The Worlds of Philip and Sybil by Peter Stansky

• David Reynolds

  • Churchill by John Keegan
  • Man of the Century: Winston Churchill and His Legend since 1945 by John Ramsden
  • Clementine Churchill: The Revised and Updated Biography by Mary Soames
  • Churchill at War 1940-45 by Lord Moran
  • Churchill’s Cold War: The Politics of Personal Diplomacy by Klaus Larres

• Helen King

  • Spartan Women by Sarah Pomeroy

• John Sturrock
  Short Cuts: Spun and Unspun

• Ingrid Rowland

  • April Blood: Florence and the Plot against the Medici by Lauro Martines

• Art Spiegelman
  ‘In the Shadow of No Towers’, episode 9: the comic continues

• M.F. Burnyeat

  • The Play of Character in Plato's Dialogues by Ruby Blondell

• Michael Peel
  Small America: a report from Liberia

• Stanley Uys
  Bush’s Bag: The President’s African Safari

• Robert Irwin

  • The Koran translated by N.J. Dawood

• James Meek

  • The Hungry Gene: The Science of Fat and the Future of Thin by Ellen Ruppel Shell

• Peter Campbell
  At the British Museum: Medical Curiosities

• Benjamin Markovits

  • Child of My Heart by Alice McDermott

• James Francken

  • Finding Myself by Toby Litt

• Kathleen Jamie
  Diary: Gannets, Whaups, Skuas