36 oversize pages in this 35-year-old number.  

See photo #2 for contents page. 

The cover features "Robert Capa's photograph of a woman and her son arriving at a reception camp near Haifa, soon after Ben Gurion proclaimed the creation of the state of Israel on May 14, 1948." There's an eight-page "Jewish Studies" feature in this issue. See photo #2. 

Bernard Wasserstein's essay in review of Norman A. Stillman's The Jews of Arab Lands in Modern Times. It opens with "Jews lived in most of what are now Arab lands long before the Arabs arrived." See photo #4. 

The able John Bayley, soon to retire from an extraordinary Oxford career, contributes an opening essay on the poetry of Yevgeny Yevtushenko.  

New verse from Sean O'Brien, Propaganda. Also, Peter Porter's In Rosewell. 

Linda Colley on Simon Schama's Dead Certainties (Unwarranted speculations). 

Craig Brown's "Very Special Ordinary People" (on 7 new works related to the life of Prince Philip as he reaches age 70). 

Smadar Lavie's "Arrival of the New Cultural Tenants: Soviet Immigrants to Israel and the Displacing of the Sephardi Jews."

Andreas Bjornerud's "Beckett's Subject," an item of some interest! 

Graham McCann's review of Maurice Leonard's Mae West: Empress of Sex.

Much more!