Alan Watkins
When the literary editor asked me to participate in the same exercise last year, I forgot to mention one of the books I had most enjoyed: Patrick Devlin, Easing the Passing......
Paul Johnson
Two major contributions to modern his- tory during 1986 were Conor Cruise O'Brien's The Siege: the Saga of Israel and Zionism (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), and Martin Gilbert's Road......
David Sexton
William Empson was our last great poet- critic. He published no book in his last 25 years but we have now had three collec- tions of his matchless work since his death,......
John Jolliffe
Innocence (Collins) by Penelope Fitzgerald is the new book I have most enjoyed this year. I know of nobody who expresses so deftly and entertainingly, and without overdoing it,......
Christopher Howse
The great discovery of 1986 for me has been Aubrey's Brief Lives. I feel like Randolph Churchill, who on reading the Bible in extenso for the first time ex- claimed, 'Why didn't......
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