Cover: Martin Meyer

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Julian Barnes
• Peter Burke
• Linda Colley
• Penelope Fitzgerald
• James Fox
• Selima Hill
• Danny Karlin
• Simon Karlinsky
• Frank Kermode
• Sarah Lawson
• Jane Miller
• Craig Raine
• Claude Rawson
• John Sutherland
• Guy Vanderhaeghe

Contents

• Craig Raine

  • More die of heartbreak by Saul Bellow

• Letters
  John Worthen, Nicolas Walter, Alan Brien, D.A.N. Jones, Ann Dummett, Paul Hirst, R.W. Johnson, Sarah Lefanu, Mark Hussey, C.A. Latimer, Editors, ‘London Review’

• Linda Colley

  • Women by Naim Attallah

• Jane Miller

  • Beloved by Toni Morrison

• Frank Kermode

  • For Love and Money: Writing, Reading, Travelling 1969-1987 by Jonathan Raban
  • Original Copy: Selected Reviews and Journalism 1969-1986 by John Carey

• James Fox

  • Trail of Havoc: In the Steps of Lord Lucan by Patrick Marnham
  • Lucan: Not Guilty by Sally Moore

• John Sutherland

  • The Foul and the Fragrant: Odour and the French Social Imagination by Alain Corbin, translated by Miriam Kochan
  • Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind, translated by John Woods
  • The Double Bass by Patrick Süskind, translated by Michael Hofmann

• Peter Burke

  • The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age by Simon Schama

• Claude Rawson

  • Samuel Richardson by Jocelyn Harris

• Selima Hill
  Poem: ‘Mother Stone’

• Sarah Lawson
  Poem: ‘‘Hamlet’’

• Penelope Fitzgerald

  • Rebecca West: A Life by Victoria Glendinning
  • Family Memories by Rebecca West and Faith Evans

• Danny Karlin

  • The Poems of Tennyson edited by Christopher Ricks
  • Tennyson’s ‘Maud’: A Definitive Edition edited by Susan Shatto
  • The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson. Vol.2: 1851-1870 edited by Cecil Lang and Edgar Shannon
  • The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse edited by Christopher Ricks

• Simon Karlinsky

  • A Captive Lion: The Life of Marina Tsvetayeva by Elaine Feinstein
  • The Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva translated by Elaine Feinstein

• Julian Barnes
  Diary

• Guy Vanderhaeghe
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