CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Neal Ascherson
• Angela Carter
• Rajnarayan Chandavarkar
• Raymond Fancher
• James Fox
• Jeremy Harding
• Christopher Hitchens
• Philip Horne
• Anthony Howard
• Danny Karlin
• John Lanchester
• Les Murray
• Charles Nicholl
• Nicholas Penny
• Martin Plaut
• Salman Rushdie

Contents

• Christopher Hitchens on the great question of the day

  • The Dialectic of Change by Boris Kagarlitsky, translated by Rick Simon

• Letters
  Robin Blackburn, Christopher Walker, Galen Strawson, Stuart Proffitt

• Neal Ascherson

  • The Uses of Adversity by Timothy Garton Ash

• Martin Plaut
  South Africa’s Left

• Salman Rushdie

  • Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye by Andrew Robinson

• Rajnarayan Chandavarkar

  • The British Conquest and Dominion of India by Penderel Moon
  • Raj by Gita Mehta
  • The Last Days of the Raj by Trevor Royle

• Angela Carter

  • Louise Brooks by Barry Paris

• Philip Horne

  • Emotion Pictures: Reflections on the Cinema by Wim Wenders, translated by Sean Whiteside and Michael Hofmann
  • Scorsese on Scorsese by Martin Scorsese, edited by David Thompson and Ian Christie

• Les Murray
  Two Poems

• Jeremy Harding

  • The View from the Ground by Martha Gellhorn
  • Towards Asmara by Thomas Keneally

• Anthony Howard

  • Alan Moorehead by Tom Pocock
  • Loyalties: A Son’s Memoir by Carl Bernstein
  • Downstart by Brian Inglis

• John Lanchester

  • The Thirsty Muse: Alcohol and the American Writer by Tom Dardis

• Danny Karlin

  • The Wimbledon Poisoner by Nigel Williams
  • The Other Occupant by Peter Benson
  • Possession by A.S. Byatt

• Charles Nicholl

  • Dr Faustus by Christopher Marlowe, edited by Roma Gill
  • Renaissance Magic and the Return of the Golden Age: The Occult Tradition and Marlowe, Jonson and Shakespeare by John Mebane
  • Robert Fludd and the End of the Renaissance by William Huffman
  • Prophecy and Power: Astrology in Early Modern England by Patrick Curry

• Raymond Fancher

  • Faces of Degeneration: A European Disorder, c.1848-c.1918 by Daniel Pick
  • Health, Race and German Politics between National Unification and Nazism 1870-1945 by Paul Weindling

• James Fox
  Diary

• Nicholas Penny

  • The Image of the Black in Western Art. Vol. IV, Parts I-II: From the American Revolution to World War One by Hugh Honour
  • Primitive Art in Civilised Places by Sally Price
  • The Return of Cultural Treasures by Jeanette Greenfield