CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• James Campbell
• Alexander Cockburn
• Basil Davidson
• Alistair Elliot
• Nicholas Everett
• Penelope Fitzgerald
• Isabel Hilton
• Phillip Knightley
• John Lanchester
• John Lloyd
• William Plowden
• Stephen Sackur
• Paul Seabright
• Elaine Showalter
• John Sutherland

Contents

• John Lanchester

  • Serial Murder: An Elusive Phenomenon edited by Stephen Egger
  • Serial Killers by Joel Norris
  • Life after Life by Tony Parker
  • American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
  • Dirty Weekend by Helen Zahavi
  • Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

• Letters
  Alan Sinfield, Michael Rosen, A. Banerjee, Hopey Glass, John Lee, James Dickie, David Kynaston

• Elaine Showalter

  • The Haunting of Sylvia Plath by Jacqueline Rose
  • Passions of the Mind by A.S. Byatt

• Paul Seabright

  • Medical Choices, Medical Chances: How patients, families and physicians can cope with uncertainty by Harold Bursztajn, Richard Feinbloom, Robert Hamm and Archie Brodsky
  • Examining doctors: Medicine in the 1900s by Donald Gould
  • Some Lives! A GP’s East End by David Widgery

• Alistair Elliot
  Three Poems

• William Plowden

  • American Social Welfare Policy: A Structural Approach by Howard Karger and David Stoesz
  • America’s Misunderstood Welfare State by Theodore Marmor, Jerry Mashaw and Philip Harvey
  • The American Prospect edited by Paul Starr and Robert Kuttner

• Phillip Knightley

  • Cold Warrior. James Jesus Angleton: The CIA’s Master Spy Hunter by Tom Mangold

• Isabel Hilton

  • In Search of the Assassin by Susie Morgan

• John Lloyd

  • Moscow and Beyond: 1986-1989 by Andrei Sakharov
  • Fatal Half-Measures: The Allure of Democracy in the Soviet Union by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, edited and translated by Antonia Bovis

• Stephen Sackur
  In Occupied Territory

• Basil Davidson
  Dying Africa

• John Sutherland

  • The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present edited by Virginia Blain, Isobel Grundy and Patricia Clements
  • The Presence of the Present: Topics of the Day in the Victorian Novel by Richard Altick

• Penelope Fitzgerald

  • The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan

• James Campbell

  • The Intended by David Dabydeen
  • Cambridge by Caryl Phillips
  • Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid

• Alexander Cockburn
  Diary

• Nicholas Everett

  • Omeros by Derek Walcott
  • Collected Poems by Norman MacCaig
  • The Mail from Anywhere by Brad Leithauser
  • An Elegy for the Galosherman: New and Selected Poems by Matt Simpson