Cover: Kazimir Malevich

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Perry Anderson
• John Bayley
• Patricia Beer
• Peter Campbell
• Paul Driver
• Gavin Ewart
• Orlando Figes
• Frank Kermode
• Keith Kyle
• Walter Laqueur
• Sean Maguire
• Michael Neve
• Roger Penrose
• M.F. Perutz
• J.P. Stern
• John Sutherland

Contents

• M.F. Perutz

  • Genome by Jerry Bishop and Michael Waldholz

• Letters
  Wesley Wark, John Lanchester, James Hoyle, Julian Symons, Janet Gezari, Roy MacGregor-Hastie

• Perry Anderson reflects on his experience of the Moscow coup, and of its failure, and considers Gorbachev’s failure and success

• Orlando Figes

  • The Russian City between Tradition and Modernity, 1850-1900 by Daniel Brower
  • St Petersburg between the Revolutions. Workers and Revolutionaries: June 1907-February 1917 by Robert McKean

• Keith Kyle

  • From the House of War by John Simpson
  • In the Eye of the Storm by Roger Cohen and Claudio Gatti

• John Sutherland

  • Rude Words: A Discursive History of the London Library by John Wells
  • Swearing: A Social History of Foul Language, Oaths and Profanity in English by Geoffrey Hughes

• Gavin Ewart
  Two Thomas Hardy Poems

• John Bayley

  • Joseph Conrad: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers
  • Joseph Conrad and the Modern Temper by Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan

• Frank Kermode

  • Bernard Shaw. Vol. III: 1918-1950, The Lure of Fantasy by Michael Holroyd

• Patricia Beer

  • Diaries by Antonia White, edited by Susan Chitty

• Michael Neve

  • The Faber Book of Madness edited by Roy Porter

• Peter Campbell

  • Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition by Ed Regis

• Roger Penrose

  • The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell edited by P.M. Harman

• Paul Driver

  • Gabriel Fauré: A Musical Life by Jean-Michel Nectoux, translated by Roger Nichols
  • Pierre Boulez by Dominique Jameux, translated by Susan Bradshaw
  • Stocktakings from an Apprenticeship by Pierre Boulez, translated by Stephen Walsh

• Walter Laqueur

  • Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives by Alan Bullock
  • Stalin: Breaker of Nations by Robert Conquest

• Sean Maguire
  Vilnius Diary

• J.P. Stern

  • Georg Lukács: Life, Thought and Politics by Arpad Kadarkay