Cover: David King

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Gabriele Annan
• Neal Ascherson
• Dinah Birch
• Peter Clarke
• A. Craig Copetas
• Graham Coster
• Frank Kermode
• John Lloyd
• Julian Loose
• Hilary Mantel
• Richard Mayne
• George Melly
• Andrew Motion
• Avi Shlaim
• Janet Adam Smith
• John Sturrock
• John Tranter
• Nicolas Tredell
• Blair Worden

Contents

• John Sturrock

  • Selected Letters: Vol. III, 1910-1917 by Marcel Proust, edited by Philip Kolb, translated by Terence Kilmartin
  • Correspondance de Marcel Proust: Tome XVIII, 191 edited by Philip Kolb
  • Correspondance de Marcel Proust: Tome XIX, 1920 edited by Philip Kolb
  • Correspondance de Marcel Proust: Tome XX, 1921 edited by Philip Kolb

• Letters
  Alfred Brendel, Norman Potter, Laura Quinney, Bernard Harrison, Mark Turner, Hyam Maccoby, E.J. Mishan

• George Melly

  • Magritte by David Sylvester
  • Magritte by Sarah Whitfield

• Richard Mayne

  • The Conquerors by André Malraux, translated by Stephen Becker
  • The Temptation of the West by André Malraux, translated by Robert Hollander
  • The Walnut Tree of Altenburg by André Malraux, translated by A.W. Fielding

• Neal Ascherson

  • My Life in Politics by Willy Brandt

• Avi Shlaim

  • The Road Not Taken: Early Arab-Israeli Negotiations by Itamar Rabinovich

• Peter Clarke

  • The Macmillans: The Story of a Dynasty by Richard Davenport-Hines

• Hilary Mantel

  • The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe by Charles Nicholl

• Blair Worden

  • Sir Philip Sidney: Courtier Poet by Katherine Duncan-Jones
  • Algernon Sidney and the Restoration Crisis by Jonathan Scott
  • Algernon Sidney and the Republican Heritage by Alan Craig Houston
  • Milton’s ‘History of Britain’: Republican Historiography in the English Revolution by Nicholas von Maltzahn

• Julian Loose

  • Crystal Rooms by Melvyn Bragg

• Frank Kermode

  • In the Eye of the Sun by Ahdaf Soueif

• Graham Coster

  • Black Dogs by Ian McEwan

• A. Craig Copetas
  Yaaaggghhhh

• Nicolas Tredell

  • Kid by Simon Armitage
  • Feast Days by John Burnside
  • An African Elegy by Ben Okri
  • Memorabilia by Colin Falck
  • Serious Concerns by Wendy Cope

• John Tranter
  Poem: ‘Journey’

• Dinah Birch

  • Dignity and Decadence: Victorian Art and the Classical Inheritance by Richard Jenkyns

• Andrew Motion
  Poem: ‘From ‘The Price of Everything’’

• John Lloyd
  Diary

• Janet Adam Smith

  • The Grand Tours of Katherine Wilmot: France 1801-3 and Russia 1805-7 edited by Elizabeth Mavor

• Gabriele Annan

  • From the Ballroom to Hell: Grace and Folly in 19th-Century Dance by Elizabeth Aldrich