CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• David Bromwich
• Thomas Crump
• Denis Donoghue
• Felipe Fernández-Armesto
• Jerry Fodor
• Giles Gordon
• Ian Hamilton
• Michael Hofmann
• Brad Leithauser
• Colin MacCabe
• Lorna Sage
• Robert Tombs
• Marina Warner
• Richard Wollheim
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Lorna Sage
  The Old Devil and his wife

• Letters
  E.E. Duncan-Jones, , Ronan Bennett, James MacGibbon, George Tintor, Howard Kahane, Mervyn Jones, John Lee, Vincent Brome, Tony Tanner, Nicholas Pearson

• Brad Leithauser
  Poem: ‘Another Dream’

• Marina Warner

  • Elizabeth’s Glass by Marc Shell

• Felipe Fernández-Armesto

  • Isabel the Queen: Life and Times by Peggy Liss

• Robert Tombs

  • Maximilian and Juárez by Jasper Ridley
  • Maximilian’s Lieutenant: A Personal History of the Mexican Campaign, 1864-7 by Ernst Pitner, translated and edited by Gordon Etherington-Smith

• Michael Wood

  • Paris and the 19th Century by Christopher Prendergast

• Richard Wollheim

  • Love of Beginnings by J.-B. Pontalis, translated by James Greene and Marie-Christine Régius

• Jerry Fodor

  • A Study of Concepts by Christopher Peacocke

• Denis Donoghue

  • Beckett’s Dying Words by Christopher Ricks

• Thomas Crump

  • Liquid Life: Abortion and Buddhism in Japan by William LaFleur

• Michael Hofmann

  • Stand before Your God: Growing up to Be a Writer by Paul Watkins

• Ian Hamilton

  • Up at Oxford by Ved Mehta

• Colin MacCabe

  • My Idea of Fun by Will Self

• Giles Gordon
  Diary

• David Bromwich

  • Romanticism and Contemporary Criticism: The Gauss Seminars and Other Papers by Paul de Man, edited by E.S. Burt, Kevin Newmark and Andrzej Warminski
  • Serenity in Crisis: A Preface to Paul de Man 1939-1960 by Ortwin de Graef