Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Perry Anderson
• Jonathan Bate
• John Bayley
• M.F. Burnyeat
• Robert Crawford
• Paul Foot
• Anthony Grafton
• Christopher Hitchens
• Christopher Kelly
• Frank Kermode
• Mary Lefkowitz
• Alastair Logan
• Julian Loose
• Ronald Paulson
• John Robertson
• Lorna Sage
• Jon Silkin
• Nicholas Spice
• Ian Stewart
• Stuart Sutherland
• J.B. Trapp
• Jeremy Waldron
• Edmund White
• Stephen Wilson
• Blair Worden

Contents

• Edmund White

  • To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life: A Novel by Hervé Guibert, translated by Linda Coverdale
  • The Man in the Red Hat by Hervé Guibert, translated by James Kirkup
  • The Compassion Protocol by Hervé Guibert, translated by James Kirkup

• Letters
  Victoria Richardson, Jonathan Harris, Colin Gardner, Robert Ostermann, Judith Barbour, Richard Rorty, Ian Jacobs, Leonard Ashley, Noble Frankland, Keith Flett, Michael Cotsell

• John Bayley

  • Dr Johnson & Mr Savage by Richard Holmes
  • Samuel Johnson by Pat Rogers

• Jon Silkin
  Poem: ‘The Fathers’

• Alastair Logan
  A sewer runs through it

• Paul Foot

  • Ambushed: My Story by Judith Ward

• Perry Anderson

  • Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change, Political Conflict and London’s Overseas Traders 1550-1653 by Robert Brenner
  • The Nature of the English Revolution by John Morrill

• Blair Worden

  • Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain edited by Nicholas Phillipson and Quentin Skinner

• John Robertson

  • G.B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern by Mark Lilla
  • The Rehabilitation of Myth: Vico’s ‘New Science’ by Joseph Mali

• Jonathan Bate

  • Forests: The shadow of Civilisation by Robert Pogue Harrison

• Jeremy Waldron

  • Beyond the New Right: Markets, Government and the Common Environment by John Gray

• Frank Kermode

  • Shear by Tim Parks

• Stephen Wilson
  Poem: ‘Restoration’

• Nicholas Spice

  • The Green Knight by Iris Murdoch

• Lorna Sage
  Grandma at home

• M.F. Burnyeat

  • Testimony: A Philosophical Study by C.A.J. Coady

• J.B. Trapp

  • Erasmus: His Life, Work and Influence by Cornelis Augustijn, translated by J.C. Grayson
  • Erasmus: A Critical Biography by Léon-E. Halkin, translated by John Tonkin
  • Erasmus, Man of Letters: The Construction of Charisma in Print by Lisa Jardine

• Anthony Grafton

  • A History of Cambridge University Press. Vol. I: Printing and the Book Trade in Cambridge, 1534-1698 by David McKitterick

• Robert Crawford
  Poem: ‘Conditions of Employment’

• Christopher Kelly

  • Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity: Towards a Christian Empire by Peter Brown

• Mary Lefkowitz

  • In and Out of the Mind: Images of the Tragic Self by Ruth Padel
  • The Age of Grace: Charis in Early Greek Poetry by Bonnie MacLachlan

• Stuart Sutherland

  • The Making of Memory: From Molecules to Mind by Steven Rose

• Ian Stewart

  • The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier by Bruce Sterling
  • The New Hacker’s Dictionary edited by Eric Raymond
  • Approaching Zero: Data Crime and the Computer Underworld by Bryan Clough and Paul Mungo

• Julian Loose

  • Virtual Light by William Gibson
  • Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Post-Modern Science Fiction by Scott Bukatman

• Christopher Hitchens
  Diary

• Ronald Paulson

  • Painting for Money: The Visual Arts and the Public Sphere in 18th-Century England by David Solkin