Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Malcolm Bull
• Stanley Cavell
• Allen Curnow
• Malcolm Deas
• Michael Dummett
• Terry Eagleton
• Paul Foot
• Christopher Hitchens
• R.W. Johnson
• Mark Lilla
• Edwin Morgan
• Nicholas Spice
• David Sylvester
• Colm Tóibín
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Stanley Cavell

  • The Marx Brothers: ‘A Day at the Races’, ‘Monkey Business’ and ‘Duck Soup’ introduced by Karl French

• Letters
  Christopher Hitchens, Brian Vickers, Keith Flett, Brian Featherstone, Jeff Ewener, David Townsend, Geoffrey Barrow, Howard Kahane, Freddy Hurdis-Jones

• David Sylvester

  • Investigating Sex: Surrealist Research 1928-1932 edited by José Pierre, translated by Malcolm Imrie

• Paul Foot

  • Trail of the Octopus: From Beirut to Lockerbie – Inside the DIA by Donald Goddard and Lester Coleman
  • The Media and Disasters: Pan-Am 103 by Joan Deppa, Maria Russell, Dona Hayes and Elizabeth Lynne Flocke

• R.W. Johnson
  The Last Days of Bhambayi

• Edwin Morgan
  Poem: ‘Virtual and Other Realities – 19’

• Malcolm Deas
  Narco Nabobs

• Mark Lilla

  • The Magus of the North: J.G. Hamann and the Origins of Modern Irrationalism by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy

• Michael Dummett

  • Politics, Logic and Love: The Life of Jean van Heijenoort by Anita Burdman Feferman

• Michael Wood

  • Tina Modotti: A Fragile Life by Mildred Constantine
  • Tina Modotti: Photographer and Revolutionary by Margaret Hooks

• Christopher Hitchens

  • In the Heat of the Struggle: Twenty-Five Years of ‘Socialist Worker’ by Paul Foot
  • Why You Should Join the Socialists by Paul Foot

• Allen Curnow
  Poem: ‘Looking West, Late Afternoon, Low Water’

• Malcolm Bull

  • The Road to Wellville by T. Coraghessan Boyle
  • The Collected Stories by T. Coraghessan Boyle

• Terry Eagleton

  • Safe in the Kitchen by Aisling Foster

• Colm Tóibín
  Diary

• Nicholas Spice

  • Daring to Excel: The Story of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain by Ruth Railton