Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Gabriele Annan
• Paul Foot
• Jeremy Harding
• Michael Hofmann
• John Lloyd
• Adam Mars-Jones
• Patrick O’Brian
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Adam Phillips
• Lorna Sage
• Lorna Scott Fox
• John Sturrock
• Janette Turner Hospital
• Hugh Williams
• Hugo Williams
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Lorna Sage

  • Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World by Carol Brightman

• Letters
  David Pascoe, Phyllis Franklin, Catharine Stimpson, Christopher Small, Phil Edwards, Neil Hornick, Alfred Burke, Andrew Rutherford

• John Lloyd

  • Russia 2010 by Daniel Yergin and Thane Gustafson
  • What About the workers: Workers and the Transition to Capitalism in Russia by Simon Clarke
  • After the Soviet Union: From Empire to Nation edited by Timothy Colton and Robert Levgold

• Paul Foot

  • Spider’s Web: Bush, Saddam, Thatcher and the Decade of Deceit by Alan Friedman
  • The Unlikely Spy by Paul Henderson

• Michael Hofmann
  Three Poems

• Jeremy Harding

  • Martyr’s Day: Chornicle of small War by Michael Kelly
  • Battling for News: The Rise of the Woman Reporter by Anne Sebba
  • Women’s Letters in Wartime edited by Eva Figes
  • The War at Sixteen: Autobiography, Vol. II by Julien Green, translated by Euan Cameron

• Patrick O’Brian

  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: The Life and Death of the Little Prince by Paul Webster

• Adam Phillips

  • Being a Character: Psychoanalysis and Self-Experience by Christopher Bollas
  • Psychoanalysis and the Future of Theory by Malcolm Bowie

• Adam Mars-Jones

  • The Father by Sharon Olds
  • The Sign of Saturn by Sharon Olds

• Janette Turner Hospital

  • The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx

• Andrew O’Hagan

  • The Dogs by Laura Thompson

• Hugh Williams
  Two Poems

• Gabriele Annan

  • A Woman’s View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women 1930-60 by Jeanine Basinger

• Hugo Williams
  Three Poems

• Michael Wood

  • The Age of Innocence directed by Martin Scorsese
  • The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, introduced by Peter Washington

• Lorna Scott Fox
  Diary

• John Sturrock

  • Charles Sanders Peirce by Joseph Brent
  • The Esssential Peirce: Vol. I edited by Nathan Houser and Christian Koesel