CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• James Buchan
• James Davidson
• R.W. Davies
• Jenny Diski
• Terry Eagleton
• John Fine
• Anthony Grafton
• R.W. Johnson
• Frank Kermode
• Robin Robertson
• Lawrence Stone
• Anna Vaux
• Peter Wollen

Contents

• R.W. Johnson
  Here for the crunch

• Letters
  

• R.W. Davies

  • Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives edited by J. Arch Getty and Roberta Manning
  • Beria: Stalin’s First Lieutenant by Amy Knight
  • This I Cannot Forget: The Memoirs of Nikolai Bukharin’s Widow by Anna Larina
  • Stalin i Ordzhonikidze: Konflikty v Politbyuro v 30-e gody by O.V. Khlevnyuk

• John Fine

  • Bosnia: A Short History by Noel Malcolm

• Robin Robertson
  Poem: ‘The Flaying of Marsyas’

• James Buchan

  • The City of London. Vol. I: A World of Its Own, 1815-1890 by David Kynaston

• Terry Eagleton

  • What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe

• Anna Vaux

  • A Change of Climate by Hilary Mantel

• Frank Kermode

  • The Lure of the Sea by Alain Corbin, translated by Jocelyn Phelps
  • The Foul and the Fragrant: Odour and the French Social Imagination by Alain Corbin, translated by Miriam Kochan

• Anthony Grafton

  • The Civilisation of Europe in the Renaissance by John Hale

• Lawrence Stone

  • History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past by Francis Haskell

• Jenny Diski

  • Roald Dahl: A Biography by Jeremy Treglown

• Peter Wollen
  Diary

• James Davidson

  • Reflections of Nero: Culture, History and Representation edited by Jás Elsner and Jamie Masters