Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Allen Curnow
• Terry Eagleton
• Michael Hofmann
• Robert Irwin
• Tom Jaine
• Fredric Jameson
• John Lloyd
• Steven Rose
• Edward Said
• David Solkin
• Anne Stevenson
• John Sturrock
• Stuart Sutherland
• James Wood
• Michael Wood
• Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Contents

• Edward Said

  • The Sixties: The Last Journal, 1960-1972 by Edmund Wilson, edited by Lewis Dabney

• Letters
  Gerry Dukes, James MacGibbon, Mark Prosser, Russell Marshall, John Philip, Noel Malcolm, Terence Hegarty, Elizabeth Greene, Edward Wilson, Keith Flett

• Michael Hofmann

  • Walking Possession: Essays and Reviews 1968-1993 by Ian Hamilton
  • Gazza Italia by Ian Hamilton

• Michael Wood

  • The Cryptogram by David Mamet
  • A Whore’s Profession: Notes and Essays by David Mamet

• Terry Eagleton

  • The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats. Vol. III: 1901-1904 edited by John Kelly and Ronald Schuchard
  • Modern Irish Literature: Sources and Founders by Vivian Mercier

• James Wood

  • Art & Lies by Jeanette Winterson

• Ruth Bernard Yeazell

  • Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life by Lyndall Gordon
  • Shared Lives by Lyndall Gordon
  • The Sickroom in Victorian Fiction: The Art of Being Ill by Miriam Bailin

• Allen Curnow
  Poem: ‘A South Island Night’s Entertainment’

• Fredric Jameson

  • Past Imperfect: French Intellectuals, 1944-1956 by Tony Judt
  • Arguing Revolution: The Intellectual Left in Post-War France by Sunil Khilnani

• John Sturrock

  • Balzac by Graham Robb
  • Honoré de Balzac by Roger Pierrot
  • César Birotteau by Honoré de Balzac, translated by Robin Buss

• David Solkin

  • Nineteenth-Century Art: A Critical History by Stephen Eisenman, Thomas Crow, Brian Lukacher, Linda Nochlin and Frances Pohl

• John Lloyd

  • The View from the Kremlin by Boris Yeltsin, translated by Catharine Fitzpatrick

• Stuart Sutherland

  • Listening to Prozac by Peter Kramer

• Tom Jaine

  • The Alchemy of Culture: Intoxicants in Society by Richard Rudgley

• Robert Irwin
  Diary

• Steven Rose

  • The Astounding Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul by Francis Crick

• Anne Stevenson
  Poem: ‘Alas’