Contents


  • Edward Said

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

  • 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’