Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Svetlana Alpers
• Robert Crawford
• Wendy Doniger
• Patrice Higonnet
• R.W. Johnson
• Patrick O’Brian
• Jasper Rees
• Graham Robb
• Tom Shippey
• Nicholas Spice
• Colm Tóibín
• Janette Turner Hospital
• Mary-Kay Wilmers
• Jenny Wormald

Contents

• Wendy Doniger

  • Dearest Pet: On Bestiality by Midas Dekkers, translated by Paul Vincent

• Letters
  Amanda Craig, Dennis Wrong, Barry Mitchell, David Lewisohn, Damian Smyth, Sebastian Kraemer, Editor, Tristram Biggs, Edward Wilson, Nicholas Denyer

• Jasper Rees

  • Jim Henson – The Works: The Art, the Magic, the Imagination by Christopher Finch

• Colm Tóibín

  • One Art: The Selected Letters of Elizabeth Bishop edited by Robert Giroux

• Nicholas Spice

  • A Way in the World by V.S. Naipaul

• Janette Turner Hospital

  • Debatable Land by Candia McWilliam

• Patrick O’Brian

  • Mr Bligh’s Bad Language: Passion, Power and Theatre on the ‘Bounty’ by Greg Dening
  • Admiral Satan: The Life and Campaigns of Suffren by Roderick Cavaliero

• Robert Crawford
  Four Poems

• R.W. Johnson

  • Charles de Gaulle, Futurist of the Nation by Régis Debray, translated by John Howe
  • De Gaulle and 20th-Century France edited by Hugh Gough and John Horne
  • François Mitterrand: A Study in Political Leadership by Alistair Cole

• Patrice Higonnet

  • The Past in French History by Robert Gildea
  • La Gauche survivra-t-elle aux socialistes? by Jean-Marie Colombani

• Svetlana Alpers

  • Dawn of the Golden Age: Northern Netherlandish Art, 1580-1620 by Wouter Kloek, translated by Michael Hoyle

• Tom Shippey

  • Adolescence and Youth in Early Modern England by Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos

• Jenny Wormald

  • Elizabeth I by Wallance MacCaffrey

• Mary-Kay Wilmers
  Diary

• Graham Robb

  • God’s Plagiarist: Being an Account of the Fabulous Industry and Irregular Commerce of the Abbé Migne by R. Howard Bloch