Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Walter Benjamin
• Clarence Brown
• Jonathan Coe
• Stefan Collini
• Paul Driver
• Ian Hamilton
• Rosemary Hill
• Michael Howard
• Jeffrey Mehlman
• James Miller
• Tom Nairn
• Taslima Nasreen
• Elaine Showalter
• John Sturrock
• Adam Thorpe
• Peter Wollen
• Carolyne Wright

Contents

• James Miller

  • A Pitch of Philosophy: Autobiographical Exercises by Stanley Cavell

• Letters
  Robert Giroux, Christopher Hitchens, R.W. Johnson, Terry Kelly, Mary-Kay Wilmers, David Wootton, J.M.C. Burton, Bernard Bergonzi, Bernard McCabe, Freddy Hurdis-Jones, Christopher Howse, C.J. Burrow, Keith Flett

• John Sturrock

  • Le Premier homme by Albert Camus

• Tom Nairn

  • The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination, 1969-1994 by Edward Said
  • Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures by Edward Said

• Michael Howard

  • The Wages of Guilt by Ian Buruma

• Adam Thorpe
  Poem: ‘Twitchers’

• Peter Wollen

  • Early Modernism: Literature, Music and Painting in Europe 1900-1916 by Christopher Butler

• Ian Hamilton

  • Juvenilia: Poems 1922-28 by W.H. Auden, edited by Katherine Bucknell

• Clarence Brown

  • Marina Tsvetaeva: Poetics of Appropriation by Michael Makin
  • Tsvetaeva by Viktoria Schweitzer, translated by Robert Chandler, H.T. Willetts and Peter Norman

• Paul Driver

  • The Bartók Companion edited by Malcolm Gillies

• Walter Benjamin translated by Jeffrey Mehlman
  Stamp Scams

• Jonathan Coe

  • The Life and Death of Peter Sellers by Roger Lewis

• Elaine Showalter

  • Hardy by Martin Seymour-Smith

• Rosemary Hill

  • Pugin: A Gothic Passion edited by Paul Atterbury and Clive Wainwright

• Carolyne Wright
  Diary

• Taslima Nasreen
  Poem: ‘Divorce Letter’

• Stefan Collini

  • Townscape with Figures: Farnham, Portrait of an English Town by Richard Hoggart