CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Dinah Birch
• Ian Buruma
• Jean-Pierre Chapelas
• Mark Ford
• Conor Gearty
• Misha Glenny
• Ian Hamilton
• Nicholas Hiley
• R.W. Johnson
• August Kleinzahler
• Andrew Motion
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Adam Phillips
• Christopher Prendergast
• Edward Said
• Robert Tashman
• Edmund White

Contents

• Ian Hamilton

  • Louis MacNeice: A Biography by Jon Stallworthy

• Letters
  

• Edmund White
  ‘Today the artist is a saint who writes his own life’

• Adam Phillips

  • Femininities, Masculinities, Sexualities: Freud and Beyond by Nancy Chodorow

• Dinah Birch

  • An Experiment in Love by Hilary Mantel

• R.W. Johnson

  • The State We’re In by Will Hutton

• Conor Gearty
  The Party in Government

• August Kleinzahler
  Poem: ‘Uttar Pradesh’

• Jean-Pierre Chapelas

  • Une Jeunesse française: François Mitterrand 1934-1947 by Pierre Péan

• Andrew Motion
  Poem: ‘Goethe in the Park’

• Misha Glenny
  Here We Go Again

• Edward Said

  • Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991 by Eric Hobsbawm

• Nicholas Hiley

  • Renegades: Hitler’s Englishmen by Adrian Weale
  • In from the Cold: National Security and Parliamentary Democracy by Laurence Lustgarten and Ian Leigh

• Ian Buruma

  • The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe’s Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War by Lynn Nicholas

• Christopher Prendergast

  • Paris Interzone: Richard Wright, Lolita, Boris Vian and Others on the Left Bank 1946-1960 by James Campbell
  • Foreign Correspondent: Paris in the Sixties by Peter Lennon
  • The Good Ship Venus: The Erotic Voyage of the Olympia Press by John de St Jorre

• Mark Ford

  • In Touch: The Letters of Paul Bowles edited by Jeffrey Miller

• Andrew O’Hagan
  Diary

• Robert Tashman

  • Prêt-à-Porter directed by Robert Altman