Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Charles Boyle
• Jane Campbell
• Jenny Diski
• Margaret Anne Doody
• Vicki Feaver
• Jerry Fodor
• John Gray
• Jeremy Harding
• Geoffrey Galt Harpham
• Christopher Hitchens
• Michael Hofmann
• Richard Horton
• Mark Lilla
• Keith Thomas
• Colm Tóibín
• David Wootton

Contents

• Michael Hofmann

  • Heart’s Journey in Winter by James Buchan

• Letters
  Richard Noll, Sonu Shamdasani, Paul Bishop, David Maclagan, Joan Coleman, Roger Sandell, Adrian Bowyer, Bernard Crick, Christopher Small, Marina Warner

• Charles Boyle
  Two Poems

• Keith Thomas

  • Theatres of Memory. Vol. I: Past and Present in Contemporary Culture by Raphael Samuel

• John Gray

  • The Fading of the Greens: The Decline of Environmental Politics in the West by Anna Bramwell
  • The Chicago Gangster Theory of Life: Nature’s Debt to Society by Andrew Ross
  • Green Delusions: An Environmentalist Critique of Radical Environmentalism by Martin Lewis

• Jerry Fodor

  • Mind and World by John McDowell

• Geoffrey Galt Harpham

  • Subjective Agency: A Theory of First-Person Expressivity and its Social Implications by Charles Altieri

• David Wootton

  • The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes: Vols I-II edited by Thomas Hobbes and Noel Malcolm

• Vicki Feaver
  Poem: ‘The Red Cupboard’

• Mark Lilla

  • German Ideology: From France to Germany and Back by Louis Dumont

• Jeremy Harding

  • François Villon: Complete Poems edited by Barbara Sargent-Bauer
  • Basil Bunting: Complete Poems edited by Richard Caddel

• Colm Tóibín

  • Shelf Life: Essays, Memoirs and an Interview by Thom Gunn

• Margaret Anne Doody

  • No Gifts from Chance: A Biography of Edith Wharton by Shari Benstock
  • Edith Wharton: An Extraordinary Life by Eleanor Dwight

• Jenny Diski

  • Anaïs Nin by Deirdre Bair
  • Conversations with Anaïs Nin edited by Wendy Dubow

• Jane Campbell

  • The Death of Old Man Rice: A Story of Criminal Justice in America by Martin Friedland

• Christopher Hitchens
  Diary

• Richard Horton

  • Soundings by Abraham Verghese