Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Paul Addison
• Jonathan Coe
• Michael Foot
• Frank Kermode
• August Kleinzahler
• Bernard Knox
• Wayne Koestenbaum
• John Lloyd
• Julian Loose
• Bill Manhire
• Adam Mars-Jones
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Stephen Sedley
• Elisa Segrave
• Jenny Turner

Contents

• Wayne Koestenbaum

  • Enrico Caruso: My Father and My Family by Enrico Caruso and Andrew Farkas

• Letters
  Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Rafael Ruppin, Isobel Grundy, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Jean MacGibbon, Claude Rawson, Beverley Charles Rowe, Martin Taylor, Marc Haefele, John de St Jorre, Alan Heuser

• Frank Kermode

  • John Gay: A Profession of Friendship. A Critical Biography by David Nokes

• August Kleinzahler
  Poem: ‘On First Looking into Joseph Cornell’s Diaries’

• Julian Loose

  • The Information by Martin Amis

• Jenny Turner

  • High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

• Stephen Sedley
  Rights, Wrongs and Outcomes

• Michael Foot

  • Moral Desperado: A Life of Thomas Carlyle by Simon Heffer

• Paul Addison

  • True Blues: The Politics of Conservative Party Membership by Paul Whiteley, Patrick Seyd and Jeremy Richardson
  • Frustrate Their Knavish Tricks: Writings on Biography, History and Politics by Ben Pimlott

• Andrew O’Hagan
  Glaswegians

• Bill Manhire
  Poem: ‘Moonlight’

• Jonathan Coe

  • The Riders by Tim Winton

• Adam Mars-Jones

  • Brownout on Breadfruit Boulevard by Timothy Mo

• Bernard Knox

  • The Husbands: An Account of Books III and IV of Homer’s ‘Iliad’ by Christopher Logue

• John Lloyd

  • Comrade Criminal: The Theft of the Second Russian Revolution by Stephen Handelman
  • Crime Without Frontiers: The Worldwide Expansion of Organised Crime and the Pax Mafiosa by Clare Sterling
  • Inside Yeltsin’s Russia by John Kampfner
  • A Dishonoured Society by John Follain

• Elisa Segrave
  Diary