Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Alan Bennett
• Clarence Brown
• Kwame Dawes
• Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
• Christopher Hitchens
• Linda Holt
• R.W. Johnson
• Ross McKibbin
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Alan Ryan
• Tony Tanner
• E.S. Turner
• Janette Turner Hospital
• Marina Warner

Contents

• Ross McKibbin
  Why did they do it, and what should they do next?

• Letters
  John Bayley, C.G. Gross, Aidan Foster-Carter, Anna Bramwell, Gianfranco Corsini, Boris Ford, Peter Wollen, Andrew Samuels, Alan Wall, Mike Kearney, Carol Rumens, Frederick Bradnum, Garth Luetkemeier

• Alan Bennett
  Alan Bennett remembers Peter Cook

• R.W. Johnson

  • Foccart Parle: Entretiens avec Philippe Gaillard

• Linda Holt

  • The Model Occupation: The Channel Islands under German Rule 1940-1945 by Madeleine Bunting
  • The Channel Islands: Occupation and Liberation 1940-1945 by Asa Briggs

• Kwame Dawes
  Two Poems

• Christopher Hitchens
  Look over your shoulder

• Alan Ryan

  • The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy by Christopher Lasch

• Tony Tanner

  • Emerson: The Mind on Fire by Robert Richardson

• Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

  • The First Woman of the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child by Carolyn Karcher
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life by Joan Hedrick

• Andrew O’Hagan
  Thin Ayrshire

• E.S. Turner

  • The Diary of Samuel Pepys. Eleven Volumes, including Companion and Index edited by R.C. Latham and W. Matthews

• Janette Turner Hospital

  • A River Town by Thomas Keneally

• Clarence Brown

  • The Akhmatova Journals. Vol. I: 1938-1941 by Lydia Chukovskaya, translated by Milena Michalski and Sylva Rubashova
  • Remembering Anna Akhmatova by Anatoly Nayman, translated by Wendy Rosslyn
  • Anna Akhmatova and Her Circle edited by Konstantin Polivanov, translated by Patricia Beriozkina
  • Anna Akhmatova: Poet and Prophet by Roberta Reeder
  • Women’s Works in Stalin’s Time: On Lidia Chukovskaia and Nadezhda Mandelstam by Beth Holmgren

• Marina Warner
  Diary