Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Amit Chaudhuri
• Michael Dobson
• Emily Gowers
• Ian Hamilton
• Jeremy Harding
• Frank Kermode
• Jamie McKendrick
• Bernard O’Donoghue
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Roy Porter
• John Ray
• Ed Regis
• Sarah Rigby
• Neil Rollinson
• Tom Shippey
• Iain Sinclair
• C.K. Stead
• John Sutherland
• David Sylvester
• Marina Warner
• Laurence Whitehead
• Bertram Wyatt-Brown

Contents

• Frank Kermode

  • Angus Wilson by Margaret Drabble

• Letters
  Gertraude Krueger, Ian Gilmour, Robert Fisk, Leslie Wilson, Sanford Gabin, August Kleinzahler, Robert Flint, W.S. Milne, Jeremy Harding

• Jeremy Harding
  The Red Card of Chaos

• Andrew O’Hagan
  Lost Boys

• Marina Warner

  • The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity 200-1336 by Caroline Walker Bynum

• Michael Dobson

  • Edmond Malone, Shakespearean Scholar: A Literary Biography by Peter Martin

• John Sutherland

  • Empire of Words: The Reign of the ‘OED’ by John Willinsky

• Tom Shippey

  • Northern Antiquity: The Post-Medieval Reception of Edda and Saga edited by Andrew Wawn
  • Heritage and Prophecy: Grundtvig and the English-Speaking World edited by A.M. Allchin

• Emily Gowers

  • Latin Literature: A History by Gian Biagio Conte, translated by Joseph Solodow

• John Ray

  • Deciphering the Indus Script by Asko Parpola
  • The World on Paper by David Olson

• David Sylvester

  • A Biographical Dictionary of Film by David Thomson

• Ian Hamilton

  • Genius in Disguise: Harold Ross of the ‘New Yorker’ by Thomas Kunkel

• Ed Regis

  • Killing Time: The Autobiography of Paul Feyerabend

• Bertram Wyatt-Brown

  • The Southern Tradition: The Achievement and Limitations of an American Conservatism by Eugene Genovese

• Bernard O’Donoghue
  Poem: ‘The Iron Age Boat at Caumatruish’

• Amit Chaudhuri

  • The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro

• Sarah Rigby

  • The Best of Friends by Joanna Trollope

• Neil Rollinson
  Poem: ‘You Could Get Addicted to a Book Like That’

• Laurence Whitehead

  • The Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Documents
  • The Cuban Revolution: Origin, Course and Legacy by Marifeli Pérez-Stable
  • Cuba on the Brink: Castro, the Missile Crisis and the Soviet Collapse by James Blight, Bruce Allyn and David Welch
  • Castro’s Final Hour: The Secret Story Behind the Coming Downfall of Communist Cuba by Andrés Oppenheimer
  • Revolution in the Balance: Law and Society in Contemporary Cuba by Debra Evenson
  • The Problem of Democracy in Cuba: Between Vision and Reality by Carollee Bengelsdorf
  • Back from the Future: Cuba under Castro by Susan Eva Eckstein
  • Fidel Castro by Robert Quirk
  • Healing the Masses: Cuban Health Politics at Home and Abroad by Julie Feinsilver
  • Contesting Castro: The United States and the Triumph of the Cuban Revolution by Thomas Paterson

• Roy Porter

  • Marihuana: The Forbidden Medicine by Lester Grinspoon, edited by James Bakalar

• C.K. Stead

  • Christina Stead: A Biography by Hazel Rowley

• Iain Sinclair
  Diary

• Jamie McKendrick
  Poem: ‘The One-Star’