Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Gustave Flaubert
• Patrice Higonnet
• Michael Hofmann
• R.W. Johnson
• Adrian Lyttelton
• Gary Saul Morson
• Ron Ridenhour
• Raphael Samuel
• Alex de Waal
• Geoffrey Wall
• Tim Winton
• Richard Wollheim

Contents

• Raphael Samuel

  • Coming Back Brockens: A Year in a Mining Village by Mark Hudson

• Letters
  Madeleine Bunting, Jenny Chamier Grove, W.B. Carnochan, Allen Andersson, Richard Cummings, Kiffin Rockwell

• R.W. Johnson
  Rubbing along in the neo-liberal way

• Michael Hofmann
  Three Poems

• Alex de Waal

  • War and Law since 1945 by Geoffrey Best
  • Mercy under Fire: War and the Global Humanitarian Community by Larry Minear and Thomas Weiss

• Ron Ridenhour

  • Derailed in Uncle Ho’s Victory Garden: Return to Vietnam and Cambodia by Tim Page
  • In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien
  • In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam by Robert McNamara

• Richard Wollheim

  • Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist and Society by Meyer Schapiro

• Tim Winton

  • Patrick White: Letters edited by David Marr

• Gary Saul Morson

  • Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871 by Joseph Frank

• Two Letters from Gustave Flaubert to Louise Colet

• Patrice Higonnet
  Diary

• Adrian Lyttelton

  • Mazzini by Denis Mack Smith
  • Verdi: A Biography by Mary Jane Phillips-Matz
  • The Real Traviata by Gaia Servadio