Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Barber
• David Cannadine
• Jonathan Coe
• William Empson
• Arthur Goldhammer
• Anthony Grafton
• Frank Kermode
• Mel Kernahan
• Zachary Leader
• Michael Mason
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Patrick Parrinder
• Alan Ross
• Lorna Sage
• Iain Sinclair
• David Trotter
• E.S. Turner
• Leslie Wilson

Contents

• Andrew O’Hagan

  • Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1940-56 edited by Ann Charters

• Letters
  Claudia Johnson, J. Woolley, Tom Nairn, Peter McDonald, Jim Fenton, Steven Rose, Alan Clarke, Geoffrey Gait Harpham, Keith Flett, Alan Gabbey, Editor, ‘London Review’

• Frank Kermode

  • The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald

• Jonathan Coe

  • The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco

• Alan Ross
  Poem: ‘Monkeys at Rewa’

• Lorna Sage

  • The Ghost Road by Pat Barker

• David Cannadine

  • Royal Bounty: The Making of a Welfare Monarchy by Frank Prochaska

• Michael Mason

  • The Village that Died for England by Patrick Wright

• E.S. Turner

  • The Railway Man by Eric Lomax

• John Barber

  • Lenin: His Life and Legacy by Dmitri Volkogonov, translated and edited by Harold Shukman
  • Lenin: A Political Life. Vol. III: The Iron Ring by Robert Service

• Leslie Wilson

  • The Private Life of Chairman Mao by Li Zhisui, translated by Tai Hung-Chao

• William Empson
  Moonlight Robbery: China 1938

• Anthony Grafton

  • Impolite Learning: Conduct and Community in the Republic of Letters, 1680-1750 by Anne Goldgar

• David Trotter

  • Modernist Quartet by Frank Lentricchia

• Patrick Parrinder

  • The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk, translated by Güneli Gün

• Zachary Leader

  • The Paperboy by Pete Dexter
  • Third and Indiana by Steve Lopez

• Iain Sinclair

  • Vale Royal by Aidan Dun

• Mel Kernahan
  Diary

• Arthur Goldhammer

  • The Private Science of Louis Pasteur by Gerald Geison
  • Louis Pasteur by Patrice Debré
  • Pasteur by Pierre Darmon