Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Bayley
• David Blackbourn
• Peter Bradshaw
• Duncan Campbell
• Jane Campbell
• Amit Chaudhuri
• A. Craig Copetas
• Allen Curnow
• James Davidson
• Seamus Deane
• Jenny Diski
• Susan Eilenberg
• Mark Elvin
• Christopher Hitchens
• Barbara Johnson
• James Miller
• Maurice Riordan
• Ritchie Robertson
• Jacqueline Rose
• Stephen Sedley
• Wendy Steiner
• John Sutherland
• Tony Tanner
• Peter Wollen
• Gaby Wood
• Michael Wood

Contents

• John Bayley

  • A la Pym: The Barbara Pym Cookery Book by Hilary Pym and Honor Wyatt

• Letters
  Gerald Nicosia, Eva Tucker, Robin Holloway, Loraine Fletcher, Phil Edwards, K.A. Berg, Joan Anholt, James Fletcher, Sameera Hartsough, David Drew, Francis Macaulay, William Baker, Claude Rawson

• John Sutherland
  The Great NBA Disaster

• Christopher Hitchens

  • Palimpsest: A Memoir by Gore Vidal

• Michael Wood

  • Sabbath’s Theater by Philip Roth

• Barbara Johnson

  • Post Scripts: The Writer’s Workshop by Vincent Kaufmann, translated by Deborah Treisman
  • The Oxford Book of Letters edited by Frank Kermode and Anita Kermode

• Allen Curnow
  Poem: ‘Pacific 1945-1995’

• Susan Eilenberg

  • Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind by Patricia Meyer Spacks

• Jacqueline Rose

  • Christina Rossetti: A Literary Biography by Jan Marsh

• Stephen Sedley

  • Overcoming Law by Richard Posner

• Peter Bradshaw

  • The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture by Jonathan Sawday

• James Davidson

  • Foucault’s Virginity: Ancient Erotic Fiction and the History of Sexuality by Simon Goldhill

• Wendy Steiner

  • Gertrude Stein in Words and Pictures by Renate Stendhal
  • ‘Favoured Strangers’: Gertrude Stein and Her Family by Linda Wagner-Martin

• Tony Tanner

  • Bret Harte: Selected Stories and Sketches by David Wyatt

• A. Craig Copetas

  • Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825-1908 edited by Dean A. Sullivan

• Mark Elvin

  • Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860 by Richard Grove

• Seamus Deane

  • Heathcliff and the Great Hunger: Studies in Irish Culture by Terry Eagleton

• Amit Chaudhuri
  The Man from Khurda District

• David Blackbourn

  • Reflections on a Life by Norbert Elias
  • The Civilising Process by Norbert Elias

• James Miller

  • Hannah Arendt/Martin Heidegger by Elzbieta Ettinger
  • Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954: Uncollected and Unpublished Works by Hannah Arendt, edited by Jerome Kohn
  • Hannah Arendt: A Reinterpretation of Her Political Thought by Margaret Canovan
  • Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy edited by Carol Brightman
  • Hannah Arendt/Karl Jaspers: Correspondence, 1926-1969 edited by Lotte Kohler and Hans Saner, translated by Robert and Rita Kimber

• Ritchie Robertson

  • Georg Büchner: The Shattered Whole by John Reddick
  • Complete Plays, ‘Lenz’ and Other Writings by Georg Büchner, translated by John Reddick

• Jane Campbell

  • Moo by Jane Smiley

• Maurice Riordan
  Poem: ‘The Lettuce’

• Gaby Wood

  • The Blue Suit by Richard Rayner
  • The Liar’s Club by Mary Karr

• Duncan Campbell

  • The Autobiography of a Thief by Bruce Reynolds

• Jenny Diski
  Diary

• Peter Wollen

  • Sex and Suits by Anne Hollander