Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Joan Acocella
• Scott Bradfield
• James Buchan
• Jenny Diski
• Margaret Anne Doody
• Alistair Elliot
• Christopher Hitchens
• Frank Kermode
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Richard Poirier
• Nicholas Spice
• John Sutherland

Contents

• Nicholas Spice

  • Mozart by Maynard Solomon

• Letters
  Jill Kitson, Clive James, Shaun Spiers, John Wadham, J.A.G. Griffith, Adam Kadmon, Bonnie Herron, J. Woolley, Keith Flett, Robert Sutton, D.M. Bain, Tony Woolfson, Jim Fenton, Chris Oakley, Fiona Pitt-Kethley

• Andrew O’Hagan

  • Oswald’s Tale: An American Mystery by Norman Mailer

• Richard Poirier

  • Henry James and the Art of Non-Fiction by Tony Tanner

• James Buchan

  • The Life of Adam Smith by Ian Simpson Ross

• Margaret Anne Doody

  • Slip-Shod Sibyls: Recognition, Rejection and the Woman Poet by Germaine Greer

• Jenny Diski

  • Fight & Kick & Bite: The Life and Work of Dennis Potter by W. Stephen Gilbert
  • Dennis Potter: A Life on Screen by John Cook

• John Sutherland

  • Shadows of the Future: H.G. Wells, Science Fiction and Prophecy by Patrick Parrinder
  • The History of Mr Wells by Michael Foot
  • A Modern Utopia by H.G. Wells, edited by Krishan Kumar

• Alistair Elliot
  Two Poems

• Scott Bradfield

  • Jim Thompson Omnibus: The Getaway, The Killer inside Me, The Grifters, Pop. 1280
  • Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson by Robert Polito

• Joan Acocella

  • Flamenco Deep Song by Timothy Mitchell
  • ¡Tango! The Dance, the Song, the Story by Simon Collier, Artemis Cooper, María Susana Azzi and Richard Martin
  • Rumba: Dance and Social Change in Contemporary Cuba by Yvonne Daniel

• Frank Kermode
  My Mad Captains

• Christopher Hitchens
  Diary