Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Sebastian Balfour
• Peter Clarke
• Robert Crawford
• James Davidson
• Philip French
• Peter Hill
• Christopher Hitchens
• Frank Kermode
• Sean O’Brien
• Iain Sinclair
• David Trotter
• E.S. Turner
• Tom Vanderbilt
• Marina Warner
• Gerald Weissmann

Contents

• Christopher Hitchens
  A Hard Dog to Keep on the Porch

• Letters
  Tom Paulin, C.B. Goodhart, Christopher Prendergast, Anthony Lester, Michael Elcock, David Kuhrt, Victor Menza, Roger Holdsworth

• Marina Warner

  • Tituba Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies by Elaine Breslaw

• Gerald Weissmann

  • The Harmony of Illusions: Inventing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder by Allan Young

• Iain Sinclair
  Off-Beat

• Robert Crawford
  Poem: ‘A Life-Exam’

• Frank Kermode

  • Revision and Romantic Authorship by Zachary Leader

• E.S. Turner

  • A Peculiar Man: A Life of George Moore by Tony Gray

• David Trotter

  • The Letters of Rudyard Kipling. Vol. III: 1900-1910 edited by Thomas Pinney

• Philip French

  • The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives by Sebastian Faulks

• Peter Clarke

  • One Hundred Years of Socialism by Donald Sassoon

• Sebastian Balfour

  • Juan Carlos of Spain: Self-Made Monarch by Charles Powell
  • The Government and Politics of Spain by Paul Heywood

• James Davidson

  • Satyrica by Petronius, translated by Bracht Branham and Daniel Kinney
  • The Satyricon by Petronius, translated by P.G. Walsh

• Sean O’Brien

  • Dear Future by Fred D’Aguiar

• Peter Hill
  Diary

• Tom Vanderbilt

  • microserfs by Douglas Coupland