Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Bayley
• Hirit Belai
• Shannon Borg
• Linda Colley
• Jenny Diski
• Donald Hall
• Geoffrey Hawthorn
• J. Hoberman
• Gerald Howard
• Hugh Kenner
• John Kerrigan
• Perry Link
• Fintan O’Toole
• Dale Peck
• Sarah Rigby
• E.S. Turner
• Janette Turner Hospital

Contents

• Perry Link

  • Hungry Ghosts: China’s Secret Famine by Jasper Becker

• Letters
  Geoffrey Dutton, Sheldon Litt, Daniel Kinney, S.J.D. Green and R.C. Whiting, Charles Powell, Edward Mendelson, Nicolas Walter, Anthony Lester, Richard F. Riley, Dan Latimer, Janine di Giovanni, Hari Kunzru

• Geoffrey Hawthorn

  • India’s Economic Reforms 1991-2001 by Vijay Joshi and I.M.D. Little

• Linda Colley

  • Empire: The British Imperial Experience, from 1765 to the Present by Denis Judd
  • Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire edited by P.J. Marshall
  • Lords of All the World: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain and France, c.1500-c.1800 by Anthony Pagden

• Jenny Diski

  • I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination by Francis Spufford

• E.S. Turner

  • Passchendaele: The Untold Story by Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson

• Fintan O’Toole

  • The Fourth Estate by Jeffrey Archer
  • Tickle the Public: One Hundred Years of the Popular Press by Matthew Engel
  • Newspaper Power: The New National Press in Britain by Jeremy Tunstall

• Dale Peck

  • Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

• Donald Hall
  Poem: ‘The Sentence’

• Hugh Kenner

  • The Oxford English Grammar by Sidney Greenbaum

• John Bayley

  • The World, the World by Norman Lewis
  • Omnibus: ‘A Dragon Apparent’, ‘Golden Earth’, ‘A Goddess in the Stones’ by Norman Lewis

• Janette Turner Hospital

  • Colour is the Suffering of Light: A Memoir by Melissa Green

• Gerald Howard

  • Secret Life by Michael Ryan

• Sarah Rigby

  • The Yeats Sisters: A Biography of Susan and Elizabeth Yeats by Joan Hardwick

• Shannon Borg
  Poem: ‘While He Lies on a Table under a Round White Light’

• J. Hoberman

  • Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot by Michael Rogin

• John Kerrigan

  • The ‘O’o’a’a’ Bird by Justin Quinn
  • Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time by Eavan Boland
  • Collected Poems by Eavan Boland
  • Captain Lavender by Medbh McGuckian

• Hirit Belai
  Diary