Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Geoffrey Best
• Basil Davidson
• P.N. Furbank
• Martha Gellhorn
• Anthony Grafton
• Ian Hamilton
• John Redmond
• Robin Robertson
• Iain Sinclair
• John Sturrock
• E.S. Turner
• Jeremy Waldron
• Edmund White
• Michael Wood
• Nicholas Xenos

Contents

• Martha Gellhorn
  Mean Streets of Salvador

• Letters
  Josef Elfenbein, Merryn Williams, Mari Shullaw, Nicolas Tredell, Keith Flett, Allan Young, Roger House, Scott Thornbury, James Davidson, D.M. Roskies

• Michael Wood

  • Life of a Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke by Ralph Freedman
  • Uncollected Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Edward Snow
  • Rilke’s ‘Duino Elegies’: Cambridge Readings edited by Roger Paulin and Peter Hutchinson

• Edmund White

  • Selected Poems by James Merrill

• Jeremy Waldron

  • Machiavelli’s Virtue by Harvey Mansfield

• Geoffrey Best

  • Fairness in International Law and Institutions by Thomas Franck

• Nicholas Xenos

  • Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and their Journey by Isabel Fonseca

• Robin Robertson
  Poem: ‘A Sequence from ‘Camera Obscura’’

• Basil Davidson
  Goodbye to Some of That

• E.S. Turner

  • The Dictionary of National Biography 1986-1990 edited by C.S. Nicholls

• John Sturrock

  • Bradman by Charles Williams

• Iain Sinclair

  • A Perfect Execution by Tim Binding

• John Redmond

  • Can You Hear, Bird by John Ashbery
  • The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems by Jorie Graham
  • Selected Poems by Barbara Guest
  • Selected Poems 1976-1996 by George Szirtes
  • Adam’s Dream by Peter McDonald

• P.N. Furbank

  • The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, translated by Allen Mandelbaum
  • The Inferno of Dante. A New Verse Translation by Robert Pinsky, illustrated by Michael Mazur
  • Dante’s Hell translated by Steve Ellis

• Ian Hamilton
  Diary

• Anthony Grafton

  • The Fortunes of ‘The Courtier’: The European Reception of Castiglione’s ‘Cortegiano’ by Peter Burke