Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Dinah Birch
• John Dupré
• Patrice Higonnet
• Christopher Hitchens
• R.W. Johnson
• Frank Kermode
• Colin Kidd
• Dick Leonard
• Edward Luttwak
• Ruth Padel
• Christopher Prendergast
• Lorna Scott Fox
• Paul Smith
• John Sutherland
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Edward Luttwak
  Central Bankism

• Letters
  David Craig, Jörg Rademacher, Alison Leonard, Christopher Price, David Hayes, James Owen, Elisa Segrave, Edward Said, Yitzhak Laor, J. P. Spencer, Philip Corrigan, Colin McGinn, Christopher Hawtree, Stanley Jones

• Christopher Prendergast

  • Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett by James Knowlson
  • Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist by Anthony Cronin
  • The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett. Vol I: Waiting for Godot edited by Dougald McMillan and James Knowlson
  • The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett. Vol II: Endgame edited by S.E. Gontarski
  • The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett. Vol III: Krapp’s Last Tape edited by James Knowlson
  • Eleutheria by samuel Beckett, translated by Barbara Wright

• Michael Wood

  • The Life and Work of Harold Pinter by Michael Billington

• R.W. Johnson

  • Hugh Gaitskell by Brian Brivati

• Colin Kidd

  • The Correspondence of Adam Ferguson edited by Vincenzo Merolle

• Patrice Higonnet

  • Benjamin Franklin and his Enemies by Robert Middlekauf

• John Dupré

  • The Lives to Come: The Genetic Revolution and Human Possibilities by Philip Kitcher

• Christopher Hitchens

  • Jacqueline Bouvier: An Intimate Memoir by John Davis

• Lorna Scott Fox

  • Lola Montez: A Life by Bruce Seymour

• Dinah Birch

  • Letters of Emma and Florence Hardy edited by Michael Millgate

• Ruth Padel
  Poem: ‘Scotch’

• Frank Kermode

  • Reality and Dreams by Muriel Spark

• John Sutherland

  • From Potter’s Field by Patricia Cornwell
  • Cause of Death by Patricia Cornwell

• Dick Leonard
  Diary

• Paul Smith

  • Making Men: Rugby and Masculine Identity edited by John Nauright and Timothy Chandler