Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Patrick Collinson
• Alistair Elliot
• Paul Foot
• Carlo Ginzburg
• Richard Jenkyns
• Frank Kermode
• Wayne Koestenbaum
• Kevin Kopelson
• Frank Lentricchia
• Edward Luttwak
• Ross McKibbin
• Adam Phillips
• Lorna Sage
• Roger Scruton
• Jerrold Seigel
• Geoffrey Wall

Contents

• Ross McKibbin
  Very Old Labour

• Letters
  S.W. Dawson, Adam Roberts, Brian Lang, Fernando de Torres, Tony Judt, Frank Kermode, John Harding, David Cobb, Jacob Mendlovic, Ron Haggart, William Reid, Betty Spice, James MacGibbon, Richard Nielson

• Alistair Elliot
  Poem: ‘Slugs’

• Paul Foot

  • Once a Jolly Bagman: Memoirs by Alistair McAlpine

• Carlo Ginzburg
  The Case of Adriano Sofri

• Frank Lentricchia
  No More Whining

• Frank Kermode

  • The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion by Leo Steinberg

• Roger Scruton

  • The Dancing Column: On Order in Architecture by Joseph Rykwert

• Richard Jenkyns

  • Art and the Victorian Middle Class: Money and the Making of Cultural Identity by Dianne Sachko Macleod

• Jerrold Seigel

  • The Plight of Emulation: Ernest Meissonier and French Salon Painting by Marc Gotlieb

• Geoffrey Wall

  • Louis Bouilhet: Lettres à Gustave Flaubert edited by Maria Cappello

• Wayne Koestenbaum

  • The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion

• Lorna Sage

  • A Regular Guy by Mona Simpson
  • The Keepsake by Kirsty Gunn

• Adam Phillips

  • The Scientific Revolution by Steven Shapin

• Patrick Collinson

  • The Sound of Virtue: Philip Sidney’s ‘Arcadia’ and Elizabethan Politics by Blair Worden

• Edward Luttwak
  Diary

• Kevin Kopelson

  • Shine directed by Scott Hicks
  • Shine: The Screenplay by Jan Sardi
  • The Book of David by Beverley Eley
  • Love You to Bits and Pieces: Life with David Helfgott by Gillian Helfgott, with Alissa Tanskaya