Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• David Blackbourn
• Gordon A. Craig
• David Craig
• Misha Glenny
• Fred Halliday
• Michael Ignatieff
• R.W. Johnson
• August Kleinzahler
• Glyn Maxwell
• Alexander Nehamas
• Adam Phillips
• Edward Said
• Ian Sansom
• Kenneth Silverman
• John Sutherland
• Jenny Turner
• Charles Wheeler

Contents

• Edward Said

  • Glenn Gould: The Ecstasy and the Tragedy of Genius by Peter Ostwald
  • When the Music Stops: Managers, Maestros and the Corporate Murder of Classical Music by Norman Lebrecht

• Letters
  Ron Haggart, James Barrett, J.R. Evenhuis, Colin Tucker, John Wadham, John Kerrigan, Graham McCann, Jeremy Bernstein, Susan Bielstein

• August Kleinzahler
  Poem: ‘Late Autumn Afternoons’

• Adam Phillips

  • A Centenary Pessoa edited by Eugénio Lisboa and L.C. Taylor
  • The Keeper of Sheep by Fernando Pessoa, translated by Edwin Honig and Susan Brown
  • The Book of Disquietude by Fernando Pessoa, translated by Richard Zenith

• Ian Sansom

  • W.H. Auden: Prose 1926-38, Essays and Reviews and Travel Books in Prose and Verse edited by Edward Mendelson

• Misha Glenny

  • Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood: Passages to Nation hood in Greek Macedonia, 1870-1990 by Anastasia Karakasidou

• Alexander Nehamas

  • Dinner with Persephone by Patricia Storace

• Fred Halliday
  Family Business

• David Blackbourn

  • Rituals of Retribution: Capital Punishment in Germany 1600-1987 by Richard J. Evans

• Gordon A. Craig

  • Ernst Jünger and Germany: Into the Abyss, 1914-45 by Thomas Nevin

• Glyn Maxwell
  Two Poems

• Michael Ignatieff

  • Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture by Elaine Showalter

• Charles Wheeler

  • Personal History by Katharine Graham

• Jenny Turner

  • Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon

• John Sutherland

  • Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
  • The Man of the Forest: The Authorised Version by Zane Grey
  • The Thundering Herd: The Authorised Version by Zane Grey

• David Craig

  • John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings edited by Terry Gifford

• R.W. Johnson
  Diary

• Kenneth Silverman

  • Accidentally, on Purpose: The Making of a Personal Injury Underworld in America by Ken Dornstein