Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Gabriele Annan
• Christoph Bertram
• Amit Chaudhuri
• Jonathan Coe
• Robert Crawford
• Nuruddin Farah
• William Fiennes
• Paul Foot
• Christopher Hadley
• Alex Harvey
• Rosemary Hill
• Frank Kermode
• Wayne Koestenbaum
• Ruth Padel
• Peter Parsons
• Matthew Reisz
• Lorna Scott Fox
• John Sturrock

Contents

• Frank Kermode

  • Frozen Desire: An Inquiry into the Meaning of Money by James Buchan

• Letters
  Güneli Gün, Charles Simic, Malcolm Carpenter, Pete Ayrton, Editor, ‘London Review’, Valentin Lyubarsky, Adrian Bowyer, James Hamilton, Nicholas Barnes

• Peter Parsons

  • Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens by James Davidson

• Christoph Bertram

  • Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany by Charles Maier

• John Sturrock

  • Bergson: Biographie by Philippe Soulez and Frédéric Worms

• Ruth Padel
  Two Poems

• Jonathan Coe

  • Selected Stories by Mavis Gallant

• Lorna Scott Fox

  • Monsieur Shoushana’s Lemon Trees by Patricia Duncker

• Gabriele Annan

  • The File on H by Ismail Kadare, translated by David Bellos

• Matthew Reisz

  • By the Banks of the Neva: Chapters from the Lives and Careers of the British in 18th-Century Russia by Anthony Cross

• Nuruddin Farah

  • Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa by Keith Richburg

• Amit Chaudhuri

  • Desert Places by Robyn Davidson

• Wayne Koestenbaum

  • Audrey Hepburn by Barry Paris

• Rosemary Hill

  • Rare Spirit: A Life of William De Morgan 1839-1917 by Mark Hamilton

• Robert Crawford
  Poem: ‘Impossibility’

• William Fiennes

  • Wilde’s Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy and the First World War by Philip Hoare

• Alex Harvey
  Boofy’s Bill

• Christopher Hadley
  Diary

• Paul Foot

  • Trial of Strength: The Battle Between Ministers and Judges over Who Makes the Law by Joshua Rozenberg
  • The Politics of the Judiciary by J.A.G. Griffith