Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Gabriele Annan
• John Ashbery
• T.H. Barrett
• David Blackbourn
• David Craig
• Malcolm Deas
• Stephen Fender
• Jerry Fodor
• Colin Kidd
• Jean McNicol
• Tom Nairn
• Linda Nochlin
• Edward Said
• John Sutherland
• Peter Wollen

Contents

• Tom Nairn
  The Departed Spirit

• Letters
  Annemarie Heywood, David Longley, Conrad Cork, Martha Nussbaum, Norman Moss, Willie Thompson, Tony Woolfson, Christopher Small, Paul Eustice

• John Ashbery
  Poem: ‘Homecoming’

• Peter Wollen

  • Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection by Norman Rosenthal

• Linda Nochlin

  • American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America by Robert Hughes

• Colin Kidd

  • Secret and Sanctioned: Covert Operations and the American Presidency by Stephen Knott
  • The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800 by Conor Cruise O’Brien
  • American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph Ellis
  • Slave Laws in Virginia by Philip Schwarz

• Stephen Fender

  • Dust-bowl Migrants in the American Imagination by Charles Shindo
  • In the Country of Country by Nicholas Dawidoff

• Jerry Fodor

  • Points of View by A.W. Moore

• T.H. Barrett

  • The City of Light by Jacob d’Ancona, translated and edited by David Selbourne

• Jean McNicol

  • Noel Coward and Radclyffe Hall: Kindred Spirits by Terry Castle
  • Your John: The Love Letters of Radclyffe Hall edited by Joanne Glasgow
  • Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John by Sally Cline

• Gabriele Annan

  • The Reader by Bernhard Schlink, translated by Carol Brown Janeway

• David Blackbourn

  • Man Without a Face: The Memoirs of a Spymaster by Markus Wolf and Anne McElvoy
  • The File: A Personal History by Timothy Garton Ash

• Edward Said
  On ‘Fidelio’

• Malcolm Deas

  • News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Edith Grossman
  • Chapolas Negras by Fernando Vallejo
  • José Asunción Silva: Obra Completa edited by Hector Orjuela

• John Sutherland

  • The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Vol. XXV: January-December 1850 edited by Clyde de L. Ryals and K.J. Fielding
  • Reminiscences by Thomas Carlyle, edited by K.J. Fielding and Ian Campbell

• David Craig
  Diary