CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• John Bossy
• Nick Cohen
• Christopher Hitchens
• Michael Hofmann
• Richard Horton
• August Kleinzahler
• Charles Nicholl
• Nicholas Penny
• Michael Rogin
• Steven Shapin
• Alexander Stille
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Alexander Stille

  • Gabriele D’Annunzio: Defiant Archangel by John Woodhouse

• Letters
  Charles Simic, Adrian Mitchell, Peter Gillman, William Logan, Anthony Barnett, John Bayley, David Hooper, Eric Thompson, David Rose

• Nick Cohen

  • First Annual Report on Human Rights
  • The Great Deception by Mark Curtis

• August Kleinzahler
  Three Poems

• John Bossy

  • Abelard: A Medieval Life by M.T. Clanchy

• Michael Rogin

  • The Old Religion by David Mamet

• Steven Shapin

  • Edmond Halley: Charting the Heavens and the Seas by Alan Cook

• Michael Wood

  • The Material Ghost: Films and Their Medium by Gilberto Perez
  • On the History of Film Style by David Bordwell
  • Gilles Deleuze's Time Machine by D.N. Rodowick
  • The Aesthetics and Psychology of the Cinema by Jean Mitry, translated by Christopher King
  • Signs and Meaning in the Cinema by Peter Wollen

• Michael Hofmann
  Three Poems

• Nicholas Penny

  • Correggio by David Ekserdjian
  • The 'Divine' Guido by Richard Spear

• Richard Horton

  • The National Health Service: A Political History by Charles Webster

• Charles Nicholl
  Screaming in the Castle: The Case of Beatrice Cenci on the story of Beatrice Cenci

• Christopher Hitchens
  Diary slums it with the Almanach de Gotha