Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Gabriele Annan
• John Burnside
• Michael Dobson
• Roy Foster
• Gerald Hammond
• R.W. Johnson
• Nicholas Jose
• Hilary Mantel
• Lynne Mastnak
• Lawrence Rainey
• John Sturrock
• Geoffrey Wall
• James Wood

Contents

• Hilary Mantel

  • The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution by Dominique Godineau, translated by Katherine Sharp

• Letters
  Harry Lockhart, Aidan Foster-Carter, Gordon Poole, Michael Kellett, David Rice, Jack Pudding, Simon Frazer, Fred Inglis, Benedict Nixon

• John Sturrock

  • Intellectual Impostures by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont

• R.W. Johnson

  • The Russians and the Anglo-Boer War by Apollon Davidson and Irina Filatova

• Roy Foster

  • Ernie O’Malley: IRA Intellectual by Richard English

• Lawrence Rainey

  • Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life by Nathalie Blondel
  • The Taverner Novels: ‘Armed with Madness’, ‘Death of Felicity Taverner’ by Mary Butts
  • The Classical Novels: ‘The Macedonian’, ‘Scenes from the Life of Cleopatra’ by Mary Butts
  • ‘Ashe of Rings’ and Other Writings by Mary Butts

• James Wood

  • The Spell by Alan Hollinghurst

• Gabriele Annan

  • The Artist's Widow by Sheila Mackay

• Nicholas Jose

  • Eucalyptus by Murray Bail

• Geoffrey Wall

  • These Jaundiced Loves: A Translation of Tristan Corbière’s ‘Les Amours Jaunes’ by Christopher Pilling

• Michael Dobson

  • Lyric Wonder: Rhetoric and Wit in Renaissance English Poetry by James Biester
  • Reason Diminished: Shakespeare and the Marvellous by Peter Platt
  • Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder by T.G. Bishop
  • The Genius of Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate

• John Burnside
  Poem: ‘Fields’

• Lynne Mastnak
  Diary: Kosovo

• Gerald Hammond

  • Laughter at the Foot of the Cross by M.A. Screech