CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Robin Briggs
• David Coward
• David Craig
• Paul Driver
• Michael Gorra
• David Harsent
• Christopher Hitchens
• Richard Jenkyns
• August Kleinzahler
• Eric Korn
• Paul Seabright
• Theo Tait
• Michael Wood
• James Wood
• Hugo Young

Contents

• Christopher Hitchens

  • Isaiah Berlin: A Life by Michael Ignatieff
  • The Guest from the Future: Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin by György Dalos

• Letters
  William Millinship, Graham Robb, John Coleby, Richard Evans, Stuart Semmel, Oleg Gordievsky, Ian Angus, Beverley Strauss, John Sutherland

• August Kleinzahler
  Poem: ‘September, with Travellers’

• Hugo Young

  • The Curse of My Life: My Autobiography by Edward Heath

• Michael Wood

  • A la recherche du temps perdu: Combray by Marcel Proust, edited by Stéphane Heuet
  • Proust among the Stars by Malcolm Bowie

• James Wood

  • Knut Hamsun: Selected Letters, Vol. II 1898-1952 edited by Harald Næss and James McFarlane
  • Hunger by Knut Hamsun, translated by Sverre Lyngstad

• Paul Driver

  • Sibelius. Vol. III: 1914-57 by Erik Tawaststjerna, edited by Robert Layton

• Eric Korn

  • The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin, edited by Paul Ekman

• Richard Jenkyns

  • Lord Byron’s Jackal: A Life of Trelawny by David Crane

• David Harsent
  Three Poems from ‘Marriage’

• Michael Gorra

  • A Long Finish by Michael Dibdin

• Theo Tait

  • The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills

• Paul Seabright

  • Rebirth of a Nation: An Anatomy of Russia by John Lloyd
  • Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia by David Remnick

• Robin Briggs

  • Saint-Simon, ou le système de la cour by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie and Jean-François Fitou

• David Coward

  • The Figaro Plays by Pierre de Beaumarchais, translated by John Wells

• David Craig
  Diary in Florence