Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Gabriele Annan
• David A. Bell
• John Burnside
• Peter Clarke
• Jenny Diski
• Ian Gilmour
• Zoë Heller
• Jamie McKendrick
• Rebecca Mead
• Andrew O’Hagan
• W.G. Runciman
• Elaine Showalter
• Edmund White

Contents

• Edmund White

  • Andre Gide: A Life in the Present by Alan Sheridan
  • Andre Gide ou la vocation du bonheur. Tome 1, 1869-1911 by Claude Martin

• Letters
  Roger Scruton, Stephen Vizinczey, Sylvia Lawson, J.B. Paul, Alexis Lykiard, Diana Hendry, Peter Claus, David Craig, Richard Boston, T.H. Barrett, Mat Pires, Nicolas Walter

• Ian Gilmour

  • This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair by Hugo Young

• David A. Bell

  • The Perfidy of Albion: French Perceptions of England during the French Revolution by Norman Hampson
  • Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders by Don Herzog

• Peter Clarke
  The Rise and Fall of Thatcherism: eight years after

• Andrew O’Hagan
  Three Women: work in progress

• Jenny Diski

  • Abraham on Trial: The Social Legacy of the Biblical Myth by Carol Delaney

• Jamie McKendrick
  Poem: ‘Basilisk’

• Gabriele Annan

  • Alma Mahler-Werfel: The Diaries 1898-1902 translated by Antony Beaumont

• Rebecca Mead

  • Birds of America by Lorrie Moore

• Elaine Showalter

  • Between Us Girls by Joe Orton
  • ‘Fred & Madge’ and ‘The Visitors’ by Joe Orton

• John Burnside

  • Happy like Murderers by Gordon Burn

• Zoë Heller

  • Vivienne Westwood: An Unfashionable Life by Jane Mulvagh

• W.G. Runciman
  Diary