Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Banville
• Peter Clarke
• David Craig
• James Davidson
• Basil Davidson
• Jenny Diski
• Wendy Doniger
• Penelope Fitzgerald
• James Francken
• Terence Hawkes
• Robert Irwin
• R.W. Johnson
• Rakiya Omaar
• Adam Phillips
• Rachel Sevenzo
• Brendan Simms
• John Sutherland
• Adam Thorpe

Contents

• Adam Phillips

  • Kaddish by Leon Wieseltier

• Letters
  Alan Bennett, Valentin Lyubarsky, Duncan Wu, Brian Cox, Lex Lefebvre, Adam Tickell, Peter Stansill, Mark Lilly, Mark Turner, Peter Cadogan, Barry Martin, David Cesarani, Garret FitzGerald, Margaret Kennedy

• R.W. Johnson

  • The Pity of War by Niall Ferguson

• Brendan Simms

  • The Life of Edvard Benes, 1884-1948: Czechoslovakia in Peace and War by Zbynek Zeman and Antonin Klimek

• Penelope Fitzgerald

  • Whistling in the Dark: Memory and Culture in Wartime London by Jean Freedman

• Peter Clarke

  • The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt: Volume I edited by Sarah Curtis

• Wendy Doniger

  • The Last Dinosaur Book: The Life and Times of a Cultural Icon by W.J.T. Mitchell

• James Davidson

  • No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock by Marina Warner

• John Banville

  • Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind by David Cesarani

• James Francken

  • Sonny Liston was a Friend of Mine by Thom Jones

• David Craig

  • The Good Times by James Kelman
  • Near Neighbours by Gordon Legge

• Terence Hawkes

  • The Scottish Invention of English Literature edited by Robert Crawford

• Robert Irwin

  • Richard Aldington and Lawrence of Arabia: A Cautionary Tale by Fred Crawford
  • Lawrence the Uncrowned King of Arabia by Michael Asher

• Basil Davidson

  • The Lusiads by Luí Vaz de Camões, translated by Landeg White
  • Counterinsurgency in Africa: The Portuguese Way of War, 1961-1974 by John Cann
  • The Decolonisation of Portuguese Africa by Norrie MacQueen
  • African Guerrillas edited by Christopher Clapham

• Rakiya Omaar and Rachel Sevenzo

  • What Women Do in Wartime: Gender and Conflict in Africa edited by Meredith Turshen and Clotilde Twagiramariya

• Jenny Diski

  • The Ossie Clark Diaries edited by Henrietta Rous

• Adam Thorpe
  Poem: ‘The Nine Ladies on Stanton Moor’

• John Sutherland
  Diary: Sad Professor

  • An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture by Roger Scruton