Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Peter Campbell
• Nick Cohen
• Jenny Diski
• Denis Donoghue
• David Edgar
• Mark Ford
• Simon Goldhill
• Ian Hamilton
• R.W. Johnson
• Alexander Nehamas
• John Ray
• Mark Rudman
• Ian Sansom
• Steven Shapin
• Olivier Todd
• James Wood

Contents

• James Wood

  • The String of Pearls by Joseph Roth, translated by Michael Hofmann

• Letters
  Christopher Hitchens, Adam Thorpe, Deborah McVea, Jeremy Treglown, Conrad Dehn, Sheldon Watts, Stuart Silverman

• Mark Rudman
  Poem: ‘The Pretend and the Fake’

• Peter Campbell

  • Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch edited by Gary Tinterow and Philip Conisbee
  • Velázquez: The Technique of Genius by Jonathan Brown and Carmen Garrido

• Nick Cohen

  • Mandy: The Authorised Biography of Peter Mandelson by Paul Routledge

• Jenny Diski

  • A Slight and Delicate Creature: The Memoirs of Margaret Cook

• Olivier Todd

  • Marguerite Duras by Laure Adler
  • No More by Marguerite Duras

• Alexander Nehamas

  • Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch by John Bayley

• Ian Sansom

  • Living in Time: The Poetry of C. Day Lewis by Albert Gelpi

• Ian Hamilton

  • Lives of the Poets by Michael Schmidt
  • A Critical Difference: T.S. Eliot and John Middleton Murry in English Literary Criticism, 1919-28 by David Goldie

• Denis Donoghue

  • Rounding the Horn: Collected Poems by Jon Stallworthy

• David Edgar

  • War Primer by Bertolt Brecht, edited by John Willett
  • Brecht in Context: Comparative Approaches by John Willett
  • Brecht and Method by Fredric Jameson

• Steven Shapin

  • The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science and Character by Daniel Kevles

• Mark Ford
  Poem: ‘I wish’

• John Ray

  • Finding the Walls of Troy: Frank Calvert and Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlik by Susan Heuck Allen

• Simon Goldhill

  • Hippocrates’ Women: Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece by Helen King

• R.W. Johnson
  Diary: Goodbye Zimbabwe