Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• David A. Bell
• Phyllis Birnbaum
• John Bossy
• Colin Burrow
• Patrick Collinson
• Terry Eagleton
• Douglas Johnson
• J.D.F. Jones
• Frank Kermode
• Alison Light
• Stephen Sedley
• Charles Simic
• Gabrielle Spiegel
• John Sturrock
• Alex de Waal
• James Wood
• David Wootton

Contents

• Alison Light

  • Flush by Virginia Woolf, edited by Elizabeth Steele
  • Timbuktu by Paul Auster

• Letters
  Tim Minogue, D.J. Richards, Paul Trewhela, R.W. Johnson, Steven Rose, Arnold Rattenbury, Alan Myers

• Charles Simic
  Two Poems

• Frank Kermode

  • Darwin's Worms by Adam Phillips

• John Bossy

  • Marx on Suicide edited by Eric Plaut and Kevin Anderson, translated by Gabrielle Edgcomb
  • Suicide in the Middle Ages, Vol I: The Violent Against Themselves by Alexander Murray
  • A History of Suicide: Voluntary Death in Western Culture by Georges Minois, translated by Lydia Cochrane

• Patrick Collinson

  • The World of the Favourite edited by J.H. Elliott and L.W.B. Brockliss
  • The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics: The Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1585-97 by Paul Hammer

• Colin Burrow

  • Henry Howard, the Poet Earl of Surrey: A Life by W.A. Sessions

• Terry Eagleton

  • Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney

• Alex de Waal

  • Soldiers of Diplomacy: The United Nations, Peacekeeping and the New World Order by Jocelyn Coulon
  • Hard Choices: Moral Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention edited by Jonathan Moore
  • New and Old Wars: Organised Violence in the Global Era by Mary Kaldor

• Douglas Johnson

  • A Les Trósors Retrouvós de la ‘Revue des deux Mondes’ edited by Jeanne Causse and Bruno de Cessole
  • La Guerre d’Algórie par les Documents. Vol. II: Les Portes de la Guerre, 10 Mars 1946 à 31 Dócembre 1954 edited by Jean-Charles Jauffret
  • De Gaulle et L’Algóerie: Mon Tómoinage 1960-62 by Jean Morin

• Phyllis Birnbaum

  • A Diary of Darkness: The Wartime Diary of Kiyosawa Kiyoshi translated by Eugene Soviak

• James Wood

  • Letters between a Father and Son by V.S. Naipaul

• John Sturrock

  • George Sand: A Woman’s Life Writ Large by Belinda Jack

• David A. Bell

  • Lourdes: Body and Spirit in the Secular Age by Ruth Harris

• Gabrielle Spiegel

  • The Lord’s First Night: The Myth of the Droit de Cuissage by Alain Boureau, translated by Lydia Cochrane

• David Wootton

  • Shaman of Oberstdorf: Chonrad Stoeckhlin and the Phantoms of the Night by Wolfgang Behringer, translated by H.C.Erik Midelfort
  • Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe by Stuart Clark
  • Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England by Alan Macfarlane
  • The Bewitching of Anne Gunter: A Horrible and True Story of Football, Witchcraft, Murder and the King of England by James Sharpe

• J.D.F. Jones

  • Ladysmith by Giles Foden
  • Manly Pursuits by Ann Harries

• Stephen Sedley
  Diary: Judges’ Lodgings