Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Patrick Collinson
• Jenny Diski
• George Ellis
• Jerry Fodor
• R.W. Johnson
• Thomas Jones
• Jerome McGann
• Sarah Maguire
• Hilary Mantel
• Lynne Mastnak
• Lorna Scott Fox
• Elizabeth Spelman
• Matthew Sweeney
• David Sylvester
• Christopher Tayler
• James Wood

Contents

• Hilary Mantel

  • Robespierre edited by Colin Haydon and William Doyle

• Letters
  Dave Hickey, Galen Strawson, Stephen Burt, Richard Cummings, Jonathan Pratter, C.G. Estabrook, Gabriel Finkelstein, Conrad Dehn, Anna Bostock, Myron Kaplan, Stephen Sedley, Vanessa Coode, R.E. Bye, Ole Jann, Jenny Diski, Keith Flett, Theo Tait, Editor, ‘London Review’

• Matthew Sweeney
  Poem: ‘The Ice Hotel’

• Elizabeth Spelman

  • On the Emotions by Richard Wollheim

• R.W. Johnson

  • Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII by John Cornwall

• George Ellis

  • The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene

• Patrick Collinson

  • Philip Sidney: A Double Life by Alan Stewart

• David Sylvester

  • Groovy Bob: The Life and Times of Robert Fraser by Harriet Vyner

• James Wood

  • On Trust: Art and the Temptations of Suspicion by Gabriel Josipovici

• Jerome McGann

  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Collected Writings edited by Jan Marsh
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Painter and Poet by Jan Marsh

• Jenny Diski

  • Literary Seductions: Compulsive Writers and Diverted Readers by Frances Wilson

• Lorna Scott Fox

  • Dreaming with His Eyes Open: A Life of Diego Rivera by Patrick Marnham
  • Diego Rivera: The Detroit Industry Murals by Linda Bank Downs

• Sarah Maguire
  Two Poems

• Thomas Jones

  • The Third Woman by William Cash
  • Greene on Capri: A Memoir by Shirley Hazzard

• Christopher Tayler

  • Canteen Culture by Ike Eze-anyika
  • Charlieunclenorfolktango by Tony White
  • Filth by Irvine Welsh

• Lynne Mastnak
  Not Much Tolerance, Not Much Water: the last nine months in Kosovo

• Jerry Fodor
  Diary: The Elton John and Tim Rice reworking of Aida