Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Gabriele Annan
• John Ashbery
• Andrew Berry
• David Bromwich
• Harry Clifton
• David Cooper
• Gillian Darley
• Rosemary Dinnage
• Thomas Jones
• Kevin Kopelson
• Charles Nicholl
• Adam Phillips
• Lorna Sage
• Sukhdev Sandhu
• Nicholas Spice
• David Sylvester
• Immanuel Wallerstein
• David Wheatley

Contents

• Nicholas Spice

  • The John Marsh Journals: The Life and Times of a Gentleman Composer (1752-1828) edited by Brian Robins

• Letters
  Joe Baker, Lesley Chamberlain, Dany Nobus, Eli Zaretsky, Mick Hartley, Stephen Mitchell, Nicholas Faith, Anna Hayman, Peter Wollen, Hilary Mantel, Michael Steger, Melvyn Firth, Richard Ollard, Frederick Barker, Robert Creamer, John O’Byrne

• Adam Phillips

  • Svengali’s Web: The Alien Enchanter in Modern Culture by Daniel Pick

• John Ashbery
  Two Poems

• Immanuel Wallerstein
  The Albatross of Racism: Europe’s oldest disgrace

• Charles Nicholl
  ‘A Being full of Witching’: the ‘poor half-harlot’ of Hazlitt’s affections

• David Sylvester
  Mayhem at Millbank: the new hang at the Tate Britain (2000)

• Gillian Darley

  • Stylistic Cold Wars: Betjeman v. Pevsner by Timothy Mowl

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts

• David Bromwich

  • Still the New World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction by Philip Fisher

• Andrew Berry

  • Footsteps in the Forest: Alfred Russel Wallace in the Amazon by Sandra Knapp

• David Cooper
  Homeric Cheese v. Technophiliac Relish: GM food

• David Wheatley

  • To Ireland, I by Paul Muldoon
  • Bandanna by Paul Muldoon
  • The Birds translated by Paul Muldoon, with Richard Martin
  • Reading Paul Muldoon by Clair Wills

• Sukhdev Sandhu

  • Midnight All Day by Hanif Kureishi

• Harry Clifton
  Poem: ‘The Bathhouse’

• Gabriele Annan

  • Lost by Hans-Ulrich Treichel, translated by Carol Brown Janeway

• Lorna Sage

  • What is a Woman? And Other Essays by Toril Moi

• Kevin Kopelson

  • Franz Liszt. Vol. III: The Final Years, 1861-86 by Alan Walker
  • The Romantic Generation by Charles Rosen
  • Franz Liszt: Selected Letters edited by Adrian Williams

• Rosemary Dinnage
  Diary