Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Michael Byers
• Frank Cioffi
• T.J. Clark
• Rosemary Dinnage
• Jay Griffiths
• Ian Hacking
• Ian Hamilton
• Thomas Jones
• Frank Kermode
• Edwin Morgan
• Alexander Nehamas
• Gilberto Perez
• Roy Porter
• Matthew Reisz
• Avi Shlaim
• Miles Taylor
• David Thomson
• Jenny Turner
• Susan Watkins
• Susan Wicks
• Clive Wilmer

Contents

• T.J. Clark

  • The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin, translated by Howard Eiland

• Letters
  A.W.B. Simpson, Stanley Best, Jonathan Persse, John Elderfield, David Sylvester, Peter Breuer, Conrad Cork, David Potter, Wilhelm Schmid, Andrew Cowan, Richard Gott, Michael Brookes, John Pook, Paul Muldoon, Editor, ‘London Review’

• Frank Kermode

  • The Complete Poems of William Empson edited by John Haffenden

• Gilberto Perez

  • On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality and Culture by Louis Pérez Jr.

• Michael Byers
  Back to the Cold War?: Missile Treaties

• Avi Shlaim

  • The Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation’s Odyssey by Fouad Ajami

• Frank Cioffi

  • The Rumour: A Cultural History by Hans-Joachim Neubauer, translated by Christian Braun

• David Thomson

  • The Way We Lived Then: Recollections of a Well-Known Name Dropper by Dominick Dunne
  • Gary Cooper Off Camera: A Daughter Remembers by Maria Cooper Janis

• Alexander Nehamas

  • On Beauty and Being Just by Elaine Scarry
  • Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy by Dave Hickey

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Adopt a Book

• Ian Hacking

  • Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being by Paul Feyerabend, edited by Bert Terpstra

• Roy Porter

  • British Clubs and Societies 1580-1800: The Origins of an Associational World by Peter Clark

• Miles Taylor

  • British Society 1680-1880: Dynamism, Containment and Change by Richard Price

• Edwin Morgan
  Four Poems

• Clive Wilmer

  • Collected Shorter Poems: 1966-96 by John Peck

• Ian Hamilton

  • The Human Stain by Philip Roth

• Jenny Turner

  • Miss Wyoming by Douglas Coupland

• Susan Wicks
  Two Poems

• Susan Watkins

  • The Clear Stream: A Life of Winifred Holtby by Marion Shaw

• Rosemary Dinnage

  • Selected Letters of Rebecca West edited by Bonnie Kime Scott

• Matthew Reisz

  • American Pimpernel: The Man who Saved the Artists on Hitler’s Death List by Andy Marino

• Jay Griffiths
  Diary: the Mayday protest in London (2000)