CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Peter Campbell
• Margaret Anne Doody
• Anne Enright
• William Gass
• Thomas Jones
• Thomas Laqueur
• Tom Lowenstein
• Elizabeth Lowry
• Edward Luttwak
• Patrick McGuinness
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Murray Sayle
• Charles Simic
• E.S. Turner

Contents

• Edward Luttwak
  Truckers’ Tantrums: Put up the price of oil

• Letters
  Julian Roach, Glen Newey, Anatol Lieven, Jamie Wetherall, Martha Nell Smith

• Andrew O’Hagan

  • Boswell's Presumptuous Task by Adam Sisman
  • James Boswell’s ‘Life of Johnson’: Research Edition: Vol. II edited by Bruce Redford and Elizabeth Goldring
  • Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author by Lawrence Lipking
  • Dr Johnson's London by Liza Picard

• William Gass

  • The Book of Prefaces edited by Alasdair Gray

• Charles Simic
  Two Poems

• Elizabeth Lowry

  • Economy of the Unlost (Reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan) by Anne Carson
  • Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson

• Patrick McGuinness

  • The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
  • Her Book: Poems 1988-98 by Jo Shapcott
  • Zero Gravity by Gwyneth Lewis

• Thomas Laqueur

  • Proximity to Death by William McFeely
  • Death Row: The Encyclopedia of Capital Punishment edited by Bonnie Bobit

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: National Poetry Day

• Peter Campbell
  At Dulwich Picture Gallery: Gerrit Dou

• Tom Lowenstein
  Poem: ‘From ‘The Structure of Days Out’’

• Margaret Anne Doody

  • The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

• E.S. Turner

  • A Monkey among Crocodiles: The Life, Loves and Lawsuits of Mrs Georgina Weldon by Brian Thompson

• Murray Sayle

  • The Masterpiece: Jørn Utzon, a Secret Life by Philip Drew
  • Jørn Utzon: The Sydney Opera House by Françoise Fromonot, translated by Christopher Thompson

• Anne Enright
  My Milk: on becoming a mother