Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Peter Campbell
• Patrick Collinson
• Barbara Everett
• James Francken
• Jeremy Harding
• Tony Harrison
• Zoë Heller
• Michael Hofmann
• Dan Jacobson
• Thomas Jones
• Stephen Knight
• Peter Mair
• Les Murray
• Linda Nochlin
• Joseph Roth
• Elaine Showalter
• Colm Tóibín
• John Upton
• James Wood

Contents

• Colm Tóibín

  • The Wartime Broadcasts of Francis Stuart edited by Brendan Barrington

• Letters
  Naomi Shepherd, J. Spencer, Charles Glass, Elizabeth Young, R.W. Johnson, Gavin Lewis, Barbara Taylor, John A. Davis, Parina Douzina Stiakaki, Brian Pringle, John Widdop, C.K. Stead, Lawrence Stokes, Keith Flett, Martha Nell Smith, Ron Haggart

• Tony Harrison
  Poem: ‘The Gifts of Aphrodite’

• Joseph Roth translated by Michael Hofmann
  The Excavation

• James Wood

  • Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by Michael Henry Heim
  • Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by Michael Henry Heim
  • I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by Paul Wilson
  • Closely Observed Trains by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by Edith Partiger
  • Total Fears: Letters to Dubenka by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by James Naughton

• Dan Jacobson

  • Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Russia by Catherine Merridale

• Peter Mair

  • The Heart Beats on the Left by Oskar Lafontaine, translated by Ronald Taylor

• Linda Nochlin

  • Dora Maar with and without Picasso: A Biography by Mary Ann Caws

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Bo yakasha.

• Jeremy Harding

  • Lennon Remembers by Jann Wenner

• Zoë Heller

  • At Home in the World by Joyce Maynard
  • Dream Catcher by Margaret Salinger

• Les Murray
  Poem: ‘Robert Fergusson Night’

• Barbara Everett
  Unwritten Masterpiece: Dryden’s ‘Hamlet’

• Peter Campbell
  At the Royal Academy: Turner’s watercolours

• Patrick Collinson

  • Common Worship: Services and Prayers for the Church of England

• James Francken

  • Only Human: A Divine Comedy by Jenny Diski

• Stephen Knight
  Poem: ‘The Golden State’

• Elaine Showalter

  • A Dedicated Follower of Fashion by Holly Brubach
  • Fashion Today by Colin McDowell
  • Fashion and Its Social Agendas: Class, Gender and Society in Clothing by Diana Crane
  • Historical Fashion in Detail: The 17th and 18th Centuries by Avril Hart and Susan North
  • Don We Now Our Gay Appalrel: Gay Men’s Dress in the 20th Century by Shuan Cole
  • The Gallery of Fashion by Aileen Ribeiro
  • Giorgio Armani by Germano Celant and Harold Koda

• John Upton
  Diary: Damilola Taylor