Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Perry Anderson
• Dinah Birch
• David Bromwich
• Peter Campbell
• Eric Foner
• Jeremy Harding
• Tony Harrison
• Ian Jackman
• R.W. Johnson
• Thomas Jones
• Frank Kermode
• Adewale Maja-Pearce
• Hilary Mantel
• Jonathan Rée
• Michael Rogin
• Ian Sansom
• Hugo Williams

Contents

• Hilary Mantel

  • Hellish Nell: Last of Britain’s Witches by Malcolm Gaskill

• Letters
  Edward Luttwak, Premen Addy, Peter Godfrey, Frank Kermode, J.S.F. Parker, Julian Preece, David Buckle, Gwynne Nettler, Phillip Brown

• Perry Anderson
  On Sebastiano Timpanaro

• Hugo Williams
  Poem: ‘Dear Room’

• Jonathan Rée

  • Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism by Steven Connor

• Jeremy Harding
  At the British Museum: The African Galleries

• David Bromwich

  • Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx by Stefan Kanfer
  • The Essential Groucho by Groucho Marx, edited by Stefan Kanfer

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Literary Prizes

• Adewale Maja-Pearce
  Onitsha Home Movies: Nigerian films

• Tony Harrison
  Two Poems

• Frank Kermode

  • The War against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 by Martin Amis

• Michael Rogin

  • I May Not Get there with You: The True Martin Luther King Jr by Michael Eric Dyson
  • The Papers of Martin Luther King Jr. Vol. IV: Symbol of the Movement January 1957-December 1958 edited by Clayborne Carson et al

• Eric Foner

  • Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: The Life of Rosa Parks by Douglas Brinkley

• Ian Jackman

  • Joe DiMaggio: The Hero’s Life by Richard Ben Cramer

• Peter Campbell

  • Harems of the Mind: Passages of Western Art and Literature by Ruth Bernard Yeazell

• Ian Sansom

  • The Rotters’ Club by Jonathan Coe

• Dinah Birch

  • Mary George of Allnorthover by Lavinia Greenlaw

• R.W. Johnson
  Diary