Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Peter Campbell
• Amit Chaudhuri
• Martin Clark
• Simon Collier
• Helen Cooper
• Richard Davenport-Hines
• R.W. Davies
• Paul Durcan
• Richard Fortey
• Robin Fox
• Matthew Hughes
• Richard Jenkyns
• Thomas Jones
• Jeremy Noel-Tod
• Richard Sanger
• Ian Sansom
• John Sturrock
• Jeremy Waldron
• William Wootten

Contents

• John Sturrock

  • André Malraux: Une Vie by Olivier Todd

• Letters
  Alistair Elliot, Editor, ‘London Review’, Tam and Kathleen Dalyell, George Schlesinger, Kevin Kopelson, Peter Riley, Jon Newman, Mick McManus, Elaine Windrich, R.W. Johnson, Patrick Hughes

• Martin Clark

  • L'Informatore: Silone, i Comunisti e la polizia by Dario Biocca and Mauro Canali

• R.W. Davies

  • Midnight Diaries by Boris Yeltsin, translated by Catherine Fitzpatrick
  • Post-Soviet Russia: A Journey through the Yeltsin Era by Roy Medvedev, translated by George Shriver
  • Zagadka Putina by Roy Medvedev

• Jeremy Waldron

  • Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality by Ronald Dworkin

• Helen Cooper

  • The Idolatrous Eye: Iconoclasm and Theatre in Early Modern England by Michael O'Connell

• Paul Durcan
  Poem: ‘The 24,000 Islands of Stockholm’

• Richard Davenport-Hines

  • Letters from Prison by the Marquis de Sade, translated by Richard Seaver
  • De Sade's Valet by Nikolaj Frobenius, translated by Tom Geddes

• Jeremy Noel-Tod

  • Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
  • Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
  • A View of Delft: Vermeer Then and Now by Anthony Bailey
  • Vermeer's Camera by Philip Steadman

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Telly

• Ian Sansom

  • One for My Baby by Tony Parsons
  • How to Be Good by Nick Hornby
  • Little Green Man by Simon Armitage

• Amit Chaudhuri
  A Bottle of Ink, a Pen and a Blotter: R.K. Narayan

• William Wootten

  • The Collected Poems of Vernon Watkins

• Robin Fox

  • In the Arms of Africa: The Life of Colin Turnbull by Roy Richard Grinker

• Peter Campbell
  At Tate Britain: Michael Andrews

• Richard Fortey

  • The Map that Changed the World: The Tale of William Smith and the Birth of a Science by Simon Winchester

• Richard Jenkyns

  • A History of Greece: From the Time of Solon to 403 BC by George Grote, edited by J.M. Mitchell and M.O.B. Caspari

• Simon Collier

  • Liberators: Latin America’s Struggle for Independence, 1810-30 by Robert Harvey

• Richard Sanger
  Poem: ‘Monument’

• Matthew Hughes
  The Man Who Killed Hammarskjöld?