CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• David A. Bell
• Dinah Birch
• Michael Byers
• Peter Campbell
• Jenny Diski
• Conor Gearty
• Rosemary Hill
• Nicholas Jenkins
• Thomas Jones
• Frank Kermode
• August Kleinzahler
• Sarah LeFanu
• James Meek
• Katha Pollitt
• Robin Robertson
• Daniel Soar
• Rory Stewart
• John Sturrock
• Christopher Turner

Contents

• Nicholas Jenkins

  • Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams by Mark Ford

• Letters
  Rupert Forbes, Christopher Small, John Coles, Nick Potter, Keith Flett, Chris Morrissey, Peter Lipton, Harold Dorn, Claude Rawson, Peter Mackridge

• Frank Kermode

  • Half a Life by V.S. Naipaul

• Robin Robertson
  Three Poems

• Jenny Diski

  • Misogyny: The Male Malady by David Gilmore

• Katha Pollitt

  • The Curse: Confronting the Last Taboo, Menstruation by Karen Houppert

• Daniel Soar

  • Schooling by Heather McGowan

• Thomas Jones

  • Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem

• Conor Gearty

  • To Raise up a New Northern Ireland: Articles and Speeches 1998-2000 by David Trimble

• John Sturrock
  Short Cuts: at the Test Match

• Michael Byers
  Too Close to the USA: Canada’s reluctance to stand up for itself

• Christopher Turner

  • Cities for a Small Country by Richard Rogers and Anne Power
  • Urban Futures 21: A Global Agenda for 21st-Century Cities by Peter Hall and Ulrich Pfeiffer

• David A. Bell

  • Napoleon the Novelist by Andy Martin

• James Meek
  Nuremberg Rally, Invasion of Poland, Dunkirk . . .: the never-ending wish to write about the Second World War

  • Ghost MacIndoe by Jonathan Buckley
  • The Twins by Tessa de Loo
  • Riptide by John Lawton
  • The Day We Had Hitler Home by Rodney Hall
  • Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
  • The Fire Fighter by Francis Cottam
  • The Element of Water by Stevie Davies
  • The Bronze Horsewoman by Paullina Simons
  • The Siege by Helen Dunmore

• Rosemary Hill

  • The Buildings of England: A Celebration Compiled to Mark 50 Years of the Pevsner Architectural Guides edited by Simon Bradley and Bridget Cherry

• Sarah LeFanu

  • Gwen John: A Life by Sue Roe

• August Kleinzahler
  Poem: ‘The Old Poet, Dying’

• Dinah Birch

  • Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman by Catherine Robson

• Peter Campbell
  At the Musée Galliera: Children’s clothes

• Rory Stewart
  Diary: walking across Iran