Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Jonathan Aaron
• Alan Bennett
• Peter Campbell
• Wendy Doniger
• James Francken
• Ian Glynn
• Stephen Greenblatt
• Thomas Jones
• India Knight
• Adam Kuper
• James Lasdun
• Patrick McGuinness
• James Meek
• R.T. Murphy
• Edward Said
• Iain Sinclair
• Daniel Soar
• Barbara Taylor
• James Wood

Contents

• Barbara Taylor

  • Inventing Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage by Elaine Showalter

• Letters
  Geoffrey Bucknell, Sameera Hartsough, Lynsay Gott, Rod Edmond, Editor, ‘London Review’, David Craig, Paul Seabright, Elise Godsell, Jeremy Newmark, Howard Cooper, Thomas Laqueur, Roger Stuveras, A.W.B. Simpson, John Owen, Brian Bosworth, Liz Willis, J.F. Darycott, Jerome Shipman, Michael Dobson, Andrew Ross

• Wendy Doniger

  • The Mirror: A History by Sabine Melchior-Bonnet, translated by Katharine Jewett

• Edward Said
  Is Israel more secure now?: Israel’s Dead End

• James Meek
  Where does the rubble end and the ground begin?: in Afghanistan

• Alan Bennett
  Seeing Stars: film actors

• Stephen Greenblatt
  In Memory of Michael Rogin

• James Wood

  • Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo, edited by William Weaver
  • Memoir of Italo Svevo by Livia Veneziani Svevo, translated by Isabel Quigly
  • Emilio's Carnival by Italo Svevo, translated by Beth Archer Brombert

• James Lasdun
  Poem: ‘The Skaters’

• James Francken
  Short Cuts: The big book prizes

• Daniel Soar

  • Nightmare Town: Stories by Dashiell Hammett, edited by Kirby McCauley and Martin Greenberg et al
  • Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett 1921-60 edited by Richard Layman and Julie Rivett

• Thomas Jones

  • Sister Crazy by Emma Richler

• India Knight

  • The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family by Mary Lovell
  • Nancy Mitford: A Memoir by Harold Acton

• Adam Kuper

  • Storyteller: The Many Lives of Laurens van der Post by J.D.F. Jones

• Patrick McGuinness

  • Electric Light by Seamus Heaney
  • Seamus Heaney in Conversation with Karl Miller by Karl Miller

• Ian Glynn

  • The Quest for Immortality: Science at the Frontiers of Ageing by S. Jay Olshansky and Bruce A. Carnes

• Jonathan Aaron
  Poem: ‘An Instance of Necromancy’

• R.T. Murphy

  • The Making of Modern Japan by Marius Jansen

• Peter Campbell
  At the Imperial War Museum: Agitprop

• Iain Sinclair
  At Bluewater