CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Andrew Berry
• Robert Brenner
• Jenny Diski
• Michael Fried
• Chalmers Johnson
• Thomas Jones
• Frank Kermode
• Hilary Mantel
• James Meek
• Nicholas Penny
• Seamus Perry
• Andrew Saint
• Charles Simic
• Jean Sprackland
• Theo Tait
• Michael Wood
• Adrian Woolfson

Contents

• Michael Wood

  • The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann edited by Ritchie Robertson
  • Thomas Mann: A Biography by Hermann Kurzke, translated by Leslie Willson

• Letters
  Nick Davis, Graham Kemp, Martin Blyth, Anthony Buckley, Frank Kermode, Peter Robb, Frank Dux, W.S. Milne, Margery Rowe, John Harding, Emer O’Sullivan

• Chalmers Johnson

  • Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg

• Theo Tait

  • Collected Stories by Richard Yates
  • Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
  • The Easter Parade by Richard Yates

• Charles Simic
  Four Poems

• Hilary Mantel
  Memories of Catriona: her memoir concludes

• Robert Brenner
  Towards the Precipice: The Continuing Collapse of the US Economy

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: War Talk

• James Meek

  • Cool Comfort: America’s Romance with Air-Conditioning by M. Ackerman

• Jean Sprackland
  Three Poems

• Jenny Diski

  • The New Biographical Dictionary of Film by David Thomson
  • Nobody’s Perfect: Writings from the ‘New Yorker’ by Anthony Lane
  • Paris Hollywood: Writings on Film by Peter Wollen

• Frank Kermode

  • The Wreck of the 'Abergavenny' by Alethea Hayter

• Andrew Saint
  In Le Havre: The rebuilding of France

• Seamus Perry

  • The Making of the Poets: Byron and Shelley in Their Time by Ian Gilmour
  • Byron and Romanticism by Jerome McGann

• Adrian Woolfson

  • A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram

• Michael Fried
  Poem: ‘The Tunnel’

• Andrew Berry

  • Narrow Roads of Gene Land: The Collected Papers of W.D. Hamilton. Vol. II: The Evolution of Sex by W.D. Hamilton

• Nicholas Penny
  Diary: at the races