Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• David A. Bell
• Peter Campbell
• Jenny Diski
• Raymond Friel
• David Haglund
• David Halperin
• Tony Harrison
• Michael Hofmann
• Leofranc Holford-Strevens
• R.W. Johnson
• Thomas Jones
• Donald MacKenzie
• James Meek
• Adam Phillips
• Robert Pinsky
• Lorna Scott Fox
• Art Spiegelman
• Christopher Tayler
• Miles Taylor
• Slavoj Žižek

Contents

• Slavoj Žižek
  Bring me my Philips Mental Jacket: Improve Your Performance!

• Letters
  Fenella Roberts, Keith Flett, Bradley Winterton, Linda Hart, Sarah Whittall, Fiona Pitt-Kethley, David Simpson, Justin Horton, Joseph Diamante

• Donald MacKenzie

  • Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego and the Death of Enron by Robert Bryce
  • Enron: The Rise and Fall by Loren Fox

• Robert Pinsky
  Poem: ‘In Defence of Allusion’

• Adam Phillips

  • The Short Sharp Life of T.E. Hulme by Robert Ferguson
  • Paranoid Modernism: Literary Experiment, Psychosis and the Professionalisation of English Society by David Trotter

• Jenny Diski

  • The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania: Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps 1939-44 by Herman Kruk, edited by Benjamin Harshav, translated by Barbara Harshav

• Leofranc Holford-Strevens

  • Bilingualism and the Latin Language by J.N. Adams

• Raymond Friel
  Poem: ‘On Chesil Beach’

• James Meek

  • Rain by Brian Cathcart

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: The Matrix

• R.W. Johnson

  • Eden: The Life and Times of Anthony Eden, First Earl of Avon 1897-1977 by D.R. Thorpe
  • The Macmillan Diaries: The Cabinet Years 1950-57 edited by Peter Catterall

• Art Spiegelman
  ‘In the Shadow of No Towers’, episode 7: the comic continues

• Miles Taylor

  • George Lansbury: At the Heart of Old Labour by John Shepherd

• Lorna Scott Fox

  • Victor Serge: The Course Is Set on Hope by Susan Weissman

• Peter Campbell
  In the City: public sculpture

• David A. Bell

  • Calvet’s Web: Enlightenment and the Republic of Letters in 18th-Century France by L.W.B. Brockliss
  • The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon by Colin Jones

• Michael Hofmann

  • Collected Poems by Hugo Williams

• David Halperin

  • At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill

• Tony Harrison
  Poem: ‘PM am’

• Christopher Tayler

  • Pattern Recognition by William Gibson

• David Haglund
  Diary: Mormons