Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Neal Ascherson
• Carol Brightman
• Jenny Diski
• Jerry Fodor
• Thomas Jones
• Frank Kermode
• James Lasdun
• Hilary Mantel
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Jessica Olin
• Nicholas Penny
• Adam Phillips
• Bernard Porter
• Matthew Reynolds
• Frederick Seidel
• Charles Simic
• David Trotter

Contents

• Neal Ascherson
  After the Revolution: In Georgia

• Letters
  Agnes Hodgson, Alan Thomas, David Beer, Jonathan Bate, Ian Birchall, John Sabapathy, Jeremy Bernstein, Malcolm Thick, Michael Carley, Lanny Anderson

• Jenny Diski

  • Goffman's Legacy edited by Javier Treviño

• Charles Simic
  Two Poems

• Frank Kermode

  • Winnicott: Life and Work by Robert Rodman

• Hilary Mantel

  • The Voices of Gemma Galgani: The Life and Afterlife of a Modern Saint by Rudolph Bell and Cristina Mazzoni
  • Saint Thérèse of Lisieux by Kathryn Harrison
  • The Disease of Virgins: Green Sickness, Chlorosis and the Problems of Puberty by Helen King
  • A Wonderful Little Girl: The True Story of Sarah Jacob, the Welsh Fasting Girl by Siân Busby

• Andrew O’Hagan

  • Saint Morrissey by Mark Simpson
  • The Smiths: Songs that Saved Your Life by Simon Goddard

• Adam Phillips

  • Dylan Thomas: A New Life by Andrew Lycett

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: ‘Scouting for Boys’

• Matthew Reynolds

  • Landing Light by Don Paterson

• David Trotter

  • Kafka Goes to the Movies by Hanns Zischler, translated by Susan Gillespie

• Frederick Seidel
  Poem: ‘A White Tiger’

• Jessica Olin

  • The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

• Jerry Fodor

  • Radiant Cool: A Novel Theory of Consciousness by Dan Lloyd

• Nicholas Penny
  At the National Gallery: El Greco

• Bernard Porter

  • Cannabis Britannica: Empire, Trade and Prohibition 1800-1928 by James Mills

• Carol Brightman
  How to get on in the new Iraq: James Baker’s drop-the-debt tour

• James Lasdun
  Diary: Losing in Las Vegas