Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Stephen Burt
• Mary Ann Caws
• Paul Driver
• Modris Eksteins
• Denis Feeney
• Mark Ford
• Richard Gott
• Kathleen Jamie
• Christopher Kelly
• Megan Marshall
• Pankaj Mishra
• James Morone
• Paul Myerscough
• Hugh Pennington
• Bernard Porter
• Emily Wilson
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Pankaj Mishra

  • The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anti-Colonial Nationalism by Erez Manela

• Letters
  Karon Monaghan, Jenny Chamier Grove, Malcolm Deas, Robert Steele, Ian Birchall, Chris Sinha, Eric Hobsbawm, Eric Dickens, Michael Hill, Martin Ward, Ted McFadyen, Hugh Wright, Natalie Matter

• Bernard Porter

  • Fusiliers: Eight Years with the Redcoats in America by Mark Urban
  • 1812: War with America by Jon Latimer

• Kathleen Jamie
  Poem: ‘Glamourie’

• Denis Feeney

  • The Roman Triumph by Mary Beard

• Christopher Kelly

  • City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish: Greek Lives in Roman Egypt by Peter Parsons

• Paul Driver

  • Robert Schumann: Life and Death of a Musician by John Worthen
  • The Cambridge Companion to Schumann edited by Beate Perrey
  • Schumann’s Late Style by Laura Tunbridge

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: ‘No Country for Old Men’

  • No Country for Old Men directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

• Megan Marshall

  • Poe: A Life Cut Short by Peter Ackroyd

• Stephen Burt

  • The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley: 1945-75
  • The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley: 1975-2005
  • On Earth: Last Poems and an Essay by Robert Creeley
  • Selected Poems: 1945-2005 by Robert Creeley, edited by Benjamin Friedlander

• Hugh Pennington
  Short Cuts: Bluetongue

• Modris Eksteins

  • Modernism: The Lure of Heresy from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond by Peter Gay

• Mark Ford
  Poem: ‘Signs of the Times’

• Mary Ann Caws

  • I Am a Beautiful Monster by Francis Picabia, translated by Marc Lowenthal
  • The Artwork Caught by the Tail: Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris by George Baker

• Emily Wilson

  • Plautine Elements in Plautus by Eduard Fraenkel, translated by Tomas Drevikovsky and Frances Muecke
  • Plautus: ‘Asinaria – The One about the Asses’ translated by John Henderson
  • Terence: The Comedies translated by Peter Brown
  • Terence: Comedies translated by Frederick Clayton

• Paul Myerscough
  At Christie’s: Buying Art

• James Morone

  • A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan by Michael Kazin

• Richard Gott
  Diary: Paraguayan Power