Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Peter Campbell
• Anne Carson
• Terry Castle
• Stefan Collini
• Jenny Diski
• Terry Eagleton
• Richard J. Evans
• Jeremy Harding
• Michael Hofmann
• James Macdonald
• Hilary Mantel
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Tim Parks
• Julie Peters
• Barbara Taylor
• Amanda Vickery
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Jeremy Harding

  • Le mythe gaullien by Sudhir Hazareesingh
  • The General: Charles de Gaulle and the France He Saved by Jonathan Fenby

• Letters
  José de Pietro, Richard Butler, Glen Newey, Gavin Townsend, Alex Johnston, Alan Arikian, Lawrence Hanlon, Oleg Gelikman, Helen Cooper, Robert Jones, Roger Tingle

• Terry Castle

  • Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt by Robert Gottlieb

• Peter Campbell
  At the V&A: The Ballets Russes

• Tim Parks

  • Nemesis by Philip Roth

• Michael Hofmann

  • Old Masters: A Comedy by Thomas Bernhard, translated by Ewald Osers

• Richard J. Evans

  • Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder

• Stefan Collini

  • Securing a Sustainable Future for Higher Education: An Independent Review of Higher Education Funding and Student Finance by Lord Browne et al

• Jenny Diski
  Short Cuts: HRH

• James Macdonald

  • High Financier: The Life and Time of Siegmund Warburg by Niall Ferguson

• Julie Peters

  • Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates by Adrian Johns

• Terry Eagleton

  • The Brontës: Tales of Glass Town, Angria and Gondal edited by Christine Alexander

• Amanda Vickery

  • The Pen and the People: English Letter-Writers 1660-1800 by Susan Whyman
  • Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters by Dena Goodman

• Anne Carson
  Poem: ‘Sonnet Isolate’

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: ‘The Social Network’

• Barbara Taylor

  • Women and Enlightenment in 18th-Century Britain by Karen O’Brien

• Andrew O’Hagan

  • Oprah: A Biography by Kitty Kelley

• Hilary Mantel
  Diary: Meeting the Devil