Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Julian Barnes
• John Burnside
• Susan Eilenberg
• Misha Glenny
• David Hansen
• August Kleinzahler
• Jonathan Littell
• Tristan McConnell
• Benjamin Markovits
• Blake Morrison
• Ferdinand Mount
• David Runciman
• Steven Shapin
• Daniel Soar
• C.K. Stead
• Jonathon Tomlinson
• Tony Wood
• Blair Worden

Contents

• Susan Eilenberg

  • Lives like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s Feuds by Lyndall Gordon
  • Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries by Helen Vendler

• Letters
  David Elstein, David Seddon, R.W. Johnson, Kate Pahl, Michael Holroyd, Dai George, Anthony Buckley, Clifton Hawkins, Marielle Risse

• C.K. Stead
  Poem: ‘The Gift’

• Jonathan Littell
  Infisal! Infisal! Infisal!: A Journey in South Sudan

• Tristan McConnell
  In Abyei

• Steven Shapin

  • A Modern History of the Stomach: Gastric Illness, Medicine and British Society, 1800-1950 by Ian Miller

• John Burnside
  Two Poems

• Ferdinand Mount

  • Dare to Stand Alone: The Story of Charles Bradlaugh, Atheist and Republican by Bryan Niblett

• David Hansen
  At the Met: Richard Serra

• Blair Worden

  • Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War by John Stubbs

• Daniel Soar
  Short Cuts: The Bourne Analogy

• Julian Barnes

  • Nature Stories by Jules Renard, translated by Douglas Parmée

• Misha Glenny

  • Mafias on the Move: How Organised Crime Conquers New Territories by Federico Varese

• David Runciman

  • Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won by Tobias Moskowitz and Jon Wertheim

• Tony Wood

  • The Ice Trilogy by Vladimir Sorokin, translated by Jamey Gambrell
  • Day of the Oprichnik by Vladimir Sorokin

• Benjamin Markovits

  • Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Susan Bernofsky

• Blake Morrison

  • The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp by W.H. Davies

• August Kleinzahler
  Poem: ‘Sports Wrap’

• Jonathon Tomlinson
  Diary: In the Surgery