Cover: Alice Spawls

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Chimamanda Adichie
• Tom Carver
• Christopher Clark
• James Davidson
• Rosemary Hill
• Christian Lorentzen
• Thomas Meaney
• Nick Richardson
• Hugh Roberts
• Adam Shatz
• Adam Smyth
• Christopher Tayler
• Anne Wagner
• Mary-Kay Wilmers
• Michael Wood
• James Wood
• Blair Worden

Contents

• James Wood

  • Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece by Michael Gorra

• Letters
  Brian Rotman, Kirsty Gunn, Marina Warner, Ian Fairlie, Philip Welch, Thomas Diecks

• Christian Lorentzen

  • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace by D.T. Max

• Christopher Clark

  • Heinrich Himmler by Peter Longerich, translated by Jeremy Noakes and Lesley Sharpe

• Thomas Meaney

  • The Tyranny of Greece over Germany by E.M. Butler

• Blair Worden

  • Ben Jonson: A Life by Ian Donaldson
  • The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson edited by David Bevington, Martin Butler and Ian Donaldson

• Rosemary Hill

  • The Pinecone by Jenny Uglow

• Christopher Tayler
  Short Cuts

• Anne Wagner

  • The First Pop Age by Hal Foster

• Adam Shatz

  • The Bride and the Dowry: Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians in the Aftermath of the June 1967 War by Avi Raz

• Hugh Roberts
  Western Recklessness

• James Davidson
  At the Royal Academy: ‘Bronze’

• Chimamanda Adichie

  • There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra by Chinua Achebe

• Adam Smyth

  • A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel by Tom Phillips

• Nick Richardson
  Heathrow to Canary Wharf: Crossrail

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: ‘The Master’

• Mary-Kay Wilmers

  • Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady by Kate Summerscale

• Tom Carver
  Diary: Philby in Beirut