Cover: Nicolas Selles

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Gordon Burn
• Jenny Diski
• Ian Hacking
• Ian Hamilton
• Geoffrey Hawthorn
• Christopher Hitchens
• John Lloyd
• Ross McKibbin
• Victor Mallet
• Hilary Mantel
• Patrick Parrinder
• Alan Ryan
• Jon Stallworthy
• John Sutherland
• Anthony Thwaite
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Ross McKibbin
  The Sense of an Ending

• Letters
  Nicholas Spice, Emmy Misser, Patrick Parrinder, Angus Calder, Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Bernard Richards, Boris Ford, Alan Ryan, Editor, ‘London Review’

• Ian Hacking

  • Understanding the present: Science and the Soul of Modern Man by Bryan Appleyard

• Jon Stallworthy
  Poem: ‘From the Life’

• Alan Ryan

  • The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell. Vol. I: The Private Years, 1884-1914 edited by Nicholas Griffin

• John Lloyd
  Comrades in Monetarism

• Victor Mallet

  • The Tragedy of Cambodian History: Politics, War and Revolution since 1945 by David Chandler

• John Sutherland
  The Fire This Time

• Geoffrey Hawthorn

  • Forgotten Fatherland: The Search for Elisabeth Nietzsche by Ben Macintyre

• Hilary Mantel

  • Théroigne de Méricourt: A Melancholic Woman during the French Revolution by Elisabeth Roudinesco, translated by Martin Thom
  • Women and the Limits of Citizenship in the French Revolution by Olwen Hufton

• Anthony Thwaite
  Poem: ‘Snakes (Virginia, 1940)’

• Michael Wood

  • Barcelona by Robert Hughes
  • Barcelonas by Manuel Vazquez Montalban, translated by Andrew Robinson
  • Cities of Spain by David Gilmour
  • Red City, Blue Period: Social Movements in Picasso’s Barcelona by Temma Kaplan

• Ian Hamilton

  • Damon Runyon: A Life by Jimmy Breslin

• Gordon Burn

  • Outerbridge Reach by Robert Stone

• Jenny Diski
  Diary

• Patrick Parrinder

  • Underworld by Peter Conrad
  • A Case of Curiosities by Allen Kurzweil
  • Rotten Times by Paul Micou
  • The Republic of Love by Carol Shields

• Christopher Hitchens

  • The Russian Girl by Kingsley Amis