Cover: David King

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• David A. Bell
• Amit Chaudhuri
• Stanley Fish
• Anthony Grafton
• Martin Jay
• Jamie McKendrick
• Stephen Mulhall
• Michael Rogin
• Conrad Russell
• Stephen Sedley
• Stephen Smith
• C.K. Stead
• Colm Tóibín
• David Underdown
• Eugen Weber
• Michael Wood
• Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Contents

• Michael Wood

  • Genet by Edmund White

• Letters
  Peter Walker, Nicola Beauman, Pat Kane, John A. Davis, H.StJ.B. Armitage, David Townsend, Robin Nicholson, Linnett Nuttgens

• Stephen Sedley

  • In the Highest Degree Odious: Detention without Trial in Wartime Britain by A.W.B. Simpson

• Colm Tóibín

  • Haughey: His Life and Unlucky Deeds by Bruce Arnold

• Stephen Smith
  Nuclear Smuggling

• Stanley Fish
  Why Literary Criticism is like Virtue

• Ruth Bernard Yeazell

  • Dearest Beloved: The Hawthornes and the Making of the Middle-Class Family by Walter Herbert

• Michael Rogin

  • The Rites of Assent: Transformations in the Symbolic Construction of America by Sacvan Bercovitch
  • Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America by Garry Wills

• David A. Bell

  • The Family Romance of the French Revolution by Lynn Hunt

• Eugen Weber

  • In Search of the Maquis: Rural Resistance in Southern France, 1942-1944 by H.R. Kedward
  • Outwitting the Gestapo by Lucie Aubrac, translated by Konrad Bieber and Betsy Wing

• Jamie McKendrick
  Poem: ‘Loss’

• David Underdown

  • Going to the Wars: The Experience of the British Civil Wars 1638-1651 by Charles Carlton

• Conrad Russell

  • The Personal Rule of Charles I by Kevin Sharpe

• Martin Jay

  • Notes to Liteature: Vols I-II by Theodor Adorno, edited by Rolf Tiedemann, translated by Shierry Weber

• Stephen Mulhall

  • In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years by Karl Popper

• C.K. Stead

  • Remembering Babylon by David Malouf

• Amit Chaudhuri
  Diary

• Anthony Grafton

  • The Portrayal of Love: Botticelli’s ‘Primavera’ and Humanist Culture at the Time of Lorenzo the Magnificent by Charles Dempsey