Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Gabriele Annan
• Dinah Birch
• Terry Castle
• Gabriel Dover
• Alistair Elliot
• Anne Enright
• Jonathan Fenby
• P.N. Furbank
• Lavinia Greenlaw
• Ian Hamilton
• Anne Hollander
• Robin Holloway
• Fredric Jameson
• R.W. Johnson
• Edward Luttwak
• Lesley Saunders
• Lawrence Stone
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Terry Castle

  • Jane Austen’s Letters edited by Deirde Le Faye

• Letters
  Wayne Templeton, Christopher Hitchens, Alwyn Arkle, Janet Montefiore, J.F. Fuggles, Anon, Garry Goodrow, Roderick Shaw, Michael Dobson, Steven Matthews, Elleke Boehmer, D.J. Richards, Peter Good, Chris Walker, Charles Altieri, Stuart Silverman, Jared Curtis, Carol Landon

• Ian Hamilton
  Four Poems

• Edward Luttwak
  Does the Russian mafia deserve the Nobel prize for economics?

• Fredric Jameson

  • The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin 1910-1940 edited by Gershom Scholem and Theodor Adorno, translated by Manfred Jacobson and Evelyn Jacobson
  • T.W. Adorno/Walter Benjamin: Briefwechsel 1928-40 edited by Henri Lonitz

• Robin Holloway

  • Essays on Music by Hans Keller, edited by Christopher Wintle, Bayan Northcott and Irene Samuel

• Alistair Elliot
  Two Poems

• Michael Wood

  • The History of that Ingenious Gentleman Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, translated by Burton Raffel

• Gabriele Annan

  • Red Earth and Pouring Rain by Vikram Chandra

• Dinah Birch

  • So I Am Glad by A.L. Kennedy
  • Now That You’re Back by A.L. Kennedy

• Anne Hollander

  • The Empire of Fashion: Dressing Modern Democracy by Gilles Lipovetsky, translated by Catherine Porter

• Lawrence Stone

  • The Social Organisation of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States by Edward Laumann, John Gagnon, Robert Michael and Stuart Michaels
  • Sex in America: A Definitive Survey by Robert Michael, John Gagnon, Edward Laumann and Gina Kolata
  • Sexual Behaviour in Britain: The National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Life-Styles by Kaye Wellings, Julia Field, A.M. Johnson and Jane Wadsworth

• Gabriel Dover

  • Signs of Life: The Language and Meanings of DNA by Robert Pollack

• P.N. Furbank

  • Emulation: Making Artists for Revolutionary France by Thomas Crow

• Jonathan Fenby
  Les gages de la peur

• Lavinia Greenlaw
  Poem: ‘Millefiori’

• R.W. Johnson
  Diary

• Anne Enright

  • Meanwhile Back at the Ranch: The Politics of Irish Beef by Fintan O’Toole

• Lesley Saunders
  Poem: ‘Monster’