Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Terry Eagleton
• Charles Glass
• Alan Hollinghurst
• Stephen Holmes
• Philip Kitcher
• Jamie McKendrick
• James Meek
• Nicholas Penny
• Tim Radford
• Lawrence Rainey
• Charles Simic
• Iain Sinclair
• Slavoj Žižek

Contents

• Slavoj Žižek
  ‘You May!’: the post-modern superego

• Letters
  Ferdinand Mount, John Sturrock, Duncan Wu, Michael Holroyd, Alan Rusbridger, Carol Lee, Alan Myers, Robert Bell, Tony Oujangwe, Hans Koning, Colin Armstrong

• Terry Eagleton

  • Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin by Richard Davenport-Hines

• Iain Sinclair

  • Eye of the Cricket by James Sallis

• Stephen Holmes

  • Sexual McCarthyism: Clinton, Starr and the Emerging Constitutional Crisis by Alan Dershowitz
  • The Case against Lameduck Impeachment by Bruce Ackerman

• Charles Glass

  • Arafat: From Defender to Dictato by Said Aburish

• Jamie McKendrick
  Poem: ‘Beyond’

• Tim Radford

  • Edison: A Life of Invention by Paul Israel

• Lawrence Rainey
  Between Mussolini and Me: Pound’s Fascism

• Charles Simic

  • Collected Poems of Vasko Popa translated by Anne Pennington

• Nicholas Penny

  • Sotheby’s : Bidding for Class by Robert Lacey
  • Sotheby’s : Inside Story by Peter Watson

• James Meek

  • Lenin's Embalmers by Ilya Zbarsky and Samuel Hutchinson

• Philip Kitcher

  • Life’s Other Secret: The New Mathematics of the Living World by Ian Stewart

• Alan Hollinghurst
  Diary