Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Patricia Beer
• Dinah Birch
• Terry Eagleton
• Julian Evans
• Mark Ford
• Rosemary Hill
• Tobias Jones
• Anatoly Naiman
• Jonathan Parry
• Aleksandar Ristovic
• Charles Simic
• Iain Sinclair
• David Trotter
• Susan Watkins
• Landeg White
• A.N. Wilson

Contents

• Terry Eagleton

  • A Critique of Post-Colonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

• Letters
  Alex Callinicos, Amanda Sebestyen, Joseph Nuttgens, Paul Taylor, Daniel Waissbein, Moira Macdonald, Desia Kurtyanek, Jenny Hinton, Robert Ostermann, Leann Davis Alspaugh, Terry Castle

• Aleksandar Ristovic translated by Charles Simic
  Two Poems

• Landeg White

  • Afrocentrism: Mythical Pasts and Imagined Homes by Stephen Howe

• A.N. Wilson

  • Sir Vidia’s Shadow: A Friendship across Five Continents by Paul Theroux

• Rosemary Hill

  • Girlitude: A Memoir of the Fifties and Sixties by Emma Tennant

• David Trotter

  • Institutions of Modernism: Literary Elites and Public Culture by Lawrence Rainey
  • Modernism, Technology and the Body: A Cultural Study by Tim Armstrong
  • Body Ascendant: Modernism and the Physical Imperative by Harold Segel
  • Solid Objects: Modernism and the Test of Production by Douglas Mao

• Iain Sinclair
  All change. This train is cancelled: the Dome

• Susan Watkins

  • Paul Lafargue and the Flowering of French Socialism, 1882-1911 by Leslie Derfler

• Dinah Birch

  • The Journals of George Eliot edited by Margaret Harris and Judith Johnston
  • George Eliot: The Last Victorian by Kathryn Hughes

• Jonathan Parry

  • The Mid-Victorian Generation, 1846-86 by Theodore Hoppen

• Mark Ford

  • Prometheus by Tony Harrison

• Patricia Beer

  • Pushkin by Elizabeth Feinstein

• Anatoly Naiman
  Memories of Brodsky: Akhmatova, Brodsky and Me

• Julian Evans

  • Trois Chants Funébres pour le Kosovo by Ismail Kadare, translated by Jusuf Vrioni

• Tobias Jones
  Diary: San Giovanni Rotondo