Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Bossy
• Colin Burrow
• Peter Campbell
• Allen Curnow
• Terry Eagleton
• Paul Foot
• Wynne Godley
• Mary Hawthorne
• Rosemary Hill
• R.W. Johnson
• Thomas Jones
• Justine Jordan
• David Kennedy
• Frank Kermode
• Alison Light
• Chuma Nwokolo
• Michael Rogin
• Elaine Showalter
• Charles Simic
• Christopher Tayler

Contents

• Wynne Godley
  Saving Masud Khan: psychoanalysis

• Letters
  R.W. Johnson, Michael Neve, Mary-Kay Wilmers, Stuart Griffiths, Caryle Adams, Joseph Nuttgens, J.S.F. Parker, Lucy Penhaligon, C.K. Stead, Neil Forster, Helen Robertson, Margaret Morgan, Nora Crook, J. D.

• Charles Simic
  Three Poems

• John Bossy

  • The Notorious Astrological Physician of London: Works and Days of Simon Forman by Barbara Howard Traister
  • Dr Simon Forman: A Most Notorious Physician by Judith Cook

• Frank Kermode

  • Lectures on Shakespeare by W.H. Auden, edited by Arthur Kirsch

• Colin Burrow

  • Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso, translated by Anthony Esolen

• Chuma Nwokolo
  Diary of a Dead African

• Justine Jordan

  • MotherKind by Jayne Anne Phillips

• Mary Hawthorne

  • The Diaries of Dawn Powell 1931-65 edited by Tim Page

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Anna Karenina, New Puritans, Books on Cooking the Books

• Michael Rogin

  • The Josephine Baker Story by Ean Wood
  • Negrophilia: Avant-Garde Paris and Black Culture in the 1920s by Petrine Archer-Straw

• Allen Curnow
  Poem: ‘A Nice Place on the Riviera’

• David Kennedy

  • Making Americans: Immigration, Race and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy by Desmond King

• R.W. Johnson
  How Mugabe came to power: Wilfred Mhanda

• Paul Foot

  • Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain by George Monbiot
  • No Logo by Naomi Klein

• Elaine Showalter
  At Sundance: The Sundance Film Festival

• Terry Eagleton

  • In Praise of Meekness: Essays on Ethics and Politics by Norberto Bobbio, translated by Teresa Chataway

• Rosemary Hill

  • The Immortal Dinner: A Famous Evening of Genius and Laughter in Literary London, 1817 by Penelope Hughes-Hallett

• Christopher Tayler

  • London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd

• Peter Campbell
  At Tate Modern: Century City

• Alison Light
  Diary: The death of Raphael Samuel