Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Gabriele Annan
• Julian Bell
• John Burnside
• Peter Campbell
• Jon Cannon
• Stefan Collini
• Ruth Franklin
• Thomas Jones
• Zachary Leader
• Benjamin Markovits
• John Mullan
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Christopher Prendergast
• Edward Said
• Diana Souhami
• John Sutherland
• James Wolcott
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Andrew O’Hagan

  • The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
  • Ghost World directed by Terry Zwigoff
  • Storytelling directed by Todd Solondz

• Letters
  Jon Snow, Ian Birchall, Richard Cummings, Paul Hillier, H. Sivyer, David Simpson, Mark Andrews, John Roberts, Trevor Kerslake, Jonathan Williams, Richard Maxwell, Roderick A. Jacobs, Gillian Darley

• Zachary Leader

  • John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead

• Michael Wood
  Just one of those ends: Apocalypse Regained

  • Apocalypse Now Redux directed by Francis Ford Coppola
  • Marlon Brando by Patricia Bosworth

• James Wolcott

  • The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan edited by John Lahr

• John Mullan

  • Thomas Gray: A Life by Robert Mack

• Edward Said
  My Guru: Elegy for Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Ulysses vs. Ulysses

• Julian Bell

  • Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters by David Hockney

• Diana Souhami

  • Loving Picasso: The Private Journal of Fernande Olivier edited by Marilyn McCully, translated by Christine Baker

• Christopher Prendergast

  • Flaubert: A Life by Geoffrey Wall

• Benjamin Markovits

  • Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro

• John Sutherland

  • Red Dog by Louis de Bernières
  • Sunday Morning at the Centre of the World by Louis de Bernières

• Gabriele Annan

  • No Saints or Angels by Ivan Klíma, translated by Gerald Turner

• Ruth Franklin

  • Theodor Fontane: Literature and History in the Bismarck Reich by Gordon A. Craig

• John Burnside
  Poem: ‘The Inner Ear’

• Stefan Collini

  • The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes by Jonathan Rose

• Peter Campbell
  At the V&A: Among the Artefacts

• Jon Cannon
  Diary: in Chengdu, China