Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Peter Campbell
• Alex Clark
• Helen Cooper
• Terry Eagleton
• Ian Gilmour
• David Goldie
• Tony Harrison
• Kathleen Jamie
• Thomas Jones
• Michael Kammen
• Jonathan Lethem
• Edwin Morgan
• John Mullan
• David Runciman
• Francis Spufford
• Colm Tóibín
• Dror Wahrman

Contents

• Terry Eagleton

  • The Forger’s Shadow: How Forgery Changed the Course of Literature by Nick Groom

• Letters
  Christopher Lord, Paul Seabright, Jeremy Harding, Tim Andrews, Lisa Taraki, Yoshida Masayuki, Chang-rae Park, Peter Regent, Giancarlo de Vivo, David Miller, Pete Hutton, David Mason, W.S. Milne, Tony Sharpe, Graham Kemp, Rick Osborn, Paul Stephens, Danny Karlin, Michael Ruse

• David Runciman

  • The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History by Philip Bobbitt
  • Reordering the World: The Long-Term Implications of 11 September edited by Mark Leonard

• Tony Harrison
  Poem: ‘The Grilling’

• John Mullan

  • Laurence Sterne: A Life by Ian Campbell Ross

• Ian Gilmour

  • Ideologies of Conservatism: Conservative Political Ideas in the 20th Century by E.H.H. Green
  • Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World by Margaret Thatcher

• Michael Kammen

  • Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris

• Colm Tóibín

  • Janet & Jackie: The Story of a Mother and Her Daughter, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Jan Pottker
  • Mrs Kennedy: The Missing History of the Kennedy Years by Barbara Leaming

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: A Quick Bout of Bardiness

• Alex Clark

  • The Hunters: Two Short Novels by Claire Messud

• David Goldie

  • New Selected Letters by Hugh MacDiarmid, edited by Dorian Grieve

• Dror Wahrman

  • The Perreaus and Mrs Rudd: Forgery and Betrayal in 18th-Century London by Donna Andrew and Randall McGowen
  • The Smart: The True Story of Margaret Caroline Rudd and the Unfortunate Perreau Brothers by Sarah Bakewell

• Edwin Morgan
  Poem: ‘Louis Kossuth’

• Francis Spufford
  Love that Bird: supersonic

• Helen Cooper

  • Parzival and the Stone from Heaven: A Grail Romance Retold for Our Time by Lindsay Clarke
  • Merlin and the Grail: ‘Joseph of Arimathea’, ‘Merlin’, ‘Perceval’ The Trilogy of Arthurian Romances Attributed to Robert de Boron translated by Nigel Bryant
  • Le Livre du Graal. Tome I: ‘Joseph D’Arimathie’, ‘Merlin’, ‘Les Premiers Faits du Roi Arthur’ edited by Daniel Poirion and Philippe Walter

• Peter Campbell
  In Venice: Tourist Trouble

• Jonathan Lethem
  The Amazing …: My Spidey

  • Spider-Man directed by Sam Raimi

• Kathleen Jamie
  Counting the Cobwebs: The crush of hope