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CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Benedict Anderson
• John Bayley
• Susannah Clapp
• Michael Dibdin
• D.A.N. Jones
• Danny Karlin
• Frank Kermode
• Hugh Lloyd-Jones
• Mary Midgley
• Karl Miller
• Walter Nash
• David Rieff
• C.H. Roberts
• Tom Shippey
• Matt Simpson
• Susan Sontag
• Francis Spufford

Contents

• Benedict Anderson
  Old Corruption

• Letters
  A.N. Wilson, Barbara Everett, Judith Cook, David Stafford-Clark

• Karl Miller

  • Another Day of Life by Ryszard Kapuściński

• Danny Karlin

  • No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan by Robert Shelton

• Susan Sontag
  Dancer and the Dance

• Mary Midgley

  • Adam’s Task: Calling animals by name by Vicki Hearne

• Tom Shippey

  • Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction by Brian Aldiss and David Wingrove
  • Eon by Greg Bear
  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts by Douglas Adams
  • Humpty Dumpty in Oakland by Philip K. Dick
  • The Watcher by Jane Palmer
  • I, Vampire by Jody Scott

• Michael Dibdin

  • Slaves of New York by Tama Janowitz

• Frank Kermode

  • The Enchanter by Vladimir Nabokov, translated by Dmitri Nabokov

• Francis Spufford

  • The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway

• John Bayley

  • Jane Austen by Tony Tanner

• Susannah Clapp

  • Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography by Merryn Williams
  • Chronicles of Carlingford: The Perpetual Curate by Mrs Oliphant
  • Chronicles of Carlingford: Salem Chapel by Mrs Oliphant
  • Chronicles of Carlingford: The Rector by Mrs Oliphant

• Hugh Lloyd-Jones

  • English Classical Scholarship: Historical Reflections on Bentley, Porson and Housman by C.O. Brink
  • Latin Poets and Roman Life by Jasper Griffin
  • The Mirror of Myth: Classical Themes and Variations by Jasper Griffin

• Matt Simpson
  Two Poems

• C.H. Roberts

  • Pagans and Christians by Robin Lane Fox

• David Rieff
  Diary

• Walter Nash

  • The Red Men by Patrick McGinley
  • Chat Show by Terence de Vere White
  • Leaden Wings by Zhang Jie, translated by Gladys Yang
  • Russian Novel by Edward Kuznetsov, translated by Jennifer Bradshaw
  • Richard Robertovich by Mark Frankland

• D.A.N. Jones

  • The Progress of Love by Alice Munro
  • Ruth by Jeremy Cooper