Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Bayley
• James Clifford
• Jonathan Coe
• J.H. Elliott
• P.N. Furbank
• Jeremy Harding
• R.W. Johnson
• Bernard Knox
• James Lasdun
• Adam Mars-Jones
• Christopher Prendergast
• Lorna Scott Fox
• Stephen Smith
• James Wood
• Ruth Bernard Yeazell
• Hugo Young

Contents

• Adam Mars-Jones

  • The Fermata by Nicholson Baker

• Letters
  Nina Fishman, Ian Hacking, Gerald Moore, Michael Haslam, E. Annie Proulx, P.N. Furbank, Robert Ross, Alan Posener, James Jarrett, John Lennard, Michael Dobson

• Christopher Prendergast

  • Baudelaire by Joanna Richardson

• Jeremy Harding

  • Cigarettes Are Sublime by Richard Klein

• James Lasdun
  Two Poems

• Bernard Knox

  • Franco: A Biography by Paul Preston

• R.W. Johnson

  • Michael Foot by Mervyn Jones

• Hugo Young

  • Europe: The Europe We Need by Leon Brittan

• J.H. Elliott

  • Marsigli’s Europe 1680-1730 by John Stoye

• P.N. Furbank

  • Letters from a Peruvian Woman by Françoisc de Graffigny, translated by David Kornacker

• John Bayley

  • Christina Rossetti: A Biography by Frances Thomas

• Ruth Bernard Yeazell

  • Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics by Isobel Armstrong
  • The Woman Reader: 1837-1914 by Kate Flint

• James Wood

  • Collected Poems 1953-1993 by John Updike
  • Dante’s Drum-Kit by Douglas Dunn
  • Old Men and Comets by D.J. Enright
  • Plato’s Ladder by Stephen Romer
  • The Country at My Shoulder by Moniza Alvi
  • British Subjects by Fred D’Aguiar
  • Night Photograph by Lavinia Greenlaw
  • Nil Nil by Don Paterson
  • Out of Danger by James Fenton

• Jonathan Coe

  • Desperadoes by Joseph O’Connor
  • Resurrection Man by Eoin McNamee
  • Stir-Fry by Emma Donoghue

• Lorna Scott Fox

  • A Trip to the Light Fantastic: Travels with a Mexican circus by Katie Hickman

• Stephen Smith
  Diary

• James Clifford

  • In an Antique Land by Amitav Ghosh