Contents


  • Adam Mars-Jones

    • The Fermata by Nicholson Baker
  • Letters

  • 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
  • John 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