Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Bayley
• Alan Bennett
• Dinah Birch
• Marilyn Butler
• David Cannadine
• Allen Curnow
• Jenny Diski
• Stephen Greenblatt
• Ian Hamilton
• Dave Haslam
• Christopher Hitchens
• Michael Hofmann
• R.W. Johnson
• Frank Kermode
• Ross McKibbin
• Hilary Mantel
• Richard Rorty
• Edward Said
• Stephen Sedley
• Elaine Showalter
• Iain Sinclair
• David Sylvester
• Bernard Williams
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Frank Kermode
  My Mad Captains

• Letters
  Anne Stevenson, Andrew James, Brian Lynch, Nicolas Walter, John O’Callaghan, William Scammell, M.J. McGann, Dennis Wrong, Terry Castle, Audrey Allan, Gerald Long, H. Harvey Wood, Christopher Hill, Stuart Silverman, John Lanchester

• Ross McKibbin

  • The Major Effect edited by Anthony Seldon and Dennis Kavanagh

• Ian Hamilton

  • Major Major: Memories of an Older Brother by Terry Major-Ball

• Christopher Hitchens

  • A Guide to the Correction of Young Gentlemen or, The Successful Administration of Physical Discipline to Males, by Females by a Lady, with illustrations by a Former Pupil

• Allen Curnow
  Poem: ‘The Game of Tag’

• Richard Rorty

  • Dictatorship of Virtue: Multiculturalism and the Battle for America’s Future by Richard Bernstein

• R.W. Johnson
  Enrichissez-Vous!

• Edward Said
  Who is worse?

• Hilary Mantel

  • The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America by John Demos

• Michael Wood

  • Closing Time by Joseph Heller

• John Bayley

  • Evelyn Waugh by Selina Hastings

• Bernard Williams

  • The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics by Martha Nussbaum

• Stephen Sedley

  • Medical Negligence edited by Michael Powers and Nigel Harris

• David Sylvester wrote this preface to the catalogue of the Richard Long exhibition at the São Paolo Bienal: Richard Long asked that it be left out

• Stephen Greenblatt

  • Essays on Renaissance Literature. Vol. II by William Empson, edited by John Haffenden

• Marilyn Butler

  • Lord Byron: The Complete Poetical Works, Vol. VII edited by Jerome McGann
  • The New Oxford Book of Romantic Period Verse edited by Jerome McGann

• David Cannadine

  • Mrs Jordan’s Profession: The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King by Claire Tomalin

• Elaine Showalter

  • No Man’s Land. Vol. III: Letters from the Front by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar

• Michael Hofmann
  Poem: ‘Scylla’

• Dinah Birch

  • The Servant’s Hand: English Fiction from Below by Bruce Robbins

• Michael Hofmann

  • The Life and Lies of Bertolt Brecht by John Fuegi

• Iain Sinclair

  • Frank Zappa: The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play by Ben Watson
  • Her Weasels Wild Returning by J.H. Prynne

• Dave Haslam

  • The Dark Stuff: Selected Writings on Rock Music 1972-93 by Nick Kent

• Alan Bennett
  Diary

• Jenny Diski

  • Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me by Marlon Brando and Robert Lindsey
  • Greta & Cecil by Diana Souhami