Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Benedict Anderson
• John Barrell
• James Buchan
• Robert Crawford
• David Daiches
• Geoff Dyer
• Christopher Hitchens
• Robert Irwin
• Frank Kermode
• Tom Nairn
• Douglas Oliver
• Tom Paulin
• Adam Phillips
• Matthew Sweeney
• James Wood

Contents

• Christopher Hitchens

  • To Renew America by Newt Gingrich

• Letters
  Terry Castle, Kit McMahon, Marianne Macdonald, Editor, ‘London Review’, James Fletcher, John Simpson, Mona Morstein, Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Matt Hackett, Shirrell Larsen

• Douglas Oliver
  Two Poems

• Frank Kermode

  • F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism by Ian MacKillop

• Adam Phillips

  • Walter Pater: Lover of Strange Souls by Denis Donoghue

• James Wood

  • The Burning Library: Writings on Art, Politics, Sexuality 1969-93 by Edmund White
  • Skinned Alive by Edmund White

• Tom Nairn

  • A Union for Empire: Political Thought and the Union of 1707 edited by John Robertson
  • The Autonomy of Modern Scotland by Lindsay Paterson

• Matthew Sweeney
  Two Poems

• James Buchan

  • John Buchan: The Presbyterian Cavalier by Andrew Lownie

• Benedict Anderson

  • After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist by Clifford Geertz

• John Barrell

  • Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama

• Robert Crawford
  Poem: ‘Male Infertility’

• David Daiches

  • Days of Anger, Days of Hope: A Memoir of the League of American Writers, 1937-1942 by Franklin Folsom

• Geoff Dyer

  • Independence Day by Richard Ford

• Tom Paulin
  Diary

• Robert Irwin

  • Islamic Architecture by Robert Hillenbrand
  • The Art and Architecture of Islam 1250-1800 by Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom
  • The Mosque: History, Architectural Development and Regional Diversity edited by Martin Frishman and Hassan-Uddin Khan
  • Iznik: The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey by Nurhan Atasoy and Julian Raby