Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Barrell
• Jenny Diski
• Terence Hawkes
• Christopher Hitchens
• Frank Kermode
• August Kleinzahler
• Thomas Laqueur
• Ross McKibbin
• Dale Peck
• David Runciman
• Tom Shippey
• Charles Simic
• Iain Sinclair
• C.K. Stead
• Margaret Visser
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Ross McKibbin
  If/when Labour gets in …

• Letters
  Perry Anderson, Adam Phillips, Mark Thompson, Neil Forster, Alastair Macaulay, Patrick Parrinder, Robert Creamer, Teresa Harley

• David Runciman
  The Plot to Make Us Stupid

• Christopher Hitchens

  • On the Eve of the Millennium: The Future of Democracy through an Age of Unreason by Conor Cruise O’Brien

• Frank Kermode

  • The Feminisation of American Culture by Ann Douglas
  • Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the Twenties by Ann Douglas

• Charles Simic
  Four Poems

• Thomas Laqueur

  • The Facts of Life: The Creation of Sexual Knowledge in Britain 1650-1950 by Roy Porter and Lesley Hall

• John Barrell

  • The Collected Works of James Hogg. Vol. I: The Shepherd’s Calendar edited by Douglas Mack
  • Collected Works of James Hogg. Vol. II: The Three Perils of Woman edited by David Groves, Antony Hasler and Douglas Mack
  • Collected Works of James Hogg. Vol. III: A Queer Book edited by P.D. Garside

• Iain Sinclair

  • Blake by Peter Ackroyd
  • Collected Edition of William Blake’s Illuminated Books: Vol I: Jerusalem series editor David Bindman, edited by Morton D. Paley
  • Collected Edition of William Blake’s Illuminated Books: Vol. II: Songs of Innocence and Experience series editor David Bindman, edited by Andrew Lincoln
  • Collected Edition of William Blake’s Illuminated Books: Vol III: The Early Illuminated Books series editor David Bindman, edited by Morris Eaves, Robert Essick and Joseph Viscomi
  • Collected Edition of William Blake’s Illuminated Books: Vol. IV: The Continental Prophecies: America, Europe, The Song of Los series editor David Bindman, edited by D.W. Dörbecker
  • Collected Edition of William Blake’s Illuminated Books: Vol. V: Milton, a Poem series editor David Bindman, edited by Robert Essick and Joseph Viscomi
  • Collected Edition of William Blake’s Illuminated Books: Vol. VI: The Urizen Books series editor David Bindman, edited by David Worrall

• Margaret Visser

  • The English, the French and the Oyster by Robert Neild

• Tom Shippey

  • Alfred the Great by David Sturdy
  • King Alfred the Great by Alfred Smyth

• Terence Hawkes

  • The Revolt of Owain Glyn Dŵr by R.R. Davies
  • The Prince’s Choice: A Personal Selection from Shakespeare

• C.K. Stead

  • Letters of Claire Clairmont, Charles Clairmont and Fanny Imlay Godwin edited by Marion Kingston Stocking

• Michael Wood

  • James Whale: A Biography by Mark Gatiss

• Dale Peck

  • Like People in History: A Gay American Epic by Felice Picano
  • How Long Has This Been Going On? by Ethan Mordden
  • The Facts of Life by Patrick Gale
  • Flesh and Blood by Michael Cunningham

• Jenny Diski
  Diary

• August Kleinzahler
  Poem: ‘Snow in North Jersey’