Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Mary Beard
• John Bossy
• John Burnside
• Peter Campbell
• Margaret Anne Doody
• James Fletcher
• Fredric Jameson
• Frank Kermode
• John Lloyd
• Hilary Mantel
• Rob Nixon
• Lorna Sage
• Raymond Tallis
• Hugo Williams
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Lorna Sage

  • Remake by Christine Brooke-Rose

• Letters
  Julia Tennyson, James Wood, David Edgerton, K.W.C. Sinclair-Loutit, Brendan MacCarthy, Margit Malmstrom

• Margaret Anne Doody

  • Delphine by Germaine de Staël, translated by Avriel Goldberger

• John Burnside
  Six Poems

• Frank Kermode

  • Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude by Ray Monk

• John Lloyd
  Aphrodite bends over Stalin

• Hugo Williams
  Five Poems

• Fredric Jameson

  • The Invisible in Architecture edited by Ole Bouman and Roemer van Toorn
  • The Classical Vernacular: Architectural Principles in an Age of Nihilism by Roger Scruton

• Peter Campbell

  • Oceanic Art by Nicholas Thomas

• Rob Nixon

  • A Month and a Day: A Detention Diary by Ken Saro-Wiwa

• John Bossy

  • The New Oxford History of England. Vol. II: The Later Tudors by Penry Williams

• James Fletcher

  • The Messiaen Companion edited by Peter Hill
  • Olivier Messiaen: Music and Colour. Conversations with Claude Samuel translated by Thomas Glasow

• Hilary Mantel

  • Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson

• Michael Wood

  • Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oë, translated by Paul St John Mackintosh and Maki Sugiyama
  • A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oë, translated by John Nathan
  • Hiroshima Notes by Kenzaburo Oë, translated by David Swain and Toshi Yonezawa

• Mary Beard
  Diary

• Raymond Tallis

  • Crossing Frontiers: Gerontology Emerges as a Science by Andrew Achenbaum