Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Duncan Campbell
• Terry Eagleton
• Ian Hamilton
• Daniel Johnson
• August Kleinzahler
• Paul Laity
• Sean Maguire
• Adam Phillips
• Richard Rorty
• Andrew Solomon
• A.N. Wilson
• Michael Wood
• James Wood

Contents

• James Wood

  • The Redress of Poetry: Oxford Lectures by Seamus Heaney
  • The Spirit Level by Seamus Heaney

• Letters
  Clive Wilmer, Danny Karlin, Louis Ryan, Dennis Brown, Daniel Adamski, Min Wild, Dominic Rowland, Montagu Bream, Adrian Bowyer, Chistopher Hitchens, Sonu Shamdasani, Harald Prins, Dharani Ghosh, Rex Winsbury, Marc Moldawer, Stephen Medcalf, Michael Rogin, Gabriel Austin, Judith Kazantzis, Elisa Segrave

• Richard Rorty

  • John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism by Alan Ryan

• Terry Eagleton

  • States of Fantasy by Jacqueline Rose

• Ian Hamilton

  • Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life by Max Saunders

• A.N. Wilson

  • Bernard Shaw: The Ascent of the Superman by Sally Peters

• Adam Phillips
  On Interest

• Daniel Johnson

  • The Dear Purchase: A Theme in German Modernism by J.P. Stern

• Andrew Solomon

  • The Romanovs: The Final Chapter by Robert Massie
  • The Fall of the Romanovs: Political Dreams and Personal Struggles in a Time of Revolution by Mark Steinberg and Vladimir Khrustalev

• Michael Wood

  • Fargo directed by Joel Coen
  • Fargo by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen

• Duncan Campbell

  • Bad Business by Dick Hobbs

• August Kleinzahler
  Poem: ‘August 1995’

• Sean Maguire
  Diary

• Paul Laity
  ‘The Sun Says’