Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Perry Anderson
• Gabriele Annan
• Dinah Birch
• David Bromwich
• Peter Campbell
• Peter Clarke
• Jenny Diski
• Paul Foot
• Fredric Jameson
• R.W. Johnson
• Frank Kermode
• Tom Paulin
• Neil Rollinson
• Elisa Segrave
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Fredric Jameson

  • Ein weites Feld by Günter Grass

• Letters
  Edward Said, John Leslie, Jessica Douglas-Home, Boris Ford, David Craig, Melanie Phillips, Christopher Hawtree, Gerald Long, Paul Kriwaczek, Frederick Barker, Axel Harvey, George Nakely, Karlien van den Beukel, Ronald Harwood and 23 others

• Neil Rollinson
  Two Poems

• Michael Wood

  • The Last Don by Mario Puzo

• Paul Foot

  • Sleaze: Politicians, Private Interests and Public Reaction edited by F.F. Ridley and Alan Doig
  • Changing Trains: The Autobiography of Steven Norris
  • The Quango Debate edited by F.F. Ridley and David Wilson

• Peter Clarke

  • Alec Douglas-Home by D.R. Thorpe

• David Bromwich

  • Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life by Martha Nussbaum

• Gabriele Annan

  • Every Man for Himself by Beryl Bainbridge

• Dinah Birch

  • ‘People for Lunch’ and ‘Spoilt’ by Georgina Hammick
  • The Arizona Game by Georgina Hammick

• Tom Paulin
  Poem: ‘The Wind Dog’

• R.W. Johnson
  On the Way to First Base

• Jenny Diski

  • An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks
  • The Island of the Colour-Blind by Oliver Sacks

• Elisa Segrave
  ‘Did that man touch our car?’

• Peter Campbell

  • Life on the Screen by Sherry Turkle

• Perry Anderson
  Diary

• Frank Kermode

  • The Scent of Dried Roses by Tim Lott