Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Alan Bennett
• David Blackbourn
• Amit Chaudhuri
• Jenny Diski
• Eamon Duffy
• Anne Enright
• Ian Hacking
• Frank Kermode
• John Kerrigan
• John Lanchester
• Bernard O’Donoghue
• John Tranter
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Alan Bennett
  What I did in 1996

• Letters
  Jacob Mendlovic, Israel Shahak, David Lodge, Patrick David Connors, Jerrold Seigel, Richard Boston

• Bernard O’Donoghue
  Poem: ‘Femmer’

• John Tranter
  Poem: ‘Chinese Poem, after Mark Ford’

• Ian Hacking

  • On Blindness: Letters between Bryan Magee and Martin Milligan

• John Lanchester

  • The New Fowler’s Modern English Usage edited by R.W. Burchfield

• Jenny Diski
  A Feeling for Ice

• Frank Kermode

  • Judas: Betrayer or Friend of Jesus by William Klassen

• Eamon Duffy

  • Westminster Abbey and the Plantagenets: Kingship and the Representation of Power 1200-1400 by Paul Binski

• David Blackbourn

  • The Politics of the Unpolitical: German Writers and the Problem of Power, 1770-1871 by Gordon A. Craig

• Amit Chaudhuri

  • Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura 1922-92 by Shahid Amin

• John Kerrigan

  • The Dow Low Drop: New and Selected Poems by Roy Fisher

• Michael Wood

  • Diaries. Vol. I: 1939-60 by Christopher Isherwood, edited by Katherine Bucknell

• Anne Enright
  Diary