Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Mary Beard
• John Burnside
• James Davidson
• Paul Groves
• R.W. Johnson
• Walter McDonald
• Donald MacKenzie
• Hilary Mantel
• Ruth Padel
• Jonathan Parry
• Peter Pulzer
• Jacqueline Rose
• Lorna Scott Fox
• Iain Sinclair

Contents

• Jacqueline Rose

  • Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee

• Letters
  Mark Harris, Barbara Smoker, Irving Louis Horowitz, Grahame White, Harold Teichman, Haig of Bemersyde, D.J. Walsh, Montagu Bream, Douglas Johnson, Ira Katznelson, Mary Lefkowitz, Philip Hoy, Nicolas Walter, Anthony Quinton, Martin Norden, Simon Currie, Tim Sanders, Gordon Kerry, Christopher Hitchens, Keith Flett

• R.W. Johnson

  • Enoch Powell by Robert Shepherd

• Mary Beard

  • Compromising Traditions: The Personal Voice in Classical Scholarship edited by J.P. Hallett and T. van Nortwick

• Ruth Padel
  Putting the Words into Women’s Mouths

• James Davidson

  • Hellenism and Empire: Language, Classicism and Power in the Greek World, AD 50-250 by Simon Swain

• John Burnside
  Two Poems

• Peter Pulzer

  • Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

• Jonathan Parry

  • Disraeli: A Brief Life by Paul Smith

• Donald MacKenzie
  Wasting Assets

• Iain Sinclair

  • Mr Nice: An Autobiography by Howard Marks
  • Pulp Election: The Booker Prize Fix by Carmen St Keeldare

• Lorna Scott Fox
  Diary

• Paul Groves
  Poem: ‘Applied Mathematics’

• Hilary Mantel

  • Flickerbook by Leila Berg

• Walter McDonald
  Poem: ‘Uncle Earl’s Wind River Ranch’