Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Peter Clarke
• Jonathan Coe
• David Edgar
• Jorie Graham
• Jeremy Harding
• Frank Kermode
• John Lanchester
• Tom Nairn
• Patrick Parrinder
• J.G.A. Pocock
• Conrad Russell
• Ian Sansom
• Tom Shippey
• E.S. Turner
• Marina Warner

Contents

• Frank Kermode

  • W.B. Yeats: A Life. Vol. I: The Apprentice Mage by R.F. Foster

• Letters
  Terence Chapman, Esther Kinsky, Mark Bitton, Barbara Preston, Montagu Bream, Eric Foner, Ted Rushton, Mary Lefkowitz, Wylie Horn, Roland John, Aidan Campbell, Patrick Miles, Donald Rayfield, P.R. Bonnett

• Jorie Graham
  Poem: ‘Thinking’

• Tom Nairn

  • Republics, Nations and Tribes by Martin Thom

• David Edgar

  • Henrik Ibsen by Robert Ferguson

• J.G.A. Pocock

  • Making Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders from Polynesian Settlement to the End of the 19th Century by James Belich

• Peter Clarke

  • Why Vote Conservative? by David Willetts
  • Why Vote Liberal Democrat? by William Wallace
  • Why Vote Labour? by Tony Wright

• Conrad Russell
  Leave it to the teachers

• Tom Shippey

  • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle edited and translated by M.J. Swanton

• E.S. Turner

  • Forties Fashion and the New Look by Colin McDowell

• Marina Warner

  • The Nature of Blood by Caryl Phillips

• Jonathan Coe

  • The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald, translated by Michael Hulse

• Patrick Parrinder

  • The Doll by Boleslaw Prus, translated by David Welsh

• Ian Sansom

  • Moon Country: Further Reports from Iceland by Simon Armitage and Glyn Maxwell

• Jeremy Harding

  • The Ends of the Earth by Robert Kaplan

• John Lanchester
  Diary