Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Mary Beard
• Anita Brookner
• James Buchan
• Peter Campbell
• Catriona Crowe
• James Davidson
• Julian Evans
• Penelope Fitzgerald
• Jorie Graham
• Terence Hawkes
• Christopher Hitchens
• Zachary Leader
• Edward Luttwak
• Charles Simic
• Emma Tennant
• Hugo Williams
• Gaby Wood

Contents

• James Davidson

  • Homer in English edited by George Steiner
  • Homer’s ‘Iliad’ translated by Stanley Lombardo
  • Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ translated by Robert Fagles

• Letters
  Peter Stollery, Michiel Heyns, Lawrence Irvine Iles, Allen Esterson, John Rivers, Premen Addy, Rosalind Cressy, Ariadne van de Ven, Gerald Moore, Steven Misander, Stuart Pierson

• Jorie Graham
  Poem: ‘Which but for Vacancy’

• James Buchan
  A Matter of War and Peace

• Christopher Hitchens

  • Whittaker Chambers: A Biography by Sam Tanenhaus

• Charles Simic

  • The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia by Tim Judah

• Gaby Wood

  • Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell by Deborah Solomon

• Terence Hawkes

  • The Culture of the Copy: Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles by Hillel Schwartz

• Hugo Williams
  Seven Poems

• Mary Beard

  • The Roy Strong Diaries 1967-87

• Emma Tennant
  A Visit to My Uncle

• Penelope Fitzgerald

  • The Scholar Gypsy: The Quest for a Family Secret by Anthony Sampson

• Anita Brookner

  • Colette by Claude Francis and Fernande Gontier

• Catriona Crowe

  • The Bend for Home by Dermot Healy

• Edward Luttwak
  The Road to Paraguay

• Zachary Leader

  • My Aces, My Faults by Nick Bollettieri and Dick Schaap

• Julian Evans
  Diary

• Peter Campbell

  • Naked to the Bone: Medical Imaging in the 20th Century by Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles