CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Alan Bennett
• Justine Burley
• Allen Curnow
• Jenny Diski
• Paul Foot
• Jeremy Harding
• Kathleen Jamie
• John Leslie
• Nicholas Penny
• Lawrence Rainey
• Lorna Sage
• Alexander Stille
• Marina Warner
• James Wood
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Alan Bennett
  Notes on 1997: Me Looking like a Flustered Turkey

• Letters
  John Sutherland, Fintan O’Toole, Sue Rickard, Harry Gilonis, Stephen Lane, Mick Hume, Ben Riley, Philip Rush, Kenyon Alexander, Fred Sedgwick

• Allen Curnow
  Poem: ‘Ten Steps to the Sea’

• Marina Warner
  Peroxide Mug-Shot writes about women who kill children

• Nicholas Penny

  • Victorian Fairy Painting edited by Jane Martineau

• James Wood

  • Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature by Iris Murdoch

• Lorna Sage

  • The Key of the Tower by Gilbert Adair

• Lawrence Rainey

  • Otto Milioni di Cartoline per il Duce by Enrico Sturani

• Kathleen Jamie
  Poem: ‘Interregnum’

• Alexander Stille

  • Modern Italy: A Political History by Denis Mack Smith

• Paul Foot

  • The Liar: The Fall of Jonathan Aitken by Luke Harding and David Leigh

• John Leslie

  • Before the Beginning by Martin Rees
  • The Life of the Cosmos by Lee Smolin

• Jeremy Harding

  • Kenya by Hugh Finlay and Geoff Crowther
  • Borneo by Robert Pelton Young
  • Asia's Top Dive Sites edited by Fiona Nichols and Michael Stachels
  • South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland by Jon Murray et al
  • Southern Africa by Richard Cox
  • The World's Most Dangerous Places by Robert Pelton Young
  • South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland by Barbara McCrea et al
  • The Good Honeymoon Guide by Lucy Horne
  • Amnesty International Report 1997
  • Morocco by Barnaby Rogerson

• Justine Burley

  • Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
  • Dark Shadows Falling by Joe Simpson

• Jenny Diski
  Diary looks up new words

• Michael Wood