CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Perry Anderson
• Ronan Bennett
• William Fiennes
• Ian Hamilton
• Jeremy Harding
• Alice Munro
• Colm Tóibín
• Susan Wicks

Contents

• Perry Anderson
  A Belated Encounter retraces his father’s career in the Chinese Customs Service

• Letters
  M.F. Burnyeat, Eva Hoffman, W.G. Runciman, David Mason, Alan Sokal & Jean Bricmont, James Russell, Hugh Macpherson, Jeffry Kaplow, Peter Forbes, David Powell, D.R. Hughes, Roger Bacon, Roy Faibish, Nicholas Jardine, Kym Martindale

• Alice Munro
  Queenie

• Colm Tóibín
  Erasures on the Great Irish Famine

• Jeremy Harding

  • Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa 1880-91 by Charles Nicholl
  • A Season in Hell and Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud, translated by Mark Treharne

• Ronan Bennett
  Marching Orders on the new future of Northern Ireland

• Susan Wicks
  Poem: ‘Statues’

• Ian Hamilton
  Diary watches the World Cup

• William Fiennes

  • The Sopranos by Alan Warner