CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Alan Bennett
• Dinah Birch
• Michael Byers
• Robert Crawford
• Kwame Dawes
• Garret FitzGerald
• Frank Kermode
• August Kleinzahler
• Tom Paulin
• C.J. Stone
• John Sturrock
• Colm Tóibín
• Alex de Waal

Contents

• Alan Bennett
  What I did in 1998’s Diary for 1998

• Letters
  Carol Lee, Julian Evans, Jeremy Waldron, Keith Flett, Albert Henderson, Joe Clark, Chris Wheal, Francis Wheen, James Wood, Richard Evans, Alfred Sherman, Bernard Crick

• Tom Paulin
  Poem: ‘Door Poem’

• Dinah Birch

  • Female Fortune: Land, Gender and Authority. The Anne Lister Diaries and Other Writings 1833-36 edited by Jill Liddington

• Colm Tóibín

  • A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition by Gregory Woods

• Garret FitzGerald

  • Documents on Irish Foreign Policy: Vol. I 1919-22 edited by Ronan Fanning

• Frank Kermode

  • Beck at Bay: A Quasi-Novel by John Updike

• John Sturrock

  • Whatever by Michel Houellebecq, translated by Paul Hammond
  • Les Particules élémentaires by Michel Houellebecq

• Michael Byers
  In Pursuit of Pinochet discusses the legal implications of the arrest of Augusto Pinochet in London in October 1998

• Alex de Waal

  • Dunant’s Dream: War, Switzerland and the History of the Red Cross by Caroline Moorehead
  • The Warrior’s Honour: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience by Michael Ignatieff

• Kwame Dawes
  Inheritance: A Fragment

• August Kleinzahler

  • The Poet as Spy: The Life and Wild Times of Basil Bunting by Keith Alldritt

• Robert Crawford

  • The Leaf and the Marble by Iain Crichton Smith

• C.J. Stone
  Diary