Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Gabriele Annan
• Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen
• Mark Ford
• Audrey Gillan
• Richard Gott
• Frank Kermode
• John Kerrigan
• Colin Kidd
• Lynne Mastnak
• Ruth Padel
• Tim Parks
• Paul Seabright
• Anna Vaux
• Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Contents

• Ruth Bernard Yeazell

  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment by Isobel Grundy

• Letters
  David Sylvester, Neil Forster, G.A. Parish, George Braddon, Richard Davenport-Hines, Doug Smith, Keith Flett, Simon Cockshutt, Mat Pires, Emma Tennant, Arif Azad, Stephen Kellie, Alan Gabbey, Seamus Perry, Lewis Smith, David Cesarani, John Crombie, Ivor Potts, Katharine Weber

• Mark Ford
  Two Poems

• Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen

  • Mad Travellers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illnesses by Ian Hacking

• Lynne Mastnak
  ‘Why are you leaving?’: a child psychiatrist, records the daily round in Kosovo before and since the bombing

• Audrey Gillan
  What’s the story?: trying to find the evidence for mass atrocities in Kosovo

• Richard Gott

  • Rogoberta Menchú and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans by David Stoll

• John Kerrigan

  • Opened Ground: Poems 1966-96 by Seamus Heaney
  • The Poetry of Seamus Heaney: A Critical Study by Neil Corcoran
  • Seamus Heaney by Helen Vendler

• Colin Kidd
  Clear Tartan Water: the election in Scotland

• Paul Seabright

  • Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott

• Tim Parks

  • Voltaire's Coconuts by Ian Buruma

• Anna Vaux

  • Antonia White by Jane Dunn

• Gabriele Annan

  • Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai

• Ruth Padel
  Poem: ‘The Phoenix’

• Frank Kermode
  Diary: being a critic