Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Bayley
• Geoffrey Best
• David Craig
• Allen Curnow
• Lorraine Daston
• James Davidson
• Anne Enright
• Jay Griffiths
• Robert Irwin
• Nicholas Jose
• Jonathan Rée
• W.G. Runciman
• Paul Smith
• John Sutherland
• Christopher Tayler
• E.S. Turner
• Simon Walker
• Michael Wood
• Tony Wood

Contents

• Michael Wood

  • Later Auden by Edward Mendelson

• Letters
  K. Sinclair-Loutit, Nikhil Pal Singh, Alys Eve Weinbaum, David Kazanjian, Brent Edwards, Josefina Saldana, George Hornby, J.P. Roos, Amanda Hopkinson, Andrew Horn, Stephen Howe, Gerald Moore, David Freedberg, Alexander Hutchison, Valentin Lyubarsky, Malcolm Hurwitt, Peter Wright

• John Sutherland
  At Home in the Huntington: the Isherwood Archive

• John Bayley

  • Poetry and Politics in the Cockney School by Jeffrey Cox

• Lorraine Daston

  • Wonder, the Rainbow and the Aesthetics of Rare Experiences by Philip Fisher

• Jonathan Rée

  • The Cambridge History of 17th-Century Philosophy edited by Daniel Garber and Michael Ayres

• Nicholas Jose

  • Inside Out: New Chinese Art edited by Gao Minglu
  • Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the 20th Century by Wu Hung
  • A Century in Crisis: Modernity and Tradition in the Art of 20th-Century China by Julia Andrews and Kuiyi Shen

• Robert Irwin

  • The Allure of Empire: Art in the Service of French Imperialism 1798-1836 by Todd Porterfield

• Allen Curnow
  Poem: ‘The Bells of Saint Babel’s’

• James Davidson
  How many gay men does it take to change an island?: The ancient Greek islands

• W.G. Runciman

  • The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore

• Simon Walker

  • England’s Empty Throne: Usurpation and the Language of Legitimation, 1399-1422 by Paul Strohm

• Paul Smith

  • Acton and History by Owen Chadwick

• E.S. Turner

  • The London Rich: The Creation of a Great City from 1666 to the Present by Peter Thorold
  • The Rise of the Nouveaux Riches: Style and Status in Victorian and Edwardian Architecture by Mordaunt Crook

• Geoffrey Best

  • Alchemist of War: The Life of Basil Liddell Hart by Alex Danchev
  • Studies in British Military Thought: Debates with Fuller and Liddell Hart by Brian Holden Reid

• Jay Griffiths

  • The Penguin Book of 20th-Century Protest edited by Brian MacArthur
  • DIY Culture: Party and Protest in Nineties Britain edited by George McKay

• David Craig

  • Nature: Western Attitudes since Ancient Times by Peter Coates

• Christopher Tayler

  • Tomato Red by Daniel Woodrell

• Tony Wood

  • The Life of Insects by Victor Pelevin, translated by Andrew Bromfield
  • The Clay Machine-Gun by Victor Pelevin, translated by Andrew Bromfield
  • A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories by Victor Pelevin, translated by Andrew Bromfield

• Anne Enright
  Diary: bombings in Baghdad