Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Alan Bennett
• Malcolm Bull
• John Burnside
• Jonathan Coe
• David Craig
• David Edgar
• Ian Hamilton
• Rosemary Hill
• R.W. Johnson
• Frank Kermode
• Anand Menon
• A.O. Scott
• Christopher Tayler

Contents

• Frank Kermode
  Writing about Shakespeare has his say

• Letters
  William Stevens, Nicholas Perkins, Neil Forster, Benjamin Martin Bly, Anthony Sampson, Lionel (Rusty) Bernstein, Christopher Small, Richard Oxenburgh, Simon Currie, Steven Aucella, Ernst Wangermann, Keith Flett

• Malcolm Bull

  • Conversations about the End of Time by Umberto Eco and Stephen Jay Gould
  • Apocalypses: Prophesies, Cults and Millennial Beliefs throughout the Ages by Eugen Weber
  • Messianic Revolution: Radical Religious Politics to the End of the Second Millennium by Richard Popkin and David Katz

• R.W. Johnson

  • The Autobiography by John Major
  • In Office by Norman Lamont

• Anand Menon
  Send the most stupid: in defence of the European Commission

• Alan Bennett
  Father! Father! Burning Bright

• David Edgar

  • 1956 and All That by Dan Reballato
  • Collected Plays: Six by Noël Coward
  • Collected Plays: Seven by Noël Coward
  • Collected Revue Sketches and Parodies by Noël Coward
  • Noël Coward: A Life in Quotes edited by Barry Day
  • Noël Coward: The Complete Lyrics edited by Barry Day

• Jonathan Coe

  • Jacques Tati by David Bellos

• Ian Hamilton

  • Berryman's Shakespeare edited by John Haffenden
  • John Berryman’s Personal Library: A Catalogue by Richard Kelly

• A.O. Scott

  • Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx

• John Burnside
  Poem: ‘Roads’

• Christopher Tayler

  • Louse by David Grand

• Rosemary Hill

  • Elizabeth David: A Biography by Lisa Chaney
  • Waiting at the Kitchen Table. Elizabeth David: The Authorised Biography by Artemis Cooper

• David Craig
  Diary