Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Ashbery
• Alan Bennett
• Stefan Collini
• Mark Doty
• Ian Hacking
• Martin Harrison
• Rosemary Hill
• Frank Kermode
• Elizabeth Lowry
• Patrick McGuinness
• Mark Mazower
• Barbara Newman
• John Allen Paulos
• Nicholas Penny
• Lawrence Rainey
• Jonathan Rée
• Andrew Saint
• John Sutherland
• Jeremy Waldron

Contents

• Alan Bennett
  What I did in 1999

• Letters
  Paul Seabright, Brian Fewster, C.A. Bayly, David Gilmour, Murray Biggs, Perry Anderson, David Cronin, Neil Wilson, Paul Trewhela, James Thomson

• John Ashbery
  Two Poems

• Jonathan Rée

  • An Essay on Metaphysics by R.G. Collingwood, edited by Rex Martin
  • The New Leviathan by R.G. Collingwood, edited by David Boucher
  • The Principles of History by R.G. Collingwood, edited by W.H. Dray and W.J. van der Dussen

• Frank Kermode

  • Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings by Jonathan Raban

• Mark Doty
  Poem: ‘Manhattan: Luminism’

• Lawrence Rainey

  • Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism by T.J. Clark

• Jeremy Waldron

  • Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes by Quentin Skinner

• Barbara Newman

  • Secrets of God: Writings of Hildegard of Bingen edited by Sabina Flanagan
  • The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen: Vol. II translated by Joseph Baird
  • Jutta and Hildegard: The Biographical Sources edited by Anna Silvas
  • Physica by Hildegard of Bingen, translated by Priscilla Throop
  • On Natural Philosophy and Medicine by Hildegard of Bingen, translated by Margret Berger

• Rosemary Hill

  • The Penguin Book of 20th-Century Fashion Writing edited by Judith Watt
  • Twentieth-Century Fashion by Valerie Mendes and Amy de la Haye
  • A Century of Fashion by François Baudot
  • The Hidden Consumer: Masculinities, Fashion and City Life 1860-1914 by Christopher Breward
  • Black in Fashion by Valerie Mendes

• Nicholas Penny

  • The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Picasso, Provence and Douglas Cooper by John Richardson

• Martin Harrison
  Poem: ‘January’

• John Allen Paulos

  • The Mathematical Brain by Brian Butterworth

• Ian Hacking

  • For and against Method: including Lakatos’s Lectures on Scientific Method and the Lakatos-Feyerabend Correspondence by Imre Lakatos and Paul Feyerabend, edited by Matteo Motterlini

• Mark Mazower

  • Quisling: A Study in Treachery by Hans Fredrik Dahl, translated by Anne-Marie Stanton-Ife

• Stefan Collini

  • The Letters of Matthew Arnold. Vol. I: 1829-59 edited by Cecil Lang
  • The Letters of Matthew Arnold. Vol. II: 1860-65 edited by Cecil Lang
  • The Letters of Matthew Arnold. Vol. III: 1866-70 edited by Cecil Lang

• John Sutherland

  • Thackeray by D.J. Taylor

• Elizabeth Lowry

  • Triomf by Marlene van Niekerk, translated by Leon de Kock

• Patrick McGuinness

  • With the Grain: Essays on Thomas Hardy and Modern British Poetry by Donald Davie

• Andrew Saint
  Diary: The Jubilee Line Extension