Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Mary Beard
• Peter Clarke
• Jerry Coyne
• Raymond Friel
• Christopher Hitchens
• Maurice Keen
• Frank Kermode
• John Lanchester
• Richard Lloyd Parry
• Glyn Maxwell
• Dennis O’Driscoll
• K.D. Reynolds
• Steven Shapin
• Charles Simic
• Daniel Soar
• C.K. Stead
• David Sylvester
• E.S. Turner
• Anna Vaux
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Michael Wood

  • The Unruly Life of Woody Allen by Marion Meade

• Letters
  Katherine Duncan-Jones, Patrick Collinson, Michael Haslam, Frances Wilson, Frances Stonor Saunders, P. Kelly, Thomson Littlefield, Steven Wells, Norman Cantor, George Jones, Charles Swann, Stephen Sedley, S.A. Skinner

• David Sylvester
  On the Edge

  • A New Thing Breathing: Recent Work by Tony Cragg

• Frank Kermode

  • The Image of Christ edited by Gabriele Finaldi

• Maurice Keen

  • The Hundred Years War. Vol. II: Trial by Fire by Jonathan Sumption

• Jerry Coyne

  • Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley

• Steven Shapin

  • French DNA: Trouble in Purgatory by Paul Rabinow

• John Lanchester

  • Set in Darkness by Ian Rankin

• Charles Simic
  Four Poems

• Christopher Hitchens

  • Ravelstein by Saul Bellow

• Peter Clarke

  • Stafford Cripps: A Political Life by Simon Burgess

• Mary Beard

  • The Dons by Noël Annan
  • A Man of Contradictions: A Life of A.L.Rowse by Richard Ollard

• K.D. Reynolds

  • Power and Place: The Political Consequences of King Edward VII by Simon Heffer
  • A Spirit Undaunted: The Political Role of George VI by Robert Rhodes James

• E.S. Turner

  • An Innkeeper's Diary by John Fothergill

• Raymond Friel
  Poem: ‘Trebarwith Strand’

• Anna Vaux

  • The Impossibility of Sex by Susie Orbach

• Glyn Maxwell
  Poem: ‘Trapped in Miss America’s Boudoir’

• Richard Lloyd Parry

  • A Good Place to Die by James Buchan

• Daniel Soar

  • The Pillar of Fire by Nikolai Gumilev, translated by Richard McKane

• Dennis O’Driscoll

  • Killing Time by Simon Armitage
  • Short and Sweet: 101 Very Short Poems edited by Simon Armitage

• C.K. Stead
  Diary: truth and autobiographies