Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• David A. Bell
• Peter Campbell
• Terry Castle
• David Craig
• Joseph Farrell
• Ian Hamilton
• R.W. Johnson
• Thomas Jones
• Frank Kermode
• August Kleinzahler
• Jessica Olin
• Hugh Pennington
• Gilberto Perez
• Peter Riley
• Edward Said
• E.S. Turner

Contents

• Hugh Pennington
  The English Disease: Who’s to blame for BSE?

  • The BSE Inquiry by Lord Phillips et al

• Letters
  Andrew Taylor, Alan Bennett, Janet Todd, Charles Plouviez, Roy Foster, Joe Morison, David Brauner, Anita McBride, Michael Moorcock, J.L. Nelson, Jim Forrest

• Ian Hamilton

  • Diaries: Into Politics by Alan Clark
  • The Assassin’s Cloak: An Anthology of the World’s Greatest Diarists edited by Irene Taylor and Alan Taylor
  • The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt. Vol. III: From Major to Blair edited by Sarah Curtis

• Edward Said
  Palestinians under Siege: putting Palestine on the map

• Peter Riley
  Poem: ‘After Dinner’

• Terry Castle

  • Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism by Joan Acocella

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: bookshops

• August Kleinzahler

  • An Unfortunate Woman by Richard Brautigan
  • Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-70 by Richard Brautigan
  • You Can't Catch Death by Ianthe Brautigan

• Jessica Olin

  • Like Normal People by Karen Bender

• Gilberto Perez

  • Stroheim by Arthur Lennig
  • The Adventures of Roberto Rossellini by Tag Gallagher

• David A. Bell

  • Englishness Identified: Manners and Character, 1650-1850 by Paul Langford

• Frank Kermode
  At Tate Britain: William Blake

• E.S. Turner

  • How the English Made the Alps by Jim Ring
  • Killing Dragons: The Conquest of the Alps by Fergus Fleming

• R.W. Johnson

  • Thomas Hodgkin: Letters from Africa, 1947-56 edited by Elizabeth Hodgkin and Michael Wolfers

• Peter Campbell

  • Indigo by Jenny Balfour-Paul
  • Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour that Changed the World by Simon Garfield

• David Craig

  • Time by Andy Goldsworthy

• Joseph Farrell
  Diary