CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Jonathan Barnes
• Harry Clifton
• Terry Eagleton
• Eric Foner
• Thomas Jones
• Frank Kermode
• Hilary Mantel
• Nicholas Penny
• Laura Quinney
• Ian Campbell Ross
• David Runciman
• Christine Stansell
• Michael Wood
• James Wood

Contents

• Michael Wood
  On Edward Said: Edward Said

• Letters
  Matthew Scully, Deborah Heller, Andrew O’Hagan, Edward Buscombe, Blair Worden, Simon Gladdish, Thomas Dilworth, Bill Myers, S.L. Barley, John Scott, William Wilson, Mark McLean, Malcolm Hurwitt, E.S. Turner, John Wardroper, Keith Ansell-Pearson, Jon Cannon, Ken Kirk, Fatema Ahmed, Elizabeth Spelman, Editor, ‘London Review’

• David Runciman

  • Emmanuel Sieyès: Political Writings edited by Michael Sonenscher

• Eric Foner

  • Lincoln by Richard Carwardine
  • Lincoln's Constitution by Daniel Farber

• James Wood

  • Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons by J.M. Coetzee

• Terry Eagleton

  • Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature by Erich Auerbach

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Crap Towns

• Laura Quinney

  • Moy Sand and Gravel by Paul Muldoon

• Frank Kermode

  • The Poems of Andrew Marvell edited by Nigel Smith

• Jonathan Barnes

  • The Way and the Word: Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece by Geoffrey Lloyd and Nathan Sivin

• Christine Stansell

  • Whistler, Women and Fashion by Margaret MacDonald and Susan Grace Galassi et al
  • Whistler and His Mother: An Unexpected Relationship by Sarah Walden

• Nicholas Penny
  In Toledo, Ohio: Goltzius

• Ian Campbell Ross

  • Hermsprong; or Man as He Is Not by Robert Bage, edited by Pamela Perkins

• Harry Clifton
  Poem: ‘The Garden’

• Hilary Mantel
  Diary: Hilary Mantel meets her stepfather