CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Terry Castle
• Gregory Dart
• Mark Doty
• Marian FitzGerald
• Richard Fortey
• Hal Foster
• John Fuller
• P.N. Furbank
• Charles Glass
• Kathleen Jamie
• John Jones
• Robert Macfarlane
• Bill Manhire
• A.W. Moore
• John Sturrock
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Charles Glass
  The New Piracy: Terror on the High Seas

• Letters
  John Carey, Martyn Goff, James Wood, Eva Gillies, Rex Winsbury, Derek Robinson, Bruce Clunies Ross, Mattias Brinkman, E.S. Turner, Carol Reid, Marius Pope

• Mark Doty
  Poem: ‘Heaven for Helen’

• Marian FitzGerald

  • Prisongate: The Shocking State of Britain’s Prisons and the Need for Visionary Change by David Ramsbotham

• Bill Manhire
  Poem: ‘Death of a Poet’

• Terry Castle
  My Heroin Christmas: Art Pepper and Me

• John Fuller
  Poem: ‘Iguana Days’

• Gregory Dart

  • The Selected Writings of Leigh Hunt edited by Robert Morrison and Michael Eberle-Sinatra

• Michael Wood
  What Henry Knew: Literature and the Taste of Knowledge

• John Sturrock
  Short Cuts: A Bath in the Dock

• Robert Macfarlane

  • The Discovery of Slowness by Sten Nadolny, translated by Ralph Freedman

• A.W. Moore

  • Everything and More: A Compact History of ∞ by David Foster Wallace
  • A Brief History of Infinity: The Quest to Think the Unthinkable by Brian Clegg
  • The Art of the Infinite: Our Lost Language of Numbers by Robert Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan

• Kathleen Jamie
  Into the Dark: A Winter Solstice

• Hal Foster
  At the Guggenheim: Pop Surrealism

• Richard Fortey

  • After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC by Steven Mithen

• P.N. Furbank

  • The Tomb in Seville by Norman Lewis

• John Jones
  Diary: Iris, Hegel and Me