CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Julian Bell
• Peter Campbell
• Norman Dombey
• William Fitzgerald
• Jeremy Harding
• R.W. Johnson
• John Kinsella
• Marc Kusnetz
• David Morley
• David Nasaw
• Michael Newton
• Deborah Steiner
• Christopher Tayler
• Jenny Turner
• James Wood
• Michael Wood

Contents

• James Wood

  • The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter

• Letters
  Jeremy Goldstein, Chris Purnell, Charles Kenwright, Simon Port, Stephen Lake, Alan Myers, Dai Vaughan, Mark Sinclair, J. Elfenbein, Paul Taylor

• John Kinsella
  Poem: ‘From ‘Corrosive (in 12 parts): Chaos Theory and the Western Australian Central Wheatbelt’’

• Jeremy Harding

  • Endgame in the Western Sahara: What Future for Africa’s Last Colony? by Toby Shelley

• Jenny Turner

  • The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

• R.W. Johnson

  • Speaking for England: Leo, Julian and John Amery: The Tragedy of a Political Family by David Faber

• Julian Bell

  • Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse Vol. II The Conquest of Colour 1909-54 by Hilary Spurling

• Peter Campbell
  At the Hayward: Dan Flavin

• Jeremy Harding
  Short Cuts: the benefits of self-censorship

• Michael Wood

  • The Red Letters: My Father’s Enchanted Period by Ved Mehta
  • Remembering Mr Shawn’s ‘New Yorker’ by Ved Mehta
  • Dark Harbour by Ved Mehta

• David Morley
  Two Poems

• Michael Newton

  • Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language by Daniel Heller-Roazen

• William Fitzgerald

  • The Poems of Catullus: A Bilingual Edition translated by Peter Green

• Deborah Steiner

  • Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton by Emily Wilson

• Norman Dombey
  Iran and the UN: Iran and the UN

• Christopher Tayler

  • The Diviners by Rick Moody

• David Nasaw

  • Hatless Jack: The President, the Fedora and the Death of the Hat by Neil Steinberg

• Marc Kusnetz
  Diary: The death of General Mowhoush