Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Bruce Ackerman
• Alan Bennett
• Peter Campbell
• Tobias Gregory
• James Lever
• Michael Robbins
• Jonathan Romney
• Charles Simic
• Jonathan Steele
• Jenny Turner
• Mary-Kay Wilmers
• Tony Wood
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Tony Wood
  Frozenology: Siberia is Melting

• Letters
  John Calderon, James Wood, Andrew Robinson, Stephen Greenberg, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Chris Walker, Chris Sansom, Gordon Kerry, Stefan Collini

• Jenny Turner

  • C by Tom McCarthy

• Alan Bennett
  The Greening of Mrs Donaldson: A Story

• Charles Simic
  Three Poems

• Mary-Kay Wilmers
  Frank Kermode

• Peter Campbell
  At Low Magnification: Optical Instruments

• Tobias Gregory

  • ‘Orlando Furioso’: A New Verse Translation by Ludovico Ariosto, translated by David Slavitt

• Michael Robbins

  • Planisphere by John Ashbery

• James Lever

  • Burley Cross Postbox Theft by Nicola Barker

• Jonathan Romney

  • A Short History of ‘Cahiers du cinéma’ by Emilie Bickerton

• Bruce Ackerman
  At the Crossroads: Electoral Reform

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: ‘Five Easy Pieces’

• Jonathan Steele
  Diary: Neo-Taliban