CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Perry Anderson
• Alan Bennett
• John Burnside
• Peter Campbell
• Terry Castle
• Jenny Diski
• Eamon Duffy
• Geoffrey Hosking
• Nick Laird
• Curzio Malaparte
• Glen Newey
• David Runciman
• Christopher Tayler
• Eliot Weinberger
• Bee Wilson
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Alan Bennett
  Baffled at a Bookcase: My Libraries

• Letters
  Howard Hotson, Fernanda Pirie, Jacqueline Rose, Tim Parks, Deborah Roberts, Mikita Brottman, Jackson Lears, David Elstein, Nigel Gould-Davies, Richard Carter

• Peter Campbell
  At the Royal Academy: Hungarian Photography

• Christopher Tayler

  • The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst

• David Runciman

  • The Labour Tradition and the Politics of Paradox: The Oxford London Seminars 2010-11 edited by Maurice Glasman, Jonathan Rutherford, Marc Stears and Stuart White

• Jenny Diski

  • Islands of Privacy by Christena Nippert-Eng

• John Burnside
  Two Poems

• Eamon Duffy

  • Catherine of Aragon: Henry’s Spanish Queen by Giles Tremlett

• Terry Castle
  Do I like it?: Outsider Art

• Glen Newey
  Short Cuts: Murdoch

• Perry Anderson
  From Progress to Catastrophe: The Historical Novel

• Eliot Weinberger
  Poem: ‘The Cloud Bookcase’

• Geoffrey Hosking

  • Russia in 1913 by Wayne Dowler

• Curzio Malaparte translated by Walter Murch
  ‘The Traitor’

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: ‘The Tree of Life’

• Bee Wilson

  • Hedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film by Ruth Barton

• Nick Laird
  Diary: Ulster Revisited