Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• T.H. Barrett
• Alan Bennett
• Owen Flanagan
• Misha Glenny
• Anthony Grafton
• Ian Hamilton
• John Henderson
• Stephen Knight
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Lorna Scott Fox
• Stephen Sedley
• Elaine Showalter
• Thomas de Waal
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Stephen Sedley

  • Statutory Interpretation by Francis Bennion
  • Law and Interpretation edited by Andrei Marmor
  • Equality before the Law: Deaf People’s Access to Justice by Mary Brennan and Richard Brown

• Letters
  Stewart Wallis, William Morrice, Brian Southam, Jenny Balfour-Paul, Masolino d’Amico, Val Lyubarsky, Giles Foden, Nicolas Walter, Mervyn Jones

• Alan Bennett
  Alan Bennett chooses four paintings for schools: Studying the Form

• Anthony Grafton

  • Behind the Picture: Art and Evidence in Italian Renaissance by Martin Kemp

• Lorna Scott Fox

  • The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali by Ian Gibson

• Stephen Knight
  Poem: ‘A British Summer’

• Michael Wood

  • Collected Poetry and Prose by Wallace Stevens, edited by Frank Kermode and Joan Richardson

• Andrew O’Hagan

  • Truman Capote: In which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career by George Plimpton

• Ian Hamilton

  • Toward the End of Time by John Updike
  • Golf Dreams by John Updike

• Misha Glenny calls for a coup in Belgrade

• Thomas de Waal

  • Boris Yeltsin: From Dawn to Dusk by Aleksandr Korzhakov
  • Romance with the President by Vyacheslav Kostikov

• John Henderson

  • Dissidence and Literature under Nero: The Price of Rhetoricisation by Vasily Rudich

• T.H. Barrett

  • The Buddha of Brewer Street by Michael Dobbs
  • The Book of Tibetan Elders: Life Stories and Wisdom from the Great Spiritual Masters of Tibet by Sandy Johnson
  • The Art of Tibet by Robert Fisher
  • Tibetan Nation: A History of Tibetan Nationalism and Sino-Tibetan Relations by Warren Smith Jr.
  • The Way to Freedom by His Holiness The Dalai Lama
  • Awakening the Mind, Lightening the Heart by His Holiness The Dalai Lama
  • Kundun: A Biography of the Family of the Dalai Lama by Mary Craig

• Elaine Showalter
  Diary

• Owen Flanagan

  • The Analects of Confucius translated by Simon Leys
  • The Analects of Confucius translated by Chichung Huang