Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Simon Carnell
• Rosemary Dinnage
• Terry Eagleton
• R.W. Johnson
• Thomas Laqueur
• Elizabeth Lowry
• Thomas Nagel
• Sean O’Brien
• Arnold Rattenbury
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Thomas Laqueur

  • Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce by Douglas Starr

• Letters
  Jerry White, Harold Love, John Murphy, Neil Hornick, Graham Kemp, John Torrance, Carol Rumens, Sean McDougall, Gene Damon, Dane Jackson, John Haffenden

• Sean O’Brien
  Poem: ‘Welcome Major Poet!’

• Terry Eagleton

  • The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín

• R.W. Johnson

  • The Truth about the Truth Commission by Anthea Jeffery

• Elizabeth Lowry

  • Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
  • The Lives of Animals by J.M. Coetzee

• Arnold Rattenbury

  • ‘Severn and Somme’ and ‘War’s Embers’ by Ivor Gurney, edited by R.K.R. Thornton
  • 80 Poems or So by Ivor Gurney, edited by George Walter and R.K.R. Thornton

• Thomas Nagel

  • The Dignity of Legislation by Jeremy Waldron

• Michael Wood

  • Headlong by Michael Frayn

• Simon Carnell
  Four Poems

• Rosemary Dinnage
  Diary: evacuees