Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Jeremy Adler
• Colin Burrow
• Peter Campbell
• Stefan Collini
• Mark Doty
• Ian Gilmour
• Thomas Jones
• Christian Parenti
• Jonathan Rée
• Robin Robertson
• Richard Rorty
• Stephen Sedley
• Art Spiegelman
• Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Contents

• Stefan Collini

  • The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography edited by H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison

• Letters
  Chris Hardy, Peter Morris, L.J. Hurst, Timothy Brennan, Peter Connolly, John Henn, Paul Tickell, David McDowall, Rod Eastwood, Gerry Harrison, Rory O’Keeffe

• Robin Robertson
  Two Poems

• Colin Burrow

  • Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt

• Richard Rorty

  • Philosophical Analysis in the 20th Century. Vol. I: The Dawn of Analysis by Scott Soames
  • Philosophical Analysis in the 20th Century. Vol. II: The Age of Meaning by Scott Soames

• Mark Doty
  Poem: ‘Notebook/To Lucian Freud/On the Veil’

• Jeremy Adler

  • Pushing Time Away: My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna by Peter Singer

• Art Spiegelman
  Mood Indigo: Singing the Inauguration Day blues

• Jonathan Rée

  • Camus and Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel that Ended It by Ronald Aronson

• Ruth Bernard Yeazell

  • Dutch 17th-century Genre Painting: Its Stylistic and Thematic Evolution by Wayne Franits

• Stephen Sedley
  Short Cuts: The case for a national DNA register

• Ian Gilmour

  • The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period by William St Clair

• Peter Campbell
  In Port Sunlight: the art collection of a soap magnate

• Thomas Jones

  • The Oxford Murders by Guillermo Martínez, translated by Sonia Soto

• Christian Parenti
  Diary: the opium farmers of Afghanistan