Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Tariq Ali
• Alan Bennett
• Denis Feeney
• Jeremy Harding
• Thomas Jones
• Frank Kermode
• August Kleinzahler
• Ruth Padel
• Nicholas Penny
• Adam Phillips
• Corey Robin
• Daniel Soar
• Christopher Thompson
• Colm Tóibín
• James Wood
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Alan Bennett
  My 2006: 2006 Diary

• Letters
  Jennifer Verner, John Barrell, John Lawton, Robert Morgan, Neal Ascherson, Eric Hobsbawm, James Wood, Jason Webb, Charles Glass, Park Honan, Joanna Zgadzaj

• Nicholas Penny

  • Guide to the Getty Villa by Kenneth Lapatin et al
  • History of the Art of Antiquity by Johann Joachim Winckelmann, translated by Harry Francis Mallgrave
  • The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing by T.J. Clark

• Ruth Padel
  Two Poems

• Michael Wood

  • Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon

• Daniel Soar

  • House of Meetings by Martin Amis

• Corey Robin

  • Why Arendt Matters by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
  • Hannah Arendt: The Jewish Writings edited by Jerome Kohn and Ron Feldman
  • Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt

• Tariq Ali
  The General in his Labyrinth: Pakistan, Afghanistan and the US

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Michael Crichton’s Revenge

• James Wood

  • Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man by Claire Tomalin

• August Kleinzahler
  Two Poems

• Colm Tóibín

  • Paul Bowles: A Life by Virginia Spencer Carr

• Jeremy Harding
  At Quai Branly: Jacques Chirac’s museum

• Adam Phillips

  • The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Paul Muldoon
  • Horse Latitudes by Paul Muldoon

• Denis Feeney

  • Virgil: Georgics translated by Peter Fallon, notes by Elaine Fantham
  • Virgil: The Aeneid translated by Robert Fagles

• Frank Kermode

  • The Nativity: History and Legend by Geza Vermes

• Christopher Thompson
  Diary: Angola and the Oil