Rhyming Triplets
Book Reviews: New & Collected Poems, by U. A. Fanthorpe; How Snow Falls, by Craig Raine; and Late Poems, by Anthony Thwaite
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Serious Business
The considered high-mindedness of Eliot or Larkin is no longer a prerequisite for members of today's literary establishment
St Gilbert of Fleet Street
Book Review: The Wit and Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton selected by Bevis Hillier
The Test of Character
Book Reviews: Freedom by Jonathan Franzen; and Sunset Park by Paul Auster
High Priest of Poetry
Taller When Prone by Les Murray
The German Question
The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century by Peter Watson; Fame by Daniel Kehlmann; The Box by Günter Grass; and Portrait of the Mother as
All About Himself
La Carte et le Territoire by Michel Houellebecq
Mentioned in Dispatches
Letters from London and Europe by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, tranlated by J. G. Nichols
Smoke on the Water
A World on Fire: An Epic History of Two Nations Divided by Amanda Foreman
Super Mario
A brilliant writer with remarkable political gifts, Mario Vargas Llosa is a worthy winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
The Politics of Envy
That Howard Jacobson and V. S. Naipaul are non-members of the London literary establishment does them credit
Incurable Romantics
The historian Tim Blanning and the critic Jonathan Bate discuss the place of Romanticism in contemporary culture with the Editor of Standpoint, Daniel Johnson