2011

Contents

• Richard Eyre on government spending cuts to the arts
• P.D. James on the novelist's lot
• 'Obituary Self-Service': a poem by Peter Porter
• Dialogue: Seamus Heaney talks to Jon Stallworthy
• Ariane Bankes on her aunt's marriage to Arthur Koestler
• Romesh Gunesekera and Linda Kelly revisit literary salons
• The writer as painter and composer by Fiona Sampson
• Sue Gaisford examines the state of biography
• Short story: 'The Premises' by Michael Newton
• Anthony Gardner talks to the lexicographers who choose new words