2005

Contents

• Tom Stoppard and Michael Holroyd interview themselves
• Hilary Spurling examines M.M. Kaye and Paul Scott's literary relationship
• Sebastian Faulks describes the RSL team's experience of University Challenge
• Alan Judd assesses novels of the Second World War
• Anthony Gardner on Philip Larkin's role in the campaign to save British manuscripts
• Edwin Morgan considers the distinction between English and Scottish literature
• Dialogue: Ben Okri and Derek Walcott discuss poetry, painting and racism
• Short story: Ed Siegle's winning entry for the V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize
• Archive: John Wells looks at nineteenth-century literary competitions