Areté Issue 42, Winter 2013

Issue 42 of Areté, the arts tri-quarterly edited by Craig Raine. Featuring Jeremy Sams's brilliant libretto for Don Giovanni and new fiction by May-Lan Tan. English teachers remembered, by Wendy Cope, Rose Tremain, John Ashbery, Jeffrey Eugenides, Ian McEwan, Charlotte Mendelson, Nicholas Shakespeare, Mark Ravenhill, David Lodge, Adam Thirlwell, David Hare, William Boyd...

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