As the year 2000 approaches, the author talks to those at the forefront of debate about culture, society, politics, religion, history, art, film and education. Included in this volume are John Barrell, Bernard Bergonzi, A.S. Byatt, Brian Cox, Terry Eagleton, Robert Hewison, Lisa Jardine, Colin MacCabe, Roger Scruton, George Steiner, Catherine Belsey, Christine Brooke-Rose, David Caute, Donald Davie, Stephen Heath, Richard Hoggart, Frank Kermode, Karl Miller, C.H. Sisson and Marina Warner. Many of the conversations were conducted for P.N. Review, a journal to which Nicolas Tredell, like some of his contributors, have a long-standing commitment. Tredell is the author of Uncancelled Challenge: the Work of Raymond Williams (1990) and The Critical Decade: Culture in Crisis (1993).