  I review recent activity in the field of intermediate polars, concentrating
on: the mode of accretion (disc-fed, disc-overflow or discless); accretion
curtains (the transition region and the accretion footprint); X-ray pulse
profiles (occultation and absorption effects); accretion columns (mass
determinations, line-broadening, the soft X-ray component), and outbursts in
intermediate polars.

Astrophysics