Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Anthony Appiah
• John Bayley
• Paul Durcan
• Terry Eagleton
• Ian Hamilton
• Simon Hoggart
• Stephen Holmes
• Andrew Johnston
• Eric Korn
• Edward Luttwak
• Tom Nairn
• E.S. Turner
• Gaby Wood
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Stephen Holmes

  • The Clash of Civilisations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel Huntington

• Letters
  Neil Forster, Paul Taylor, Richard Cummings, Fred Inglis, Andrew Sugden, Alex Drace-Francis, Adam Czerniawski, John Davis, Peter Browning, Christopher Small, Courtney Ann Cooper, Alastair Niven, Elizabeth Richardson, Matthew Hughes, Robert Ferguson, Robert Ostermann, Graham McCann, P.R. Bonnett, Keith Flett, Editors, ‘London Review’

• Paul Durcan
  Poem: ‘The King of Cats’

• John Bayley
  In Memoriam: V.S. Pritchett

• Michael Wood

  • Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me by Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa
  • The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, translated by Sonia Soto

• Gaby Wood

  • The Foundation Pit by Andrei Platonov, translated by Robert Chandler and Geoffrey Smith

• Eric Korn

  • Huxley: Evolution’s High Priest by Adrian Desmond

• Anthony Appiah

  • Congo Journey by Redmond O’Hanlon

• Terry Eagleton

  • Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference by David Harvey

• Tom Nairn
  Ghosts in the Palace

• Simon Hoggart

  • Michael Heseltine: A Biography by Michael Crick

• Andrew Johnston
  Two Poems

• Ian Hamilton
  Just what are those teeth for?

• Edward Luttwak
  Diary

• E.S. Turner

  • The Bicycle by Pryor Dodge