CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Andy Beckett
• Alan Bennett
• Malcolm Bull
• Peter Campbell
• Conor Gearty
• James Hall
• Robert Irwin
• Thomas Jones
• Frank Kermode
• Glen Newey
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Tom Paulin
• Lorna Sage
• Avi Shlaim
• David Trotter

Contents

• Alan Bennett
  Alan Bennett’s 2000 Diary

• Letters
  Adam Thorpe, Hugh Pennington, John Thompson, Edward Luttwak, Edward Said, Gerard Watson, Peter Wilson, Murray Sayle

• Conor Gearty
  What are judges for? on judges

• Tom Paulin
  Poem: ‘Prologue’

• Lorna Sage

  • Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green by Jeremy Treglown

• Frank Kermode

  • The Means of Escape: Stories by Penelope Fitzgerald

• David Trotter

  • Some Sort of Genius: A Life of Wyndham Lewis by Paul O'Keeffe
  • Wyndham Lewis: Painter and Writer by Paul Edwards

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: the Spectator

• Andrew O’Hagan
  Every Sodding Thing

• James Hall

  • The Artist's Body edited by Tracey Warr and Amelia Jones
  • Five Hundred Self-Portraits edited by Julian Bell
  • Renaissance Self-Portraiture by Joanna Woods-Marsden

• Malcolm Bull

  • The Fragile Absolute or why is the christian legacy worth fighting for? by Slavoj Žižek

• Glen Newey

  • Profit over People: Neo-Liberalism and Global Order by Noam Chomsky
  • Acts of Aggression: Policing ‘Rogue’ States by Noam Chomsky and Ramsey Clark, edited by Edward Said
  • The Umbrella of US Power: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Contradictions of US Policy by Noam Chomsky
  • The New Military Humanism: Lessons from Kosovo by Noam Chomsky

• Peter Campbell
  Behind King’s Cross: Gasometers

• Avi Shlaim
  Ehud Barak: Ehud Barak

• Robert Irwin

  • A Vision of the Middle East: An Intellectual Biography of Albert Hourani by Abdulaziz Al-Sudairi

• Andy Beckett
  Diary in Chile

  • Pinochet and Me: A Chilean Anti-Memoir by Marc Cooper