Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Ashbery
• Iain Bamforth
• David Blackbourn
• Jason Burke
• Peter Campbell
• Patrick Collinson
• Jenny Diski
• David Edgar
• Kathleen Jamie
• Thomas Jones
• Elizabeth Lowry
• James Meek
• Andrew O’Hagan
• John Sturrock
• Richard Vinen

Contents

• Andrew O’Hagan
  The End of British Farming: British farming

• Letters
  Jessica Benjamin, Malcolm Bowie, Christopher Bollas, John Forrester, André Green, Julia Kristeva, Jonathan Lear, Juliet Mitchell, Adam Phillips, J.-B. Pontalis, jacqueline Rose, Moustapha Safouan, Donald Campbell, J.P. Roos, Coline Covington, Kirsty Hall, Linda Hopkins, Salley Vickers, Paul Seabright, G. Colin Jimack, Edward Luttwak, J.R.S. Fincham, Glen Newey

• Kathleen Jamie
  Poem: ‘At Robert Fergusson’s Grave’

• James Meek

  • The Invisible Enemy: A Natural History of Viruses by Dorothy Crawford

• David Blackbourn

  • Hitler, 1936-45: Nemesis by Ian Kershaw

• Richard Vinen

  • The Death of Jean Moulin: Biography of a Ghost by Patrick Marnham

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Fastsellers

• Iain Bamforth

  • The Adversary: A True Story of Murder and Deception by Emmanuel Carrère, translated by Linda Coverdale

• John Sturrock

  • Victor Segalen and the Aesthetics of Diversity: Journeys between Cultures by Charles Forsdick

• Elizabeth Lowry

  • Doris Lessing: A Biography by Carole Klein
  • Ben, in the World by Doris Lessing

• Patrick Collinson

  • New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors 1485-1603 by Susan Brigden

• John Ashbery
  Poem: ‘Disagreeable Glimpses’

• David Edgar

  • Fool of the Family: A Life of J.M. Synge by W.J. McCormack
  • Interpreting Synge: Essays from the Synge Summer School 1991-2000 edited by Nicholas Grene

• Jenny Diski

  • The Truth at Last: My Story by Christine Keeler and Douglas Thompson

• Peter Campbell
  At the National Gallery: Paintings from the Berlin Nationalgalerie

  • Spirit of an Age: Paintings from the Berlin Nationalgalerie

• Jason Burke
  Diary: An execution in Kabul