Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Ashbery
• Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen
• Peter Campbell
• Christopher Hitchens
• Thomas Jones
• Frank Kermode
• John Lanchester
• Hermione Lee
• James Meek
• Sarah Rigby
• Murray Sayle
• Elaine Showalter
• Rory Stewart
• Paul Strohm
• John Sutherland

Contents

• Christopher Hitchens

  • Pinochet in Piccadilly: Britain and Chile’s Hidden History by Andy Beckett

• Letters
  James Leigh, A. Banerjee, Hugo Stolkin, J.C. Grayson, Alex Dillon, Paul Bessemer, Justin Horton, Trevor Denning

• James Meek

  • A Grain of Truth: the Media, the Public and Biotechnology by Susanna Hornig Priest
  • Travels in the Genetically Modified Zone by Mark Winston
  • Seeds of Contention: World Hunger and the Global Controversy over GM Crops by Per Pinstrup-Andersen

• John Ashbery
  Poem: ‘Sir Gammer Vans’

• Frank Kermode

  • Nothing like the Sun: reissue by Anthony Burgess

• Elaine Showalter

  • Unless by Carol Shields

• Hermione Lee

  • Youth by J.M. Coetzee

• Sarah Rigby

  • Auto da Fay by Fay Weldon

• Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen

  • La Fatigue d’être soi: Dépression et société by Alain Ehrenberg
  • Comment la Dépression est devenue une épidémie by Philippe Pignarre

• Paul Strohm

  • Pagans, Tartars, Muslims and Jews in Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’ by Brenda Deen Schildgen

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: The Ryanverse

• Murray Sayle
  Bloody Sunday Report: back to Bloody Sunday

• Peter Campbell
  At the National Gallery: Fabric of Vision: Dress and Drapery in Painting

• John Lanchester
  A Month on the Sofa: My Sporting Life

• John Sutherland

  • Aldous Huxley: An English Intellectual by Nicholas Murray
  • The Cat's Meow directed by Peter Bogdanovich

• Rory Stewart
  Diary: in Afghanistan