CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Joshua Brown
• Peter Campbell
• Peter Clarke
• Stefan Collini
• Rose George
• Dave Haslam
• Thomas Jones
• Anatol Lieven
• Hilary Mantel
• Glen Newey
• Alice Oswald
• Arnold Rattenbury
• Peter Robins
• Steven Shapin
• Robert VanderMolen
• Helen Vendler

Contents

• Stefan Collini

  • Orwell's Victory by Christopher Hitchens

• Letters
  James Wood, Peter Pulzer, Alexander Hutchison, Elizabeth Clowes, Martin Scofield, William Myers, Bernard Bergonzi, Leo Vanderpot, Peter Heyworth

• Alice Oswald
  Two Poems

• Hilary Mantel
  Little Miss Neverwell: her memoir continued

• Helen Vendler

  • Never by Jorie Graham

• Steven Shapin

  • Cogito, Ergo Sum: The Life of René Descartes by Richard A. Watson

• Anatol Lieven

  • Pakistan: Eye of the Storm by Owen Bennett-Jones

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Nephews and Daughters

• Glen Newey
  About as Useful as a String Condom: Bum Decade for the Royals

• Peter Clarke

  • Denis Healey: A Life in Our Times by Edward Pearce
  • Friends and Rivals: Crosland, Jenkins and Healey by Giles Radice

• Arnold Rattenbury

  • Collected Poems and Songs by Hamish Henderson, edited by Raymond Ross

• Peter Campbell
  At the Whitechapel: Mies van der Rohe

• Dave Haslam

  • The Promised Land: Travels in Search of the Perfect E by Decca Aitkenhead

• Peter Robins

  • Behindlings by Nicola Barker

• Robert VanderMolen
  Poem: ‘‘Fishing at the Falls’, ‘Scarlet Tanager’’

• Joshua Brown
  The Bloody Sixth

  • The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld by Herbert Asbury
  • Gangs of New York directed by Martin Scorsese

• Rose George
  Diary: in the New Beirut