Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Jacob Beaver
• Peter Campbell
• Peter Clarke
• Ruth Franklin
• David Garrioch
• Charles Glass
• Jeremy Harding
• Michael Hofmann
• Edward Hooper
• Danny Karlin
• Ross McKibbin
• Richard Poirier
• Carl Rakosi
• David Runciman
• David Simpson
• Daniel Soar
• Art Spiegelman
• John Sutherland
• Christopher Tayler
• Slavoj Žižek

Contents

• David Runciman

  • Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order by Robert Kagan

• Letters
  Ian Britain, Matthew Rendall, Maurice Coakley, Mary Evans, Keith Flett, Daniel Dennett, Mark Crees, Alan Penny, Valentin Lyubarsky, Chris Purnell, Paul Romney, A.J. Wade

• Ross McKibbin
  Why did he risk it?: Blair, Brown and the US

• Slavoj Žižek
  Paranoid Reflections: What’s going on?

• Peter Clarke

  • Lloyd George: War Leader by John Grigg

• Charles Glass
  Waiting to Watch the War: a report from an observation post in Northern Iraq

• Richard Poirier

  • Painted Shadow: A Life of Vivienne Eliot by Carole Seymour-Jones

• Michael Hofmann
  Poem: ‘Broken Nights’

• David Simpson

  • Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic by Terry Eagleton

• Jeremy Harding
  Short Cuts: France’s foreign policy

• Art Spiegelman
  ‘In the Shadow of No Towers’, episode 4:The comic continues

• Edward Hooper
  Aids and the Polio Vaccine: new evidence

• Christopher Tayler

  • You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers

• Danny Karlin

  • When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

• Ruth Franklin

  • The Royal Game by Stefan Zweig, translated by B.W. Huebsch

• Peter Campbell
  In the Marketplace: at the picture-dealer’s

• Daniel Soar

  • Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer that Defeated the World Chess Champion by Feng-hsiung Hsu

• John Sutherland

  • Douglas Jerrold: 1803-57 by Michael Slater

• Carl Rakosi
  Three Poems

• David Garrioch

  • The Politics of Appearance: Representation of Dress in Revolutionary France by Richard Wrigley

• Jacob Beaver
  Diary: Harold Beaver