CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Jeremy Adler
• Peter Campbell
• David Coward
• Gillian Darley
• Charles Glass
• Tony Harrison
• Thomas Jones
• Hilary Mantel
• Hugh Miles
• Anthony Pagden
• Don Paterson
• Nicholas Penny
• Edward Said
• Simon Schaffer
• Barry Schwabsky
• Art Spiegelman
• John Sturrock
• E.S. Turner
• Michael Wood
• James Wood

Contents

• Nicholas Penny

  • Piero della Francesca by Roberto Longhi, translated by David Tabbat

• Letters
  Barbara Low, Ken Coates, Hal Foster, Christian McEwen, J. Elfenbein, Phil Poole, Keith Flett

• Michael Wood

  • Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings by Italo Calvino

• Don Paterson
  Poem: ‘Letter to the Twins’

• Charles Glass
  I blame the British: a report from Lake Dokan

• Hugh Miles
  Watching the War on al-Jazeera: Look both ways

• Hilary Mantel

  • The Lost King of France by Deborah Cadbury

• David Coward

  • Viva Garibaldi! Une Odyssée en 1860 by Alexandre Dumas

• Jeremy Adler

  • Poems and Prose by Georg Trakl, translated by Alexander Stillmark

• John Sturrock
  Short Cuts: on Bullshit

• Art Spiegelman
  ‘In the Shadow of No Towers’, episode 5‘s comic continues

• Barry Schwabsky

  • Menzel’s Realism: Art and Embodiment in 19th-Century Berlin by Michael Fried

• Thomas Jones

  • After the Quake by Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin
  • Earthshaking Science: What We Know (and Don’t Know) about Earthquakes by Susan Elizabeth Hough

• James Wood

  • The Light of Day by Graham Swift

• Gillian Darley

  • The Architect and His Wife: A Life of Edwin Lutyens by Jane Ridley
  • Edwin Lutyens, Country Houses: From the Archives of ‘Country Life’ by Gavin Stamp
  • Lutyens Abroad edited by Andrew Hopkins and Gavin Stamp

• Anthony Pagden

  • Spain’s Road to Empire: The Making of a World 1492-1763 by Henry Kamen

• Tony Harrison
  Poem: ‘Under the Clock’

• Simon Schaffer

  • The Lunar Men: The Friends who Made the Future by Jenny Uglow

• E.S. Turner

  • Dean Farrar and ‘Eric’: A Study of ‘Eric, or Little by Little’, together with the Complete Text of the Book by Ian Anstruther

• Peter Campbell
  At the V&A: Art Deco

• Edward Said
  The Academy of Lagado: The US Administration’s misguided war