Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Eve Blake
• Peter Campbell
• Harry Clifton
• Lorraine Daston
• Hal Foster
• James Francken
• P.N. Furbank
• Charles Glass
• Thomas Jones
• Danny Karlin
• Stephen Knight
• Yitzhak Laor
• Anatol Lieven
• John Mullan
• Laura Quinney
• Matthew Reynolds
• David Runciman
• Art Spiegelman
• John Sturrock

Contents

• David Runciman
  The Politics of Good Intentions: Blair’s Masochism

• Letters
  Paul Osterrieth, Hilary Koprowski, Stanley Plotkin, Vivian Wyatt, Jonathan Bland, Edward Pearce, David Edgerton, Chris Baldick, Evan Riley, Michael Fried, Jeremy Bernstein, Robert Olby, Richard Wrigley, Patricia Miller, Martin Harries

• Harry Clifton
  Poem: ‘Qatar’

• Danny Karlin

  • Herman Melville: A Biography. Vol. II: 1851-91 by Hershel Parker

• John Mullan

  • Baudolino by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver

• Peter Campbell
  At the Saatchi Gallery: London’s new art gallery

• Anatol Lieven
  A Trap of Their Own Making: The consequences of the new imperialism

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Thomas Pynchon

• Charles Glass
  Saddamism after Saddam: After the Invasion

• Art Spiegelman
  ‘In the Shadow of No Towers’, episode 6: the comic continues

• Yitzhak Laor
  Silent Partner: Israel’s War

• Lorraine Daston

  • Charles Darwin. Vol. II: The Power of Place by Janet Browne

• P.N. Furbank

  • 'The Military Orchid’ and Other Novels by Jocelyn Brooke

• John Sturrock

  • Oeuvres complètes: Tome II: Romans I by Raymond Queneau, edited by Henri Godard

• Matthew Reynolds

  • The ‘Inferno’ of Dante Alighieri a new translation by Ciaran Carson

• Laura Quinney

  • Allusion to the Poets by Christopher Ricks

• Hal Foster

  • Quick Studies: The Best of ‘Lingua Franca’ edited by Alexander Star

• Stephen Knight
  Poem: ‘The Call-Box’

• James Francken

  • English Correspondence by Janet Davey

• Eve Blake
  Diary: Friern Hospital