Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Tariq Ali
• Nina Auerbach
• John Burnside
• Jenny Diski
• Terry Eagleton
• James Hamilton-Paterson
• Alan Jenkins
• Thomas Jones
• Frank Kermode
• Patrick McGuinness
• Benjamin Markovits
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Graham Robb
• Bernard Rudden
• Edward Said
• David Simpson
• John Sturrock
• Matthew Sweeney
• John Upton
• Alex de Waal
• Sean Wilsey

Contents

• Edward Said
  A Road Map to Where?: The Future of the Middle East

• Letters
  Roger Lancaster, Denys Trussell, Phil Edwards, Michael Dibdin, Fred Matthews, T.J. Stiles, Nicholas Jacobs, Dan Jameson, Ray Crozier, F. Crawford

• Terry Eagleton

  • George Orwell by Gordon Bowker
  • Orwell: The Life by D.J. Taylor
  • Orwell: Life and Times by Scott Lucas

• Jenny Diski

  • Green Gold: The Empire of Tea by Alan Macfarlane and Iris Macfarlane

• Matthew Sweeney
  Two Poems

• Alex de Waal

  • Aids in the 21st Century: Disease and Globalisation by Tony Barnett and Alan Whiteside

• James Hamilton-Paterson

  • Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday by Robin Hemley

• Sean Wilsey
  Using so Little: Life on a Skateboard

• John Sturrock
  Short Cuts: Iraq’s Invisible Weapons

• John Upton
  He huffs and he puffs: David Blunkett, the Lifers and the Judges

• Bernard Rudden

  • Private Property and Abuse of Rights in Victorian England: The Story of Edward Pickles and the Bradford Water Supply by Michael Taggart

• Andrew O’Hagan
  At the Design Museum: Peter Saville

• Frank Kermode

  • Privacy: Concealing the 18th-Century Self by Patricia Meyer Spacks

• John Burnside
  Poem: ‘Pentecost’

• David Simpson

  • The Vehement Passions by Philip Fisher

• Nina Auerbach

  • Zelda Fitzgerald: Her Voice in Paradise by Sally Cline

• Graham Robb

  • Napoleon III and His Regime: An Extravaganza by David Baguley
  • The French Second Empire: An Anatomy of Political Power by Roger Price

• Patrick McGuinness

  • The Distance, The Shadows: Selected Poems by Victor Hugo, translated by Harry Guest
  • Selected Poetry by Victor Hugo, translated by Steven Monte
  • Selected Poems of Victor Hugo: A Bilingual Edition edited by E.H. Blackmore and A.M. Blackmore

• Benjamin Markovits

  • What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt

• Alan Jenkins
  Poem: ‘Ondine’

• Thomas Jones

  • One Day by Ardashir Vakil

• Tariq Ali
  Diary: In Pakistan