Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Neal Ascherson
• Julian Bell
• Judith Butler
• Peter Campbell
• Jeremy Harding
• Thomas Jones
• August Kleinzahler
• James Lasdun
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Don Paterson
• Christian Schütze
• John Sutherland
• Tom Vanderbilt
• Susan Wheeler
• Slavoj Žižek

Contents

• August Kleinzahler
  Cutty, One Rock: My Big Bad Brother

• Letters
  Christopher Price, Patrick Rossiter, Joseph Nuttgens, Jennifer Wilkinson, Iain Bailey, Roger Etherington, Peter Le Pelley, Stephen Kanocz, Russell Seitz, Richard Bowring, Editor, ‘London Review’, Rod Eastwood

• Julian Bell

  • 'The Quattro Cento’ and ‘Stones of Rimini’ by Adrian Stokes
  • Art and Its Discontents by Richard Read

• Susan Wheeler
  Poem: ‘Carnival’

• Slavoj Žižek

  • Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew Wilson

• Neal Ascherson

  • Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman

• Tom Vanderbilt

  • The Manchurian Candidate: BFI Film Classics by Greil Marcus

• Andrew O’Hagan
  Short Cuts: Slayer Slang and Bling Bling

• Judith Butler
  No, it’s not anti-semitic: the right to criticise Israel

• Jeremy Harding

  • Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
  • Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography and Politics by David Levi Strauss

• James Lasdun

  • Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds: Ways of Telling the Self by Marina Warner

• Peter Campbell
  At the V&A: Ossie Clark

• Thomas Jones

  • The Cryptographer by Tobias Hill

• Don Paterson
  Two Poems

• Christian Schütze

  • On the Natural History of Destruction by W.G. Sebald, translated by Anthea Bell
  • Der Brand: Deutschland im Bombenkrieg 1940-45 by Jörg Friedrich
  • Payback by Gert Ledig, translated by Shaun Whiteside

• John Sutherland
  Diary: My Grandmother the Thief