Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Uri Avnery
• Leo Benedictus
• Colin Burrow
• Peter Campbell
• Patrick Cockburn
• Stefan Collini
• Michael Dobson
• Anne Hollander
• Gary Indiana
• Thomas Jones
• Liam McIlvanney
• John Mullan
• Edward Pearce
• Carl Rakosi
• Ben Sonnenberg
• John Sturrock
• Virginia Tilley
• Blair Worden

Contents

• Stefan Collini
  HiEdBiz: The Business of Higher Education

  • The Future of Higher Education

• Letters
  Mary Elkins, Mattias Brinkman, Stephen Sedley, John Clayton, Gareth Dixon, Frank Kermode, John Yandell, Jules Greavey, Adrian Bowyer, Stanley’s Joke, Leon Lewis, Rebecca Solnit

• Thomas Jones

  • Dylan's Visions of Sin by Christopher Ricks

• Virginia Tilley
  The One-State Solution: the future of Israel and Palestine

• Uri Avnery
  In The Mukatah: In Arafat’s Compound

• Anne Hollander

  • From Criminal to Courtier: The Soldier in Netherlandish Art 1550-1672 by David Kunzle

• Carl Rakosi
  Two Poems

• Colin Burrow

  • Michel de Montaigne: Accidental Philosopher by Anne Hartle

• John Sturrock
  Short Cuts: Blair’s wars

• Blair Worden

  • The Crisis of 1614 and the Addled Parliament: Literary and Historical Perspectives edited by Stephen Clucas and Rosalind Davies
  • The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England: News Culture and the Overbury Affair 1603-60 by Alastair Bellany

• Peter Campbell
  At the Atlantis Gallery: The Survey of India

• Michael Dobson

  • Shakespeare’s Face: The Story behind the Newly Discovered Portrait by Stephanie Nolen
  • Imagining Shakespeare: A History of Texts and Visions by Stephen Orgel
  • Shakespeare in Art by Jane Martineau et al
  • In Search of Shakespeare by Michael Wood

• John Mullan

  • Byron: Life and Legend by Fiona MacCarthy

• Gary Indiana
  Kindergarten Governor: It’s Schwarzenegger!

• Liam McIlvanney

  • Waxwings by Jonathan Raban

• Leo Benedictus

  • The Scheme for Full Employment by Magnus Mills

• Edward Pearce

  • Ernest Jones, Chartism and the Romance of Politics 1819-69 by Miles Taylor

• Ben Sonnenberg
  Two Poems

• Patrick Cockburn
  Diary: in Iraq