Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Alan Bennett
• John Burnside
• Michael Byers
• Peter Campbell
• Jenny Diski
• Carl Elliott
• Barbara Everett
• Thomas Jones
• Paul Laity
• Ilan Pappe
• Iain Sinclair
• Nicholas Spice
• Christopher Tayler
• Emily Wilson

Contents

• Alan Bennett
  A Shameful Year

• Letters
  Leo Baxendale, L.J. Hurst, Ross Arthur, Alex Dillon, Malcolm Gluck, Dewi Jones, Gautam Premnath, Mieke Gordon, Paul Kriwaczek, Editor, ‘London Review’, Bill Guariento, John Barnes, Geoffrey Ridley Barrow

• Jenny Diski

  • The Boy by Germaine Greer

• Peter Campbell
  At The Whitechapel: Gerhard Richter

• Nicholas Spice

  • Wild Analysis by Sigmund Freud, edited by Adam Phillips, translated by Alan Bance

• Michael Byers
  The Ultimate Justice Show: The trial of Saddam

• Ilan Pappe
  The Geneva Bubble: The prehistory of the latest proposals

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: dictators’ bunkers

• Paul Laity

  • Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War by Tammy Proctor

• Carl Elliott

  • Constructing RSI: Belief and Desire by Yolande Lucire
  • Meaning, Medicine and the ‘Placebo Effect’ by Daniel Moerman

• John Burnside
  Poem: ‘Haar’

• Barbara Everett
  Love with Time Let in: ‘The Winter’s Tale’

• Emily Wilson

  • If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson
  • The Sappho History by Margaret Reynolds
  • Sappho's Leap by Erica Jong

• Christopher Tayler

  • Set This House in Order by Matt Ruff

• Iain Sinclair
  Diary: Out of Essex