CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Brian Barder
• Geoffrey Best
• Peter Campbell
• Patrick Cockburn
• David Edgar
• Stephen Fender
• John Gittings
• Tessa Hadley
• Thomas Jones
• Ross McKibbin
• Ruth Padel
• Graham Robb
• Jacqueline Rose
• John Sutherland
• Theo Tait
• Christopher Tayler
• David Thomson
• Michael Wood

Contents

• David Thomson

  • Where I Was From by Joan Didion

• Letters
  Patrick Wormald, Daniel Dennett, John Welch, Wilfred Beckerman, Lee Goodare, Mark Erickson, Reuven Kaminer, William Schober, Leonard Benardo, Robert Macfarlane

• Ross McKibbin

  • Margaret Thatcher, Vol. II: The Iron Lady by John Campbell

• Ruth Padel
  Poem: ‘The Forest, the Corrupt Official and a Bowl of Penis Soup’

• Jacqueline Rose

  • Death as a Way of Life: Dispatches from Jerusalem by David Grossman
  • Someone to Run With by David Grossman

• Peter Campbell
  At the Hayward: Roy Lichtenstein

• David Edgar

  • Arthur Miller: A Life by Martin Gottfried

• Michael Wood

  • The Master by Colm Tóibín

• Theo Tait

  • Oracle Night by Paul Auster

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Alastair Campbell, Good Bloke

• Christopher Tayler

  • Bay of Souls by Robert Stone

• Tessa Hadley

  • The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler

• Stephen Fender

  • Portrait of America: A Cultural History of the Federal Writers’ Project by Jerrold Hirsch

• John Sutherland
  A Plumless Pudding: The Great John Murray Archive Disaster

• John Gittings

  • Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the China He Lost by Jonathan Fenby

• Geoffrey Best

  • Prof: The Life of Frederick Lindemann by Adrian Fort

• Graham Robb

  • Memoirs of Vidocq: Master of Crime

• Brian Barder
  On SIAC explains why he resigned from the Special Immigration Appeals Commission

• Patrick Cockburn
  Diary: a report from Baghdad