Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Michael Byers
• Peter Campbell
• Sheila Fitzpatrick
• Paul Foot
• Jeremy Harding
• Stephen Holmes
• M.J. Hyland
• R.W. Johnson
• Thomas Jones
• Ilan Pappe
• Robin Robertson
• Ian Sansom
• Barbara Taylor
• Colm Tóibín

Contents

• Ilan Pappe
  As long as the plan contains the magic term ‘withdrawal’, it is seen as a good thing: Israel heads for disaster

• Letters
  Peter Hallward, Jacqueline Rose, Lauro Martines, Yisrael Medad, Peter Connolly, Vincent Deary, Bernard Bergonzi, Murray Biggs, Harvey Dickson, Jeremy Bernstein

• Colm Tóibín
  A Priest in the Family: A Story

• Robin Robertson
  Four Poems

• Stephen Holmes
  No Grand Strategy and No Ultimate Aim: US policy in Iraq

  • Incoherent Empire by Michael Mann

• Jeremy Harding

  • New Collected Poems by George Oppen, edited by Michael Davidson

• Peter Campbell
  At Somerset House: Islamic art

• Sheila Fitzpatrick

  • The Diary of a Soviet Schoolgirl 1932-37 by Nina Lugovskaya, translated by Joanne Turnbull

• Barbara Taylor

  • Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation by Thomas Laqueur

• Jeremy Harding
  Short Cuts: France’s role in Rwanda

• Thomas Jones

  • The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst

• Michael Byers
  A New Type of War: Blair and Bush reach for an international law for crusaders and conquistadors

• Paul Foot

  • Reform! The Fight for the 1832 Reform Act by Edward Pearce

• R.W. Johnson

  • The Lion and the Springbok: Britain and South Africa since the Boer War by Ronald Hyam and Peter Henshaw

• Ian Sansom

  • John Fowles: The Journals, Vol. I edited by Charles Drazin
  • John Fowles: A Life in Two Worlds by Eileen Warburton

• M.J. Hyland
  Diary: a memoir