Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Perry Anderson
• Alan Bennett
• David Bromwich
• Peter Campbell
• Mary Ann Caws
• Lucy Daniel
• Thomas Jones
• R.F. Langley
• Yitzhak Laor
• Patrick McGuinness
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Simon Schaffer
• John Sutherland
• Christopher Turner
• David Wheatley
• Richard White
• Michael Wood
• Patrick Wormald
• Slavoj Žižek

Contents

• Michael Wood

  • Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Edith Grossman

• Letters
  Lewis Harvey, Jim Harper, Anthony Fenton, Timothy Williams, Virginia Tilley, Bas Sprakes, Joanna Kavenna, Eoin Dillon

• David Bromwich

  • Orson Welles: The Stories of His Life by Peter Conrad

• Patrick McGuinness
  Poem: ‘[Dust]’

• Perry Anderson
  Stand-Off in Taiwan: Greens v. Blues in the South China Sea

• Peter Campbell
  On the way to Maidenhead: Deep holes and narrow tracks at Paddington

• Yitzhak Laor
  Before Rafah: Israeli militarism

• Slavoj Žižek
  Between Two Deaths: The Culture of Torture

• Alan Bennett
  The History Boy: exam-taking

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: The life expectancy of a Roman emperor

• John Sutherland

  • Isherwood by Peter Parker

• Lucy Daniel

  • Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson

• Mary Ann Caws

  • Robert Desnos, Surrealism, and the Marvellous in Everyday Life by Katharine Conley

• Simon Schaffer

  • Volta: Science and Culture in the Age of Enlightenment by Giuliano Pancaldi

• Patrick Wormald

  • The Battle of Hastings, 1066 by M.K. Lawson
  • The Normans: The History of a Dynasty by David Crouch
  • Domesday Book: A Complete Translation edited by Ann Williams and G.H. Martin

• R.F. Langley
  Poem: ‘Cash Point’

• Richard White

  • The Sioux: The Dakota and Lakota Nations by Guy Gibbon

• David Wheatley

  • Irish Literary Magazines: An Outline History and Descriptive Bibliography

• Andrew O’Hagan
  Disgrace under Pressure: lad mags

  • Stag & Groom Magazine edited by Perdita Patterson
  • Zoo edited by Paul Merrill
  • Nuts edited by Phil Hilton
  • Loaded edited by Martin Daubney
  • Jack edited by Michael Hodges
  • Esquire edited by Simon Tiffin
  • GQ edited by Dylan Jones
  • Men’s Health edited by Morgan Rees
  • Arena Homme Plus: ‘The Boys of Summer’ edited by Ashley Heath

• Christopher Turner
  Diary: Summerhill School and the real Orgasmatron