CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Tariq Ali
• Peter Campbell
• John Gittings
• Liz Jobey
• R.W. Johnson
• Paul Laity
• Ross McKibbin
• James Meek
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Hugh Pennington
• Robin Robertson
• Jacqueline Rose
• Ian Sansom
• Rebecca Solnit
• John Hartley Williams
• Anna Xiao Dong Sun

Contents

• James Meek

  • The Siberian Curse: How Communist Planners Left Russia out in the Cold by Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy

• Letters
  Andy Beckett, Kenneth Choy, A.J. Caston, Campbell Lennie, Yitzhak Laor, Rick Livingston, Ruth Franklin, Ian Carter, Graham Hall

• Tariq Ali

  • Nehru: A Political Life by Judith Brown
  • Nehru by Benjamin Zachariah

• John Gittings

  • One China, Many Paths edited by Wang Chaohua

• Anna Xiao Dong Sun

  • The Noodle Maker by Ma Jian, translated by Flora Drew

• Peter Campbell
  At Tate Britain: gardens

• Jacqueline Rose
  In Our Present-Day White Christian Culture: Freud and Zionism

• Robin Robertson
  Two Poems

• Ross McKibbin
  How to dislodge a leader who doesn’t want to go: Where are the Backbenchers?

• R.W. Johnson

  • Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience by Susan Pedersen

• Andrew O’Hagan
  Short Cuts: myths of Marilyn

• Paul Laity

  • Germany Calling: A Personal Biography of William Joyce, ‘Lord Haw-Haw’ by Mary Kenny
  • Lord Haw-Haw: The English Voice of Nazi Germany by Peter Martland

• Liz Jobey

  • Bill Brandt: A Life by Paul Delany
  • Bill Brandt: A Centenary Retrospective

• Hugh Pennington
  Why can’t doctors be more scientific?: The Great MMR Disaster

• John Hartley Williams
  Poem: ‘Dan Dare at the Cosmos Ballroom’

• Rebecca Solnit

  • Dante's Inferno by Sandow Birk and Marcus Sanders

• Ian Sansom
  Diary: I was a teenage evangelist