CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Richard Adams
• Perry Anderson
• Mary Beard
• John Burnside
• Colin Burrow
• Norman Dombey
• Barbara Everett
• Wilson Firth
• Hal Foster
• Thomas Jones
• Colin Kidd
• Lorna Scott Fox
• Alex Smith
• Christopher Tayler
• Michael Wood
• Slavoj Žižek

Contents

• Perry Anderson

  • La France qui tombe by Nicolas Baverez
  • La Face cachée du ‘Monde’: Du contre-pouvoir aux abus de pouvoir by Pierre Péan and Philippe Cohen

• Letters
  David Wootton, Jeffrey McGowan, Clifford Story, Michael Scott, Barnaby Conrad, James Grieve, John Williams, A.R.W. Forrest, Rodney Bolt, Rupert Read, Paul Taylor, Derek Robinson, Elizabeth Thompson Colleary, Ben Francis

• Michael Wood

  • Memoirs by Pablo Neruda, translated by Hardie St Martin
  • Isla Negra: A Bilingual Edition by Pablo Neruda, translated by Alastair Reid
  • The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems edited by Mark Eisner

• Slavoj Žižek

  • Free World: Why a Crisis of the West Reveals the Opportunity of Our Time by Timothy Garton Ash

• Colin Kidd

  • Birth of the Modern World 1780-1914: Global Connections and Comparisons by C.A. Bayly

• Christopher Tayler

  • Birds without Wings by Louis de Bernières

• Mary Beard

  • Nero by Edward Champlin

• John Burnside
  Poem: ‘Homage to Greta Garbo’

• Barbara Everett
  Whirligig: Thinking about Hamlet

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Pole-Vaulting

• Colin Burrow

  • The Prince and the Infanta: The Cultural Politics of the Spanish Match by Glyn Redworth

• Lorna Scott Fox

  • Martha Gellhorn: A Life by Caroline Moorehead

• Hal Foster
  At the Whitney: Ed Ruscha’s Hollywood Sublime

• Richard Adams

  • Aircraft by David Pascoe
  • Aviation Insecurity: The New Challenges of Air Travel by Andrew Thomas
  • Airline Survival Kit by Nawal Taneja
  • Ryanair by Siobhán Creaton

• Norman Dombey
  Not Iran, Not North Korea, Not Libya, but Pakistan: The Nuclear Threat

• Alex Smith
  Poem: ‘The Late Queen’s Jester’

• Wilson Firth
  Diary: A Psychiatrist’s Story