Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Perry Anderson
• Andy Beckett
• Peter de Bolla
• Peter Campbell
• Lorraine Daston
• Terry Eagleton
• Tessa Hadley
• James Hamilton-Paterson
• Thomas Jones
• John Kinsella
• James Morone
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Nicholas Penny
• David Simpson
• Theodore Ziolkowski

Contents

• David Simpson

  • My Life by Bill Clinton

• Letters
  Jim Harper, Julian Rathbone, Phyllis Goldberg, Christopher Wintle, Nick Sweeney, Hamilton Scott, Güneli Gün, Gail Levin, Joe Baker

• Andrew O’Hagan
  The God Squad: Bushland

• John Kinsella
  Poem: ‘A Swarm of Paragliders: A Poem of Abuse’

• Perry Anderson

  • Le Rappel à l’ordre: Enquête sur les nouveaux réactionnaires by Daniel Lindenberg
  • Esquisse pour une auto-analyse by Pierre Bourdieu
  • La République mondiale des lettres by Pascale Casanova

• Nicholas Penny

  • Goya by Robert Hughes

• Peter de Bolla

  • Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation by Gilles Deleuze, translated by Daniel Smith

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Not by Henry James

• Theodore Ziolkowski

  • Poems and Fragments by Friedrich Hölderlin, translated by Michael Hamburger

• Terry Eagleton

  • Author, Author: A Novel by David Lodge

• Andy Beckett

  • GB84 by David Peace

• Tessa Hadley

  • Case Histories: A Novel by Kate Atkinson

• Peter Campbell
  At the National Portrait Gallery: fashion photography

• Lorraine Daston

  • The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity: A Study in Sociological Semantics and the Sociology of Science by Robert Merton and Elinor Barber

• James Morone

  • Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson by Gore Vidal

• James Hamilton-Paterson
  Diary: what’s happened to the sea