Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Peter Campbell
• Patrick Collinson
• Jenny Diski
• Charles Glass
• Thomas Jones
• John Kinsella
• Nick Laird
• Liam McIlvanney
• Caroline Maclean
• Wyatt Mason
• John Mullan
• Tom Nairn
• Hugh Pennington
• Bernard Porter
• Corey Robin
• William Wootten

Contents

• Corey Robin

  • The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War by Greg Grandin

• Letters
  Rupert Read, Julian Rathbone, Samir El-youssef, Jack Adrian, W.J. Johnston, Halina Filipowicz, Keith Flett, Timothy Knapman, Lorna Scott Fox, Colin Armstrong, Don Locke, Ian Johnston, Sheridan Nye

• John Kinsella
  Poem: ‘Riding the Cobra at the York Show’

• Jenny Diski

  • The Man who Shocked the World: The Life and Legacy of Stanley Milgram by Thomas Blass

• Patrick Collinson

  • The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn by Eric Ives

• Charles Glass
  ‘You can have patience or you can have carnage’: in Afghanistan

• Bernard Porter

  • Lord Cromer: Victorian Imperialist, Edwardian Proconsul by Roger Owen

• Wyatt Mason

  • Oblivion: Stories by David Foster Wallace

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Dick Cheney’s Homepage

• Caroline Maclean

  • Dining on Stones, or, The Middle Ground by Iain Sinclair

• John Mullan

  • London Calling: How Black and Asian Writers Imagined a City by Sukhdev Sandhu

• Peter Campbell
  At the Royal Academy: the art of William Nicholson

• Liam McIlvanney

  • The Electric Shepherd: A Likeness of James Hogg by Karl Miller
  • Altrive Tales by James Hogg, edited by Gillian Hughes

• William Wootten

  • Edwin Morgan: Inventions of Modernity by Colin Nicholson
  • Beowulf translated by Edwin Morgan
  • Cathures by Edwin Morgan

• Hugh Pennington

  • Shopped: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets by Joanna Blythman
  • Not on the Label: What Really Goes into the Food on Your Plate by Felicity Lawrence
  • Food Policy Old and New edited by Simon Maxwell and Rachel Slater

• Nick Laird
  Two Poems

• Tom Nairn
  Diary: Australian Blues