Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Neal Ascherson
• Anne Barton
• Julian Bell
• Dinah Birch
• Peter Campbell
• James Davidson
• Terry Eagleton
• Mark Ford
• Anatol Lieven
• Margaret MacMillan
• Bill Manhire
• Ian Sansom
• Daniel Soar
• John Sturrock
• E.S. Turner

Contents

• Neal Ascherson

  • The Prophet Armed: Trotsky 1879-21 by Isaac Deutscher
  • The Prophet Unarmed: Trotsky 1921-29 by Isaac Deutscher
  • The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky 1929-40 by Isaac Deutscher

• Letters
  Slavoj Žižek, Christina Gombar, Abigail King, Rollo Burgess, Jack Adrian, Lindesay Irvine, Julian Rathbone, George Wedd

• Anatol Lieven

  • What’s the Matter with America? The Resistible Rise of the American Right by Thomas Frank

• Margaret MacMillan

  • Cataclysm: The First World War as Political Tragedy by David Stevenson

• James Davidson

  • The Road to Delphi: The Life and Afterlife of Oracles by Michael Wood

• Daniel Soar

  • The Double by José Saramago, translated by Margaret Jull Costa

• John Sturrock
  Short Cuts: football slang

• Ian Sansom

  • Some Great Thing by Colin McAdam

• Julian Bell

  • William Coldstream by Bruce Laughton

• Bill Manhire
  Two Poems

• E.S. Turner

  • Metro-Land: British Empire Exhibition Number by Oliver Green

• Terry Eagleton

  • From the Shadow of Dracula: A Life of Bram Stoker by Paul Murray

• Peter Campbell
  At Tate Britain: Paula Rego

• Dinah Birch

  • Anny: A Life of Anne Thackeray Ritchie by Henrietta Garnett

• Anne Barton

  • The English Romance in Time: Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare by Helen Cooper

• Mark Ford
  Love and Theft: plagiarism