CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• John Bossy
• Peter Campbell
• Anne Carson
• T.J. Clark
• Gillian Darley
• Jenny Diski
• Michael Friedman
• Jeremy Harding
• Thomas Jones
• Thomas Karshan
• John Lanchester
• Susan Pedersen
• Andrew Saint
• Rory Stewart
• Theo Tait
• Tom Vanderbilt

Contents

• John Lanchester

  • David Blunkett by Stephen Pollard

• Letters
  Valerie Yule, Clive James, Jeremy Bernstein, Subho Basu, Gerard McBurney, Myron Kaplan, Matt Cavanagh, J.R. Pole

• Jenny Diski

  • The Insider: The Private Diaries of a Scandalous Decade by Piers Morgan

• Anne Carson
  Poem: ‘On Discovering at Dinner that Adam Zagajewski and I Share a Birthday’

• Rory Stewart

  • What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building by Noah Feldman
  • Blinded by the Sunlight: Surviving Abu Ghraib and Saddam’s Iraq by Matthew McAllester
  • The Fall of Baghdad by Jon Lee Anderson
  • The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq by Christian Parenti

• John Bossy

  • The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery by Ingrid Rowland

• Jeremy Harding
  Mother One, Mother Two searches for his parents

• T.J. Clark
  Poem: ‘Manet and Monet and Marx and Freud’

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Michael Jackson’s frailties

• Theo Tait

  • The Final Solution by Michael Chabon

• Peter Campbell
  At the National Gallery: Caravaggio’s final years

• Thomas Karshan

  • Villages by John Updike

• Michael Friedman

  • The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity by Raymond Knapp

• Gillian Darley

  • Betjeman: The Bonus of Laughter by Bevis Hillier

• Andrew Saint

  • Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City by Tristram Hunt

• Susan Pedersen

  • Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London by Seth Koven

• Tom Vanderbilt
  Diary: The View from Above