Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Moustafa Bayoumi
• Michael Byers
• Peter Campbell
• Peter Clarke
• Seamus Heaney
• Thomas Jones
• Joanna Kavenna
• Maurice Keen
• Stephen Knight
• Nick Laird
• James Meek
• John Mullan
• Tom Nairn
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Daniel Soar
• John Sutherland

Contents

• James Meek

  • The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground Was Built and How It Changed the City For Ever by Christian Wolmar

• Letters
  Hilary Fanning, Paul Taylor, Chris Purnell, Liz Willis, Katharine Fletcher, Harvey Francis, Ana María Sánchez-Arce, David Dyzenhaus, Fiona Allen, Robert Brain

• Michael Byers
  Flyweight Belligerents: à la carte multilateralism

• Seamus Heaney
  Three Poems

• Tom Nairn

  • Multitude by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri

• Andrew O’Hagan
  Four Funerals and a Wedding: If something happens to me…

• Stephen Knight
  Two Poems

• Maurice Keen

  • Hawkwood: Diabolical Englishman by Frances Stonor Saunders

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

• Nick Laird
  The dogs in the street know that: A Week in Mid-Ulster

• Peter Clarke

  • Liberal Lion: Jo Grimond, a Political Life by Peter Barberis

• Peter Campbell
  At Tate Modern: Like a badly iced cake

• John Sutherland

  • Publisher by Tom Maschler
  • British Book Publishing as a Business since the 1960s by Eric de Bellaigue
  • Penguin Special: The Life and Times of Allen Lane by Jeremy Lewis

• John Mullan

  • The One v. the Many: Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel by Alex Woloch

• Joanna Kavenna

  • Rapids by Tim Parks

• Daniel Soar

  • Chinese Letter by Svetislav Basara, translated by Ana Lucic

• Moustafa Bayoumi
  Diary: In Beirut’s Tent City