CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Eleanor Birne
• John Burnside
• Peter Campbell
• Patrick Cockburn
• Carolin Crawford
• Partha Dasgupta
• Eric Foner
• Ian Gilmour
• Robert Irwin
• Thomas Jones
• Frank Kermode
• August Kleinzahler
• Elizabeth Lowry
• Ross McKibbin
• James Morone
• Ilan Pappe
• Corey Robin
• Theo Tait
• David Wheatley

Contents

• Frank Kermode

  • William Empson: Vol. I: Among the Mandarins by John Haffenden

• Letters
  Niall Ferguson, Neil Vickers, Richard Guy, Geoffrey Best, David Seddon, Sydney Bernard Smith, Graham Brown, Timothy Knapman

• Ross McKibbin
  What Blair Threw Away: Feckless, Irresponsible and Back in Power

• John Burnside
  Poem: ‘Responses to Augustine of Hippo. Part 3: De libero arbitrio’

• Robert Irwin

  • Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World by Justin Marozzi

• Corey Robin

  • Arguing about War by Michael Walzer
  • Chain of Command by Seymour Hersh
  • Torture: A Collection edited by Sanford Levinson

• Eric Foner

  • The Dominion of War: Empire and conflict in North America 1500-2000 by Fred Anderson and Andrew Cayton

• Ilan Pappe
  Fortress Israel: de-Arabisation

• James Morone

  • Born Losers: A History of Failure in America by Scott Sandage

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: ‘The Dinner Party’

• Partha Dasgupta

  • Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond

• Eleanor Birne

  • Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters

• Elizabeth Lowry

  • Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel

• David Wheatley
  Poem: ‘‘A Pint of Milk’’

• Theo Tait

  • The Bear Boy by Cynthia Ozick

• August Kleinzahler

  • Collected Poems by Lee Harwood

• Peter Campbell
  At the Royal Academy: Matisse’s revelations

• Ian Gilmour

  • Lady Caroline Lamb by Paul Douglass

• Carolin Crawford

  • The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene

• Patrick Cockburn
  Diary: a report from a divided Iraq