CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Geoffrey Best
• Peter Campbell
• James Davidson
• Rose George
• Nicholas Guyatt
• Tony Harrison
• Thomas Jones
• Wyatt Mason
• Andrew O’Hagan
• David Reynolds
• David Runciman
• Alan Ryan
• Lorna Scott Fox
• Charles Simic
• Barbara Taylor
• Michael Wood

Contents

• David Runciman

  • Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth by Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro

• Letters
  Daniel Caola, David Elstein, Bernard Porter, John Calderon, Guy Braithwaite, Scott Herrick, Oliver Dennis

• Charles Simic
  Two Poems

• Michael Wood

  • The Ivory Tower by Henry James

• Andrew O’Hagan

  • True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa by Michael Finkel
  • Burning Down My Master’s House by Jayson Blair
  • The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm

• James Davidson

  • The Friend by Alan Bray

• Tony Harrison
  Poem: ‘On the Metre’

• Alan Ryan

  • Henry Sidgwick: Eye of the Universe by Bart Schultz

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: dissed

• Barbara Taylor

  • A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews

• Wyatt Mason

  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

• Lorna Scott Fox

  • Your Face Tomorrow 1: Fever and Spear by Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa
  • The Man of Feeling by Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa

• Nicholas Guyatt

  • Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South by Michael O’Brien

• David Reynolds

  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Roy Jenkins
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt by Patrick Renshaw
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom by Conrad Black

• Geoffrey Best

  • Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry and Britain’s Road to War by Ian Kershaw

• Peter Campbell
  At the V&A: Penguin’s 70th birthday

• Rose George
  Diary: a report from post-civil war Liberia