Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Peter Campbell
• John Connelly
• David Edgar
• Hal Foster
• Ed Harriman
• R.W. Johnson
• Thomas Jones
• Tom Leonard
• Michael Longley
• Hilary Mantel
• Edwin Morgan
• Christian Parenti
• Christopher Prendergast
• Simon Schaffer
• Steven Shapin
• Theo Tait
• David Trotter

Contents

• Ed Harriman
  Where has all the money gone?: On the Take in Iraq

  • US House of Representatives Government Reform Committee Minority Office
  • US General Accountability Office
  • Defense Contract Audit Agency
  • International Advisory and Monitoring Board
  • Coalition Provisional Authority Inspector General
  • Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction

• Letters
  John Nottingham, Andy Lyall, Anne Summers, Robert Brain, Carla O’Keefe

• Edwin Morgan
  Poem: ‘The Old Man and E.A.P’

• Steven Shapin

  • Don’t You Have Time to Think? The Letters of Richard Feynman edited by Michelle Feynman

• Hilary Mantel

  • A Game with Sharpened Knives by Neil Belton

• Theo Tait

  • Desertion by Abdulrazak Gurnah

• David Edgar
  What are we telling the nation?: Thoughts about the BBC

  • Uncertain Vision: Birt, Dyke and the Reinvention of the BBC by Georgina Born
  • Building Public Value: Renewing the BBC for a Digital World

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: ‘Anthrax’!

• David Trotter

  • The Pisan Cantos by Ezra Pound, edited by Richard Sieburth
  • Poems and Translations by Ezra Pound, edited by Richard Sieburth

• Tom Leonard
  Poem: ‘The Fair Cop’

• Simon Schaffer

  • A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table by Michael Gordin

• John Connelly

  • The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy 1939-42 by Christopher Browning

• Hal Foster
  Yellow Ribbons: kitsch in Bush’s America

• Peter Campbell
  At Tate Britain: Reynolds’s theatrical portraits

• R.W. Johnson
  Burning Blankets: Robert Mugabe’s latest tidy-up

• Christopher Prendergast

  • Romans: Tome I by Georges Simenon
  • Romans: Tome II by Georges Simenon

• Michael Longley
  Three Poems

• Christian Parenti
  Who owns the rain?: The Impasse in Bolivia