Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Andrew Bacevich
• Peter Campbell
• Stefan Collini
• Billy Collins
• David Coward
• Francis FitzGibbon
• Sophie Harrison
• Maya Jasanoff
• R.F. Langley
• Tim Parks
• Laura Quinney
• Stephen Sedley
• Frederick Seidel
• Daniel Soar
• John Sturrock
• Alain Supiot
• E.S. Turner
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Tim Parks

  • Rome or Death: The Obsessions of General Garibaldi by Daniel Pick

• Letters
  Catherine Conybeare, Guy Hartcup, Anthony Julius, David Elstein, Conrad Cork, Karl Dallas, Don Share

• Andrew Bacevich

  • Douglas Haig: War Diaries and Letters 1914-18 edited by Gary Sheffield and John Bourne

• Maya Jasanoff

  • The Indian Mutiny and the British Imagination by Gautam Chakravarty

• Billy Collins
  Poem: ‘Building with Its Face Blown Off’

• Daniel Soar

  • My Life in CIA: A Chronicle of 1973 by Harry Mathews

• Michael Wood

  • The People’s Act of Love by James Meek

• Stephen Sedley

  • The Trial: A History from Socrates to O.J. Simpson by Sadakat Kadri

• Francis FitzGibbon
  The Case of N.: The strange world of asylum law

• Alain Supiot
  Refeudalising Europe: The Perils of Thinking in English

• John Sturrock
  The London Bombs: in Bloomsbury

• David Coward

  • Memoirs of a Breton Peasant by Jean-Marie Déguignet, translated by Linda Asher

• Frederick Seidel
  Poem: ‘France for Boys’

• Stefan Collini

  • Herbert Butterfield: Historian as Dissenter by C.T. McIntire

• Peter Campbell
  At Tate Modern (and elsewhere): How architects think

• E.S. Turner

  • The Imaginary Autocrat: Beau Nash and the Invention of Bath by John Eglin

• R.F. Langley
  Poem: ‘At Sotterley’

• Laura Quinney

  • October by Louise Glück

• Sophie Harrison
  Diary: taking blood