Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Colin Burrow
• Peter Campbell
• Patrick Cockburn
• Michael Dobson
• Paul Farley
• Ian Gilmour
• Tessa Hadley
• Eric Hobsbawm
• Thomas Jones
• August Kleinzahler
• Anatol Lieven
• Peter D. McDonald
• Bernard Porter
• E.S. Turner
• James Wood
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Bernard Porter

  • The Official History of the Falklands Campaign. Vol. I: The Origins of the Falklands War by Lawrence Freedman
  • The Official History of the Falklands Campaign. Vol. II: War and Diplomacy by Lawrence Freedman

• Letters
  Fatema Ahmed, Alex Smith, Richard Scott, David Runciman, Roger House, J.M.W. Scott, Mary Elkins, Nicholas von Maltzahn, Ken Seigneurie

• August Kleinzahler
  Two Poems

• Michael Dobson

  • 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro

• James Wood

  • The Power of Delight: A Lifetime in Literature: Essays 1962-2002 by John Bayley, selected by Leo Carey

• Anatol Lieven

  • The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War by Andrew Bacevich

• Ian Gilmour
  Vote for the Beast!: the Tory Leadership

• Michael Wood

  • Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow by Stanley Cavell

• Eric Hobsbawm
  Benefits of Diaspora: the Jewish Emancipation

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: How to concoct a conspiracy theory

• Tessa Hadley

  • All for Love by Dan Jacobson

• Peter Campbell
  At the Royal Academy: Edvard Munch’s troubles

• Peter D. McDonald

  • J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading: Literature in the Event by Derek Attridge
  • Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee

• Colin Burrow

  • Memoir by John McGahern

• E.S. Turner

  • The Liner: Retrospective and Renaissance by Philip Dawson, foreword by Stephen Payne

• Paul Farley
  Two Poems

• Patrick Cockburn
  Diary: Civil War in Baghdad