Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Neal Ascherson
• Peter Campbell
• Anne Carson
• Stefan Collini
• Robert Crawford
• Jenny Diski
• Norman Dombey
• Rose George
• Nicholas Guyatt
• R.W. Johnson
• Thomas Jones
• Colin Kidd
• August Kleinzahler
• Edward Luttwak
• Bill Manhire
• Andrew Nathan
• Rick Perlstein
• Emily Wilson

Contents

• Rick Perlstein

  • Jane Fonda’s War: A Political Biography of an Anti-war Icon by Mary Hershberger

• Letters
  William Livesey, Tony Neville, John Horsbrugh-Porter, John Alpe, Sean Gallagher, Derek Robinson, Nicholas Pole, Will Stevens, Christopher Prendergast

• Bill Manhire
  Poem: ‘An Inspector Calls’

• Neal Ascherson

  • Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945 by Tony Judt

• Andrew Nathan

  • Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday

• Peter Campbell
  At the British Museum: Samuel Palmer’s dream landscapes

• Stefan Collini

  • Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature by Lewis Dabney

• Robert Crawford
  Poem: ‘Coming to France’

• Emily Wilson

  • Hesitant Heroes: Private Inhibitions, Cultural Crisis by Theodore Ziolkowski

• Norman Dombey
  Short Cuts: Iraq, Uranium and Forged Intelligence

• August Kleinzahler

  • Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler 1951-91 edited by William Corbett

• Thomas Jones

  • The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood

• Edward Luttwak

  • Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity by J.E. Lendon

• R.W. Johnson

  • Dear Bill: A Memoir by W.F. Deedes

• Anne Carson
  Poem: ‘Zeus Bits’

• Jenny Diski

  • Take a Girl like Me: Life with George by Diana Melly
  • Slowing Down by George Melly

• Colin Kidd

  • 1776: America and Britain at War by David McCullough

• Nicholas Guyatt

  • His Excellency George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis

• Rose George
  Diary: in Dewsbury