Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Alan Bennett
• Peter Campbell
• Landis Everson
• Tessa Hadley
• Thomas Jones
• Frank Kermode
• Ross McKibbin
• Nicholas Penny
• David Runciman
• Charles Simic
• Daniel Soar
• Jenny Turner
• Eliot Weinberger
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Ross McKibbin
  The Destruction of the Public Sphere: Brown v. Cameron

• Letters
  Donald Gillies, Paul Cheshire, Eric Lee, Ivor Potts, Paul Tickell, Jim Jenkins, Eoin Dillon, Leonard Benardo, Richard Cummings, Gillian Nelson, Charles Glass, Alan Jenkins

• Eliot Weinberger
  What I heard about Iraq in 2005: Iraq

• Michael Wood

  • The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

• Landis Everson
  Two Poems

• Frank Kermode

  • Doubting Thomas by Glenn Most

• Nicholas Penny

  • The New Palaces of Medieval Venice by Juergen Schulz
  • Private Lives in Renaissance Venice by Patricia Fortini Brown

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: ‘Extraordinary Rendition’

• Jenny Turner

  • My Mother’s Wedding Dress: The Fabric of Our Lives by Justine Picardie

• Peter Campbell
  At Tate Modern: Henri Rousseau

• Tessa Hadley

  • Constitutional by Helen Simpson

• Daniel Soar

  • Indecision by Benjamin Kunkel

• David Runciman

  • Mourinho: Anatomy of a Winner by Patrick Barclay

• Charles Simic
  Two Poems

• Alan Bennett
  Diary: What I did in 2005