Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi
• Neal Ascherson
• Eleanor Birne
• Peter Campbell
• Patrick Cockburn
• Paul Ginsborg
• Nicholas Guyatt
• Anne Hollander
• Robert Irwin
• Thomas Jones
• Frank Kermode
• R.F. Langley
• Thomas Laqueur
• Frances Richard
• Andrew Saint
• Michael Wood
• Slavoj Žižek

Contents

• Thomas Laqueur

  • Retroactive Justice: Prehistory of Post-Communism by István Rév

• Letters
  Adam Glantz, Michael Szanto, Daniel Pipes, Jeffrey Herf and Andrei Markovits, Michael Taylor, Chris Oakley, Christopher Hitchens, Basil Morley, Toby Shelley, James Mishalani, Lesley Marshall, Evan Riley, James Hannah, Adrian Bowyer

• Slavoj Žižek
  Nobody has to be vile: The Philanthropic Enemy

• Neal Ascherson

  • The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape and the Making of Modern Germany by David Blackbourn

• Paul Ginsborg
  Is Berlusconi finished?: The Italian Election

• R.F. Langley
  Poem: ‘The Bellini in San Giovanni Crisostomo’

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: ‘L’Enfant’

  • L’Enfant directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
  • Caché directed by Michael Haneke

• Frank Kermode

  • Life, End of by Christine Brooke-Rose

• Eleanor Birne

  • The Observations by Jane Harris

• Anne Hollander

  • Dressed in Fiction by Clair Hughes

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Ian Blair and the IPCC

• Frances Richard

  • Art since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism by Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois and Benjamin H.D. Buchloh

• Andrew Saint

  • Sprawl: A Compact History by Robert Bruegmann

• Peter Campbell
  At the British Museum: Michelangelo’s Drawings

• Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi
  Poem: ‘Poem of the Nile’

• Robert Irwin

  • Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of the Great Explorer by Alexander Maitland

• Nicholas Guyatt

  • Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama

• Patrick Cockburn
  Diary: The End of Iraq