Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Peter Campbell
• Jenny Diski
• Sheila Fitzpatrick
• Colin Jones
• Walid Khazendar
• Ross McKibbin
• Barbara Newman
• Tom Paulin
• Adam Phillips
• Bernard Porter
• Robin Robertson
• David Simpson
• Daniel Soar
• Nicholas Spice
• John Sutherland
• Theo Tait
• Gillian White
• Slavoj Žižek

Contents

• Nicholas Spice

  • Everyman by Philip Roth

• Letters
  Donald Baker, Philip Zelikow, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, Roger Jones

• Gillian White

  • Edgar Allan Poe & the Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts and Fragments by Elizabeth Bishop, edited by Alice Quinn

• Ross McKibbin
  The Reshuffle and After: Why Brown should Resign

• Peter Campbell
  At the National Gallery: Gentile Bellini

• Jenny Diski

  • Nothing like a Dame: The Scandals of Shirley Porter by Andrew Hosken

• Bernard Porter

  • British Documents on the End of Empire Series B Vol. 9: Central Africa: Part I: Closer Association 1945-58 by Philip Murphy
  • British Documents on the End of Empire Series B Vol. 9: Central Africa: Part II: Crisis and Dissolution 1959-65 by Philip Murphy

• Sheila Fitzpatrick

  • Everything Was For Ever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation by Alexei Yurchak

• Daniel Soar
  Short Cuts: What Ahmadinejad Meant

• David Simpson

  • The Destruction of Memory: Architecture at War by Robert Bevan

• Walid Khazendar translated by Tom Paulin
  Four Poems

• Colin Jones

  • Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom by Roger Pearson
  • Le Monde des salons by Antoine Lilti

• Robin Robertson
  Poem: ‘Out in the Open’

• Barbara Newman

  • Lark in the Morning: The Verses of the Troubadours translated by Ezra Pound, W.D. Snodgrass and Robert Kehew, edited by Robert Kehew
  • Medieval Lyric: Middle English Lyrics, Ballads and Carols edited by John Hirsh
  • An Anthology of Ancient and Medieval Woman’s Song edited by Anne Klinck

• Adam Phillips

  • Why?: What Happens When People Give Reasons . . . and Why by Charles Tilly

• Slavoj Žižek
  Freud Lives!: dreaming

• Theo Tait

  • The Worms Can Carry Me to Heaven by Alan Warner

• John Sutherland
  Diary: Do books have a future?