Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Andrew Bacevich
• Peter Campbell
• Patrick Cockburn
• David Coward
• Gillian Darley
• Terry Eagleton
• Maya Jasanoff
• Martin Jay
• John Lanchester
• James Meek
• Don Paterson
• Mark Rudman
• Stephen Sedley
• Tom Shippey
• Alain Supiot
• Christopher Tayler
• James Wood
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Andrew Bacevich

  • Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq by Michael Gordon and Bernard Trainor

• Letters
  Christian Wolmar, Paul Dimoldenberg, Jerome Slater, Daniel Pipes, Salah el Serafy, Alex Fox, Sabah Salih, John Jenkins, Jeremy Harte, Ramnik Shah, Virginia Prieto-Fineberg

• Patrick Cockburn
  What the neighbours are up to: On the Iranian Border

• James Meek

  • Enemy Combatant: A British Muslim’s Journey to Guantánamo and Back by Moazzam Begg and Victoria Brittain

• Maya Jasanoff

  • For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and their Enemies by Robert Irwin

• James Wood

  • Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey

• Mark Rudman
  Poem: ‘Casino in Small C’

• Christopher Tayler

  • The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil and In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders

• Peter Campbell
  At the Scuderie del Quirinale: Antonello da Messina

• Stephen Sedley
  Towards a Right to Privacy: What to do with a prurient press?

• John Lanchester
  Short Cuts: cricket’s slanging matches

• Alain Supiot
  The Condition of France: the de-institutionalisation of the French

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: The Da Vinci Code

  • The Da Vinci Code directed by Ron Howard

• David Coward

  • Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family and Fatherland by Carmen Callil

• Terry Eagleton

  • Marcel Mauss: A Biography by Marcel Fournier, translated by Jane Marie Todd

• Martin Jay

  • Karl Jaspers, a Biography: Navigations in Truth by Suzanne Kirkbright

• Don Paterson
  Poem: ‘Three Versions from Rilke’s ‘Sonnets to Orpheus’’

• Tom Shippey

  • The Anglo-Saxon Library by Michael Lapidge

• Gillian Darley
  Diary: John Evelyn and his gardens