CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Joanna Biggs
• Peter Campbell
• T.J. Clark
• Helen Deutsch
• David Edgar
• Jerry Fodor
• Mark Ford
• Hugh Haughton
• Tony Judt
• Agnieszka Kolakowska
• John Lanchester
• David Matthews
• Stephen Mulhall
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Gabriel Piterberg
• Alex Smith
• Daniel Soar
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Tony Judt
  Bush’s Useful Idiots: Whatever happened to American liberalism?

• Letters
  Henry Farmer, Alistair Dixon, Simon Barley, Shigeru Nagai, Helen DeWitt, David Loewe, Michael Fitzgerald, Agnieszka Hodgson, Anthony Chadwick, Patrick Wright, Evalyn Segal, Raymond Clayton

• T.J. Clark

  • Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism by Benedict Anderson
  • Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination by Benedict Anderson

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies

  • Volver directed by Pedro Almodóvar

• Jerry Fodor

  • The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of a Universe by Michael Frayn

• David Edgar

  • Bernard Shaw: A Life by A.M. Gibbs

• Gabriel Piterberg
  Travels in Israel: ‘Are you not from this country?’

• Andrew O’Hagan

  • The Arms of the Infinite by Christopher Barker

• John Lanchester
  Short Cuts: NASA’s new stick of dynamite

• Daniel Soar

  • The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein

• Joanna Biggs

  • Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl

• Stephen Mulhall

  • Stoic Life: Emotions, Duties and Fate by Tad Brennan

• Hugh Haughton
  Poem: ‘From an Abandoned Villanelle’

• Helen Deutsch

  • Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre by Paula Backscheider

• David Matthews

  • The Art of Fugue: Bach Fugues for Keyboard 1715-50 by Joseph Kerman

• Alex Smith
  Poem: ‘Peninsula’

• Peter Campbell
  At Chantilly: horses

• Mark Ford

  • T.S. Eliot: The Making of an American Poet by James E. Miller
  • The Annotated ‘Waste Land’ with Eliot’s Contemporary Prose by T.S. Eliot, edited by Lawrence Rainey
  • Revisiting ‘The Waste Land’ by Lawrence Rainey

• Agnieszka Kolakowska
  Diary: My Wife-Murderer