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CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Perry Anderson
• Peter Campbell
• Philip Connors
• Norman Dombey
• Denis Donoghue
• Rubén Gallo
• Peter Gizzi
• Tessa Hadley
• John Lanchester
• Alison Light
• Stephen Mulhall
• Susan Pedersen
• Christopher Tayler
• Charles Tripp
• John Welch
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Perry Anderson
  Russia’s Managed Democracy: Why Putin?

• Letters
  Sue Rabbitt Roff, Sam Abrams, John Lovering, Lammert de Jong, Richard Tugwell, Rupert Haigh, Eugene Goodheart, Raymond Clayton, Chris Harman, Jeremy Harding, Rachel Ware, Thomas Jones

• John Welch
  Poem: ‘Star Fish’

• Christopher Tayler

  • The Mission Song by John le Carré

• Philip Connors

  • The Road by Cormac McCarthy

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: Babel

  • Babel directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu

• Tessa Hadley

  • The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro

• Alison Light

  • Rebel Girls: Their Fight for the Vote by Jill Liddington

• John Lanchester
  Short Cuts: The Rise and Rise of Spam

• Susan Pedersen

  • . . . If Love Were All: The Story of Frances Stevenson and David Lloyd George by John Campbell

• Peter Gizzi
  Two Poems

• Denis Donoghue

  • T.S. Eliot by Craig Raine

• Stephen Mulhall

  • The Objective Eye: Colour, Form and Reality in the Theory of Art by John Hyman

• Charles Tripp
  Militias, Vigilantes, Death Squads: Iraq’s Shadow State

• Peter Campbell
  At the British Library: Mapping London

• Norman Dombey
  Iran and the Bomb: Don’t Do It

• Rubén Gallo
  Diary: Mexico’s Shadow Presidency