CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Neal Ascherson
• James Buchan
• Peter Campbell
• Norman Dombey
• Susan Eilenberg
• Fredric Jameson
• Maya Jasanoff
• John Lanchester
• Donald MacKenzie
• Paul Myerscough
• Bernard Porter
• Charles Reeve
• Neil Rollinson
• Colm Tóibín
• Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Contents

• Colm Tóibín
  My Darlings: Drinking with Samuel Beckett

• Letters
  Gérard Prunier, Matthew Moore, Sean Coleman, Jannie Armstrong, David Rubenstein, Charlie Beckett, Howard Millbank, Eric Metcalfe, Richard Tagart, Axel Harvey, Jack Harris

• Bernard Porter

  • Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal

• Maya Jasanoff

  • Occupational Hazards: My Time Governing in Iraq by Rory Stewart

• James Buchan

  • The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in 18th-Century Britain, Ireland and America by Richard Sher

• Ruth Bernard Yeazell

  • Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee

• Susan Eilenberg

  • Imposture by Benjamin Markovits

• Neil Rollinson
  Poem: ‘Demolition’

• Fredric Jameson

  • Japan-ness in Architecture by Arata Isozaki, translated by Sabu Kohso

• John Lanchester
  Short Cuts: Climate Change

• Peter Campbell

  • Ove Arup: Masterbuilder of the 20th Century by Peter Jones

• Charles Reeve

  • Art Czar: The Rise and Fall of Clement Greenberg by Alice Goldfarb Marquis

• Donald MacKenzie
  The Political Economy of Carbon Trading: A Ratchet

• Peter Campbell
  At the British Museum: John White’s New World

• Norman Dombey
  What is Trident for?: America’s Poodle

  • The Future of the UK’s Strategic Nuclear Deterrent: The White Paper, Cm. 6994
  • The Future of the UK’s Strategic Nuclear Deterrent: The White Paper. Ninth Report, House of Commons Defence Committee, HC 225-I

• Paul Myerscough
  The Flow

  • The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom directed by Adam Curtis

• Neal Ascherson
  Diary: Scotophobia