Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Tariq Ali
• Neal Ascherson
• Simon Bradley
• Colin Burrow
• Peter Campbell
• Polly Clark
• David Coward
• Terry Eagleton
• Thomas Jones
• August Kleinzahler
• Hilary Mantel
• Hugh Miles
• James Morone
• Robert Potts
• Daniel Soar
• Stephen Walsh
• James Wood
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Hilary Mantel

  • The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History by Linda Colley

• Letters
  Andrew Sugden, Ken Worpole, Perry Anderson, Tim Jeal, Bernard Porter, Elliot Feldman

• Hugh Miles
  Inconvenient Truths: Who put the bomb on Pan Am 103?

• Stephen Walsh

  • Shostakovich: A Life Remembered by Elizabeth Wilson

• Terry Eagleton

  • Mikhail Bakhtin: The Word in the World by Graham Pechey

• Peter Campbell
  On the Skyline: Antony Gormley

• Colin Burrow

  • Hamlet edited by Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor
  • Hamlet: The Texts of 1603 and 1623 edited by Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor
  • ‘Hamlet’ without Hamlet by Margreta de Grazia

• August Kleinzahler
  Poem: ‘Anniversary’

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: ‘L’Armée des ombres’

• Robert Potts

  • Look We Have Coming to Dover! by Daljit Nagra

• Daniel Soar
  Short Cuts: Putin on Judo

• James Wood

  • All Aunt Hagar’s Children by Edward P. Jones

• Thomas Jones

  • What Is the What by Dave Eggers

• Neal Ascherson

  • The Berlin Wall: 13 August 1961 – 9 November 1989 by Frederick Taylor

• Polly Clark
  Two Poems

• James Morone

  • Wall Street: A Cultural History by Steve Fraser
  • Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors by Charles S. Maier

• Simon Bradley

  • London in the 19th Century: ‘A Human Awful Wonder of God’ by Jerry White

• David Coward

  • Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War by Martha Hanna

• Tariq Ali
  Diary: in Cochabamba