CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Tariq Ali
• Robert Alter
• Julian Bell
• Peter Campbell
• Peter Clarke
• James Davidson
• Jorie Graham
• Jeremy Harding
• R.W. Johnson
• John Lanchester
• David Nasaw
• Sameer Rahim
• Matthew Reynolds
• Robin Robertson
• David Runciman
• Christopher Tayler
• Leo Turner
• Michael Wood
• Jonathan Wright

Contents

• Jeremy Harding

  • The Narrow Foothold by Carina Birman

• Letters
  David Fisher, Bill Tilles, Niall Mulholland, Sean Coleman, David Elstein, George Paizis, Michael Egan, Graham Pechey

• Robin Robertson
  Poem: ‘Strindberg in Berlin’

• Julian Bell

  • Colour in Art by John Gage

• Tariq Ali

  • America’s Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier by Robert Vitalis
  • Contesting the Saudi State: Islamic Voices from a New Generation by Madawi Al-Rasheed

• Matthew Reynolds

  • The Poems of John Dryden: Vol. V 1697-1700 edited by Paul Hammond and David Hopkins
  • Dryden: Selected Poems edited by Paul Hammond and David Hopkins

• Peter Campbell
  At the Courtauld: Cranach’s Nudes

• Robert Alter

  • Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible by Karel van der Toorn

• Leo Turner

  • Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcón

• Christopher Tayler

  • Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris

• Sameer Rahim

  • The Islamist by Ed Husain

• John Lanchester
  Short Cuts: Manhunt 2

• James Davidson

  • Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum
  • Polytheism and Society at Athens by Robert Parker

• Jonathan Wright

  • The Third Reich in Power by Richard Evans
  • The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam Tooze

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies

• R.W. Johnson

  • Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre

• Jorie Graham
  Poem: ‘Underworld’

• Peter Clarke

  • Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction by Thomas K. McCraw

• David Nasaw

  • Mellon: An American Life by David Cannadine

• David Runciman
  Diary: Dylan on the radio