Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Peter Campbell
• Philip Connors
• Colin Dayan
• Jenny Diski
• Michael Dobson
• Norman Dombey
• Gerard Fanning
• John Foot
• Thomas Jones
• Michel Lechat
• Adewale Maja-Pearce
• Wyatt Mason
• James Meek
• Yonatan Mendel
• Ferdinand Mount
• Hugh Pennington
• Bernard Porter
• Jean Sprackland

Contents

• James Meek

  • Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill

• Letters
  Robin Kinross, Mary Fain, Charles Tripp, Sean Haycock, Robert Hewison, Salim Lone, Tariq Ali, Frank Conley, David Carpenter, Victor Glasstone, Ali Rizvi, John McGill, Peter Ghosh

• Bernard Porter

  • Britain’s Declining Empire: The Road to Decolonisation, 1918-68 by Ronald Hyam
  • The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire by Peter Clarke
  • Forgotten Wars: The End of Britain’s Asian Empire by Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper

• Peter Campbell
  At Tate Britain: Prunella Clough

• Adewale Maja-Pearce

  • You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir by Wole Soyinka

• Jean Sprackland
  Poem: ‘Three Lakes’

• Yonatan Mendel

  • Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation by Eyal Weizman

• Michael Dobson

  • The Shakespeare Riots: Revenge, Drama and Death in 19th-Century America by Nigel Cliff

• Jenny Diski

  • The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown
  • Diana by Sarah Bradford

• Ferdinand Mount

  • The Tichborne Claimant: A Victorian Sensation by Rohan McWilliam
  • A Romanov Fantasy: Life at the Court of Anna Anderson by Frances Welch
  • The Lost Prince: The Survival of Richard of York by David Baldwin

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Kicking Dick Cheney

• Norman Dombey

  • Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB by Alex Goldfarb, with Marina Litvinenko

• John Foot
  The Rendition of Abu Omar: the trial of the kidnappers

• Colin Dayan

  • Bad Men: Guantanamo Bay and the Secret Prisons by Clive Stafford Smith

• Philip Connors

  • Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart

• Hugh Pennington
  In the Chocolate: Cadbury's Big Mistake

• Wyatt Mason

  • The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History by Jonathan Franzen

• Gerard Fanning
  Two Poems

• Michel Lechat
  Diary: Graham Greene at the Leproserie