Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Joanna Biggs
• Rosemarie Bodenheimer
• Peter Campbell
• Anne Carson
• Terry Castle
• Linda Colley
• Jenny Diski
• Deborah Friedell
• Rosemary Hill
• R.W. Johnson
• Rashid Khalidi
• John Lanchester
• Karl Schlögel
• Henry Siegman
• Adam Thirlwell
• Inigo Thomas
• Michael Wood
• Patrick Wright

Contents

• Linda Colley

  • A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton by Carl Bernstein
  • Hillary Clinton: Her Way: The Biography by Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta

• Letters
  Rod Edmond, Gabriel Egan, Chimen Abramsky, Norman Zide, Shashi Tharoor, Christine Lindey, Peter Burgess, Arthur Searle, David Whalin, Archie Burnett

• Henry Siegman
  The Great Middle East Peace Process Scam: There Is No Peace Process

• John Lanchester

  • The Blair Years: Extracts from the Alastair Campbell Diaries edited by Alastair Campbell and Richard Stott

• Rosemary Hill

  • The Mrs Woolf and the Servants: The Hidden Heart of Domestic Service by Alison Light

• Terry Castle
  Travels with My Mom: in Santa Fe

• Anne Carson
  Poem: ‘Triple Sonnet of the Plush Pony’

• Rosemarie Bodenheimer

  • The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell edited by Joanne Shattock et al

• Patrick Wright

  • Seize the Hour: When Nixon Met Mao by Margaret MacMillan

• Deborah Friedell
  Short Cuts: First Impressions

• R.W. Johnson

  • The State v. Nelson Mandela: The Trial That Changed South Africa by Joel Joffe

• Joanna Biggs

  • Joshua Spassky by Gwendoline Riley

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: The Simpsons

  • The Simpsons Movie directed by David Silverman

• Adam Thirlwell

  • The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon

• Peter Campbell
  At the Wellcome: The Heart

• Karl Schlögel

  • Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary under Stalin by Jochen Hellbeck

• Rashid Khalidi
  Shared Irresponsibility: Fatah and Hamas

• Jenny Diski

  • Princess Margaret: A Life Unravelled by Tim Heald

• Inigo Thomas
  Diary: New York Megacity