Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Tariq Ali
• John Banville
• Julian Barnes
• Peter Campbell
• Amit Chaudhuri
• Susan Eilenberg
• Anne Enright
• Jorie Graham
• Nicholas Guyatt
• Wayne Koestenbaum
• Ross McKibbin
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Adam Phillips
• James Shapiro
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Letters
  Neil Forster, Rory MacQueen, Barbara Graziosi, Flora Jeunet, Gordon Peilow, Martin Sanderson

• Michael Wood

  • Diary of a Bad Year by J.M. Coetzee
  • Inner Workings: Essays 2000-2005 by J.M. Coetzee

• Julian Barnes

  • Novels in Three Lines by Félix Fénéon, translated by Luc Sante

• Jorie Graham
  Poem: ‘Nearing Dawn’

• Tariq Ali
  Pakistan at Sixty: The Trouble with Pakistan

• Ross McKibbin
  Pure New Labour: Three Groans for Gordon

• Nicholas Guyatt

  • Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World by David Brion Davis
  • The Trader, the Owner, the Slave by James Walvin
  • The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000 by Colin Kidd
  • The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders’ Worldview by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene Genovese

• Andrew O’Hagan
  Short Cuts: Telecom Rehab

• John Banville

  • Exit Ghost by Philip Roth

• Amit Chaudhuri

  • The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

• Susan Eilenberg

  • Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones

• James Shapiro

  • Shakespeare’s Wife by Germaine Greer

• Wayne Koestenbaum

  • Tennessee Williams: Notebooks edited by Margaret Bradham Thornton

• Peter Campbell
  At Victoria Miro: Sarah Sze’s Art of Arrangement

• Adam Phillips
  After Strachey: Translating Freud

• Anne Enright
  Diary: Disliking the McCanns