Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Peter Campbell
• Patrick Collinson
• James Davidson
• Mark Ford
• John Glenday
• Greg Grandin
• Jeremy Harding
• R.W. Johnson
• Thomas Jones
• J.L. Nelson
• Ruth Padel
• Tom Paulin
• Robin Robertson
• David Runciman
• David Simpson
• T.C. Smout
• Alexander Zevin

Contents

• James Davidson

  • Rudolf Nureyev: The Life by Julie Kavanagh

• Letters
  Lester Coleman, Graeme Wood, Jerry Fodor, Benjamin Friedman, Michael Robertson, George Donaldson, Malcolm Reid, Joshua Cohen, Barry Cant, Marjorie Farquharson, J.P. Roos

• Robin Robertson
  Poem: ‘By Clachan Bridge’

• Greg Grandin

  • Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power by Robert Dallek
  • Henry Kissinger and the American Century by Jeremi Suri

• David Runciman

  • Non-Governmental Politics edited by Michel Feher

• Tom Paulin

  • Letters of Ted Hughes edited by Christopher Reid

• Mark Ford
  Elizabeth Bishop’s Aviary: Elizabeth Bishop’s Aviary

• Jeremy Harding
  Short Cuts: Embedded in Iraq

• Peter Campbell

  • Mirror of the World: A New History of Art by Julian Bell

• David Simpson

  • No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture and Liberal Democracy by Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites

• R.W. Johnson

  • Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World 1940-41 by Ian Kershaw

• John Glenday
  Two Poems

• J.L. Nelson

  • God’s War: A New History of the Crusades by Christopher Tyerman

• Peter Campbell
  At Tate Modern: Louise Bourgeois

• Patrick Collinson

  • Thomas Cromwell: The Rise and Fall of Henry VIII’s Most Notorious Minister by Robert Hutchinson

• T.C. Smout

  • Woodlands by Oliver Rackham
  • Beechcombings: The Narratives of Trees by Richard Mabey
  • Wildwood: A Journey through Trees by Roger Deakin
  • The Wild Trees: What if the Last Wilderness Is above Our Heads? by Richard Preston

• Thomas Jones

  • Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson

• Alexander Zevin
  Paris, 18 October: The New ’68ers

• Ruth Padel
  Diary