CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Ben Anderson
• Neal Ascherson
• Julian Bell
• Alan Bennett
• Craig Clunas
• Susan Eilenberg
• Jorie Graham
• Dave Haslam
• Peter Howarth
• John Lanchester
• David Runciman
• Adam Shatz
• Tom Shippey
• Thomas Sugrue
• Inigo Thomas
• Colm Tóibín
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Alan Bennett
  What I Didn’t Do in 2007

• Letters
  Max Zweig, Joel Berglund, David Graeber, Sam Abrams, Simon Blackburn, Jerry Coyne, Philip Kitcher, Tim Lewens and Steven Rose, Jerry Fodor, Sheldon Litt, Richard McClean, James Valentine, Nazir Dhoki

• John Lanchester
  Cityphilia: the credit crunch

• Michael Wood

  • The Maias: Episodes from Romantic Life by José Maria Eça de Queirós, translated by Margaret Jull Costa

• Colm Tóibín

  • The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1855-72: Volume I edited by Pierre Walker and Greg Zacharias
  • The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1855-72: Volume II edited by Pierre Walker and Greg Zacharias

• Julian Bell

  • A Life of Picasso, Vol. III: The Triumphant Years 1917-32 by John Richardson

• Tom Shippey

  • From Asgard to Valhalla: The Remarkable History of the Norse Myths by Heather O’Donoghue

• Neal Ascherson

  • The Price of Scotland: Darien, Union and the Wealth of Nations by Douglas Watt

• Adam Shatz
  Short Cuts: Condoleezza Rice

• David Runciman
  Brown and Friends: Brown and Friends

• Inigo Thomas
  Success and James Maxton: Success and James Maxton

• Thomas Sugrue

  • The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater

• Jorie Graham
  Poem: ‘Day Off’

• Susan Eilenberg

  • The Maytrees by Annie Dillard

• Peter Howarth

  • Letter to Patience by John Haynes

• Dave Haslam

  • Juvenes: The Joy Division Photographs of Kevin Cummins
  • Joy Division: Piece by Piece by Paul Morley
  • Control directed by Anton Corbijn

• Craig Clunas
  At the British Museum: the Terracotta Army

• Ben Anderson
  Diary: in Afghanistan