Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Elif Batuman
• David Bromwich
• Stephen Burt
• Peter Campbell
• Jenny Diski
• Wendy Doniger
• Thomas Jones
• John Kinsella
• John Lanchester
• Leconte de L’Isle
• Gareth Peirce
• Lewis Siegelbaum
• Henry Siegman
• Nicholas Spice
• Jeremy Waldron

Contents

• Gareth Peirce
  Was it like this for the Irish?: The War on British Muslims

• Letters
  Roger James, Stan Smith, Felix Holmgren, Paul Anderson, Karl Sabbagh, Gordon Kerry, Yael Lotan, Cal Winslow, Judith Chernaik

• Jeremy Waldron

  • Worst-Case Scenarios by Cass Sunstein

• Stephen Burt
  Poem: ‘Peonies’

• Jenny Diski

  • Child of All Nations by Irmgard Keun, translated by Michael Hofmann

• Lewis Siegelbaum

  • The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia by Orlando Figes

• Henry Siegman

  • The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-77 by Gershom Gorenberg
  • Lords of the Land: The War over Israel’s Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007 by Idith Zertal and Akiva Eldar

• Peter Campbell
  At the National Gallery: Pompeo Batoni

• Thomas Jones

  • Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton – An Autobiography by J.G. Ballard

• John Lanchester
  Short Cuts: Ken or Boris?

• Nicholas Spice

  • Something to Tell You by Hanif Kureishi

• Elif Batuman

  • Life, in Pictures: Autobiographical Stories by Will Eisner
  • Epileptic by David B.
  • Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine
  • Misery Loves Comedy by Ivan Brunetti

• Wendy Doniger

  • Indo-European Poetry and Myth by M.L. West

• Leconte de L’Isle translated by John Kinsella
  Poem: ‘Le Rêve du jaguar’

• Peter Campbell

  • Architect and Engineer by Andrew Saint

• David Bromwich
  Diary: President-Speak