Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Uri Avnery
• Colin Burrow
• Peter Campbell
• Patrick Cockburn
• Tim Crane
• James Davidson
• Norman Dombey
• Terry Eagleton
• Keith Gessen
• Thomas Jones
• John Lanchester
• Bill Manhire
• Adam Phillips
• Eyal Press
• Charles Simic
• Iain Sinclair
• Jean Sprackland
• Matthew Sweeney
• Sam Thompson
• Bee Wilson

Contents

• James Davidson

  • The Atlantis Story: A Short History of Plato’s Myth by Pierre Vidal-Naquet, translated by Janet Lloyd

• Letters
  Verena Mayer and Roland Koberg, Pete Ayrton, Sven Anderson, Richard Davenport-Hines, Slavoj Žižek, Inigo Thomas, Laura Mansnerus, Richard Pevear, Garth Clarke, W.S. Milne, DeAnn DeLuna

• Patrick Cockburn
  Iran v. America: A New Deal for Iraq

• Norman Dombey
  At Al Kibar: the Syrian Sting

• Terry Eagleton

  • Theodor Adorno: One Last Genius by Detlev Claussen

• Uri Avnery
  Olmert and Friends: Sleaze in Israeli Politics

• Keith Gessen

  • Alfred Kazin: A Biography by Richard Cook

• Peter Campbell
  At the Door: Open Sesame!

• Eyal Press

  • The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming America from the Right by Paul Krugman

• Bill Manhire
  Three Poems

• Iain Sinclair
  The Olympics Scam: The Razing of East London

• Jean Sprackland
  Poem: ‘The Source’

• Charles Simic
  Poem: ‘In the Afternoon’

• John Lanchester
  Short Cuts: Who’s Afraid of the Library of America?

• Colin Burrow

  • Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England: John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Marchamont Nedham by Blair Worden

• Sam Thompson

  • The Butt by Will Self

• Adam Phillips

  • Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women’s Love and Desire by Lisa Diamond

• Bee Wilson

  • The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or the Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale

• Tim Crane

  • In the Space of Reasons: Selected Essays of Wilfrid Sellars edited by Kevin Scharp and Robert Brandom
  • Wilfrid Sellars: Fusing the Images by Jay Rosenberg

• Matthew Sweeney
  Two Poems

• Thomas Jones
  Diary: The Last Days of eBay