Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Tariq Ali
• Dinah Birch
• Peter Campbell
• Helen Deutsch
• Mark Ford
• Deborah Friedell
• Jeremy Harding
• Thomas Jones
• Frank Kermode
• August Kleinzahler
• Benjamin Kunkel
• John Lanchester
• Diarmaid MacCulloch
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Charles Tripp
• Sean Wilsey

Contents

• Letters
  Allen Singer, Jason Farago, Colin Bloch, James Mosley, Peter Bourne, Ophelia Tshabalala, John Morris, Henry Fitch, Tim Gutteridge, Mike Harding

• Jeremy Harding
  Saved and Depoliticised at One Stroke: the Dangers of Intervention

• John Lanchester

  • Speaking for Myself: The Autobiography by Cherie Blair
  • Prezza, My Story: Pulling No Punches by John Prescott, with Hunter Davies
  • A Question of Honour: Inside New Labour and the True Story of the Cash for Peerages Scandal by Michael Levy

• Andrew O’Hagan
  At the Movies: M. Night Shyamalan

  • The Happening directed by M. Night Shyamalan

• Tariq Ali

  • Descent into Chaos: How the War against Islamic Extremism Is Being Lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid
  • Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Army, and the Wars within by Shuja Nawaz

• Mark Ford

  • The Nancy Book by Joe Brainard

• Benjamin Kunkel

  • Netherland by Joseph O’Neill

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Spies Wanted

• Deborah Friedell

  • Lush Life by Richard Price

• Peter Campbell
  From the National Gallery to the Royal Academy: the Divisionists and Vilhelm Hammershoi

• Frank Kermode

  • Alfred and Emily by Doris Lessing

• Charles Tripp

  • Muqtada Al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq by Patrick Cockburn

• Diarmaid MacCulloch

  • The Last Office: 1539 and the Dissolution of a Monastery by Geoffrey Moorhouse

• Helen Deutsch

  • Queen of the Wits: A Life of Laetitia Pilkington by Norma Clarke

• August Kleinzahler
  Poem: ‘Shoot the Freak’

• Dinah Birch

  • Other People’s Daughters: The Life and Times of the Governess by Ruth Brandon

• Sean Wilsey
  Diary: Going Slow