CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• John Ashbery
• Uri Avnery
• Peter Campbell
• Stefan Collini
• Jenny Diski
• Daniel Finn
• Eric Foner
• Barbara Graziosi
• Jeremy Harding
• R.F. Langley
• James Meek
• Jacqueline Rose
• Michael Sheringham
• Tom Shippey
• Roxanne Varzi
• Megan Vaughan

Contents

• Letters
  Tony Judge, Paul Francis, Eliot Weinberger, Neville Twitchell, Peter Green, Rebecca French, Sean Gallagher, Charles Alverson

• James Meek
  When the Floods Came: England’s Water

• R.F. Langley
  Poem: ‘Videlicet’

• Daniel Finn
  ‘Thanks a million, big fella’: After Ahern

• Stefan Collini

  • Raymond Williams: A Warrior’s Tale by Dai Smith

• John Ashbery
  Two Poems

• Tom Shippey

  • The History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth, edited by Michael Reeve, translated by Neil Wright
  • The History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth

• Barbara Graziosi

  • Bacchylides: Politics, Performance, Poetic Tradition by David Fearn

• Jeremy Harding
  Short Cuts: trying to listen to the World Service

• Jacqueline Rose

  • Homecoming by Bernhard Schlink, translated by Michael Henry Heim

• Peter Campbell
  In the Park: Frank Gehry’s Pavilion

• Roxanne Varzi

  • Soft Weapons: Autobiography in Transit by Gillian Whitlock

• Michael Sheringham

  • The Discovery of France by Graham Robb

• Megan Vaughan

  • Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa by Richard Keller

• Uri Avnery
  The Ceasefire: Calm in Gaza

• Eric Foner

  • The Slave Ship: A Human History by Marcus Rediker

• Jenny Diski
  Diary: trying to stay awake