Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Ervand Abrahamian
• David A. Bell
• Matthew Bevis
• Roger Bland
• Stephen Burt
• Peter Campbell
• Rachel Cohen
• Jenny Diski
• Tony Harrison
• Peter Howarth
• Colin Kidd
• Pankaj Mishra
• Susan Pedersen
• Adam Shatz
• Elaine Showalter
• Daniel Soar
• Sanjay Subrahmanyam
• Colm Tóibín
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Colm Tóibín

  • In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story by Andrea Weiss

• Letters
  Adrian Fosgood, Brian Cartwright, Alex Fox, Eric Cohen, David McDowall, J.A. Bosworth, Bill Cooke, Christopher Frayling

• Jenny Diski

  • All in the Mind by Alastair Campbell

• Pankaj Mishra

  • The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria
  • The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order by Parag Khanna

• Colin Kidd

  • The Discovery of Islands: Essays in British History by J.G.A. Pocock
  • Barbarism and Religion. Vol. III: The First Decline and Fall by J.G.A. Pocock
  • Barbarism and Religion. Vol. IV: Barbarians, Savages and Empires by J.G.A. Pocock

• David A. Bell

  • Napoleon’s Cursed War: Popular Resistance in the Spanish Peninsular War by Ronald Fraser

• Susan Pedersen

  • ‘We Danced All Night’: A Social History of Britain between the Wars by Martin Pugh

• Tony Harrison
  Poem: ‘Wasted Ink’

• Adam Shatz

  • Memories of Eden: A Journey through Jewish Baghdad by Violette Shamash, edited by Mira Rocca and Tona Rocca
  • Baghdad, Yesterday: The Making of an Arab Jew by Sasson Somekh

• Daniel Soar
  Short Cuts: Underground Bunkers

• Matthew Bevis

  • New Writings of William Hazlitt: Volume I edited by Duncan Wu
  • New Writings of William Hazlitt: Volume II edited by Duncan Wu
  • William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man by Duncan Wu

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: Fernando Meirelles

  • Blindness directed by Fernando Meirelles

• Peter Howarth

  • The Collected Prose of Robert Frost edited by Mark Richardson
  • The Notebooks of Robert Frost edited by Robert Faggen

• Stephen Burt

  • Watching the Spring Festival by Frank Bidart

• Elaine Showalter

  • American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld

• Peter Campbell
  At the National Gallery: Renaissance Faces

• Rachel Cohen

  • The Believers by Zoë Heller

• Ervand Abrahamian

  • Ahmadinejad: The Secret History of Iran’s Radical Leader by Kasra Naji
  • The Road to Democracy in Iran by Akbar Ganji

• Roger Bland

  • Who Owns Antiquity? Museums and the Battle over Our Ancient Heritage by James Cuno

• Sanjay Subrahmanyam
  Diary: Another Booker Flop