CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Alan Bennett
• Malcolm Bull
• Peter Campbell
• Siddhartha Deb
• David Edgar
• Mark Ford
• McGuire Gibson
• Lavinia Greenlaw
• John Lanchester
• Hilary Mantel
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Sara Roy
• Adam Shatz
• Hugo Williams
• Bee Wilson
• James Wolcott
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Alan Bennett
  Bennett's Dissection: Alan Bennett eats his lunch

• Letters
  Josh Foster, Timothy Scarnecchia, Jocelyn Alexander and 33 others, Gavin Kitching, Mahmood Mamdani, Gaiutra Bahadur, Hugh Pennington, Damian Smyth, Edward Pearce, Noah McCormack, Brian Lee

• James Wolcott

  • The Widows of Eastwick by John Updike

• Michael Wood

  • Justine by Lawrence Durrell
  • Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell
  • Mountolive by Lawrence Durrell
  • Clea by Lawrence Durrell

• Hilary Mantel
  Someone to Disturb: A Memoir

• John Lanchester
  Is it Art?: video games

• Bee Wilson

  • Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, translated by Geoffrey Brock

• Adam Shatz
  Short Cuts: The Greek Uprising

• Andrew O’Hagan

  • Arthur Miller, 1915-62 by Christopher Bigsby

• Sara Roy
  If Gaza falls . . .

• David Edgar

  • A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and Their Remarkable Families by Michael Holroyd

• Hugo Williams
  Poem: ‘A Pillow Book’

• Mark Ford

  • Edward Thomas: The Annotated Collected Poems edited by Edna Longley

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies

  • Milk directed by Gus Van Sant

• Malcolm Bull

  • Bíos: Biopolitics and Philosophy by Roberto Esposito, translated by Timothy Campbell

• Peter Campbell
  At Dulwich Picture Gallery: Saul Steinberg’s Playful Modernism

• Siddhartha Deb

  • The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan by Yasmin Khan
  • The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories by Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar

• Lavinia Greenlaw
  Three Poems

• McGuire Gibson
  Diary: the Theft of Iraq’s Antiquities