Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Svetlana Alpers
• Perry Anderson
• Shadi Bartsch
• Peter Campbell
• Anne Carson
• William Feaver
• Steve Fraser
• Deborah Friedell
• Amira Hass
• Eric Hobsbawm
• David Kaiser
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Gilberto Perez
• Gabriel Piterberg
• Colin Robinson
• Frederick Seidel
• Daniel Soar
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Perry Anderson

  • La Casta: Cosi i Politici Italiani sono Diventati Intoccabili by Sergio Rizzo and Gian Antonio Stella
  • La Deriva: Perche l’Italia Rischia il Naufragio by Sergio Rizzo and Gian Antonio Stella

• Letters
  Alex Bailin, Phil Poole, Lionel Goldfarb, A.N. Wilson, Allan Janik, Rupert Read, Thomas Venning, Justin Horton, Lara Pawson, Kate Kennedy, Malcolm Ross

• Michael Wood

  • Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Chris Andrews
  • 2666 by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Natasha Wimmer

• Anne Carson
  Poem: ‘Burners Go Raw’

• Daniel Soar

  • ‘The Taker’ and Other Stories by Rubem Fonseca, translated by Clifford Landers

• Steve Fraser

  • Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years Vol I: Made for America, 1890-1901 edited by Candace Falk
  • Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years Vol. II: Making Speech Free, 1902-1909 edited by Candace Falk

• Shadi Bartsch

  • ‘Octavia’, Attributed to Seneca edited by A.J. Boyle

• Andrew O’Hagan
  Short Cuts: the Oscars

• Deborah Friedell

  • Wedlock by Wendy Moore

• Peter Campbell
  In the Turner Gallery: Coleridge’s Note-Taking

• Eric Hobsbawm

  • Bomb, Book and Compass: Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China by Simon Winchester

• David Kaiser

  • The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius by Graham Farmelo

• William Feaver

  • Francis Bacon: Incunabula edited by Martin Harrison and Rebecca Daniels

• Svetlana Alpers

  • Vermeer’s Hat: The 17th Century and the Dawn of the Global World by Timothy Brook

• Gilberto Perez

  • Tarkovsky by Nathan Dunne
  • Andrei Tarkovsky: Elements of Cinema by Robert Bird

• Frederick Seidel
  Poem: ‘Lisbon’

• Gabriel Piterberg

  • ‘Midnight Convoy’ and Other Stories by S. Yizhar, translated by Misha Louvish et al
  • Khirbet Khizeh by S. Yizhar, translated by Nicholas de Lange and Yaacob Dweck
  • Preliminaries by S. Yizhar, translated by Nicholas de Lange

• Amira Hass
  Return to Gaza: After Gaza

• Colin Robinson
  Diary: Publishing’s Demise