Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Tariq Ali
• Perry Anderson
• Neal Ascherson
• Joanna Biggs
• Colin Burrow
• Peter Campbell
• Jenny Diski
• Hal Foster
• Richard Gott
• Jose Harris
• David Harsent
• Michael Hofmann
• Thomas Jones
• Ruth Padel
• Tom Shippey
• Miles Taylor
• Katie Trumpener
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Neal Ascherson

  • The Bard: Robert Burns, a Biography by Robert Crawford

• Letters
  Thomas Laqueur, Glen Newey, Jeremy Bernstein, Edward Field, Lisa Appignanesi, Hugh Wright, Richard Bate, John Jones, Victoria Owens

• Hal Foster

  • Correspondence: The Foundation of the Situationist International (June 1957-60) by Guy Debord, translated by Stuart Kendall and John McHale

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: ‘The Class’

  • The Class directed by Laurent Cantet

• Richard Gott

  • Cornelius Cardew: A Life Unfinished by John Tilbury

• Perry Anderson
  An Invertebrate Left

• Peter Campbell
  At Tate Britain: Van Dyck’s Portraits

• Colin Burrow

  • Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, translated by J.G. Nichols

• Ruth Padel
  Two Poems

• Michael Hofmann

  • The Whole Difference: Selected Writings of Hugo von Hofmannsthal edited by J.D. McClatchy

• Katie Trumpener

  • Nazis and the Cinema by Susan Tegel
  • Cinema and the Swastika: The International Expansion of Third Reich Cinema edited by Roel Vande Winkel and David Welch
  • Prague in Danger: The Years of German Occupation 1939-45 by Peter Demetz

• Jenny Diski
  Short Cuts: Gail and Jade and Me

• Tom Shippey

  • The Battle of Hastings: The Fall of Anglo-Saxon England by Harriet Harvey Wood

• Miles Taylor

  • The Letters of Richard Cobden. Vol. I: 1815-47 edited by Anthony Howe

• Jose Harris

  • The Invention of Altruism: Making Moral Meanings in Victorian Britain by Thomas Dixon

• Joanna Biggs

  • Artificial Snow by Florian Zeller, translated by Sue Rose
  • Elle t’attend by Florian Zeller

• David Harsent
  Four Poems

• Thomas Jones

  • Land of Marvels by Barry Unsworth

• Tariq Ali
  Diary: The Future of Cricket