Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Tariq Ali
• Andrew Bacevich
• Tom Bingham
• Peter Campbell
• Piero Gleijeses
• Jeremy Harding
• Joshua Kurlantzick
• Jamie McKendrick
• Ross McKibbin
• John Mearsheimer
• Bernard Porter
• Graham Robb
• Steven Shapin
• David Simpson
• David Thomson
• Jenny Turner

Contents

• Bernard Porter

  • It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistleblower by Michela Wrong

• Letters
  Andy Clark, Tony Wood, Kay Nicholson, Ana de Resende Waissbein, Mat Snow, Andrew Wilton, David Craig, Brian Lee, Tim Leggatt, Timothy Barnard, Don Ridgway

• Ross McKibbin
  Will We Care When Labour Loses?: Gordon Brown’s Failures

• Joshua Kurlantzick

  • Factory Girls: Voices from the Heart of Modern China by Leslie Chang
  • Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State by Yasheng Huang

• David Simpson

  • Ernst Cassirer: The Last Philosopher of Culture by Edward Skidelsky
  • The Symbolic Construction of Reality: The Legacy of Ernst Cassirer edited by Jeffrey Andrew Barash

• Graham Robb

  • Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in 19th-Century Paris by Miranda Gill

• Andrew Bacevich

  • The Gamble: General Petraeus and the Untold Story of the American Surge in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks

• John Mearsheimer
  The Lobby Falters: Charles Freeman speaks out

• Piero Gleijeses

  • Guantanamo: A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution by Jana Lipman

• Jeremy Harding
  Short Cuts: The French Foreign Legion

• Tom Bingham
  At the White House’s Whim: the Power of Pardon

• Tariq Ali
  After Lahore: It’s not just cricket

• Steven Shapin

  • Mortal Coil: A Short History of Living Longer by David Boyd Haycock

• Jamie McKendrick

  • Paradiso by Dante, translated by Robin Kirkpatrick
  • Paradiso by Dante, translated by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander

• Peter Campbell
  At the National Gallery: Picasso’s Borrowings

• Jenny Turner

  • Twilight directed by Catherine Hardwick
  • Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

• David Thomson
  Diary: Alcatraz