Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Peter Campbell
• Christopher Clark
• Gillian Darley
• John Foot
• Rosemary Hill
• J. Hoberman
• John Lanchester
• Hilary Mantel
• Glyn Maxwell
• Tom Paulin
• Mat Pires
• Lorna Scott Fox
• Graham Usher
• Marina Warner
• John Hartley Williams
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Hilary Mantel

  • Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary by Miri Rubin

• Letters
  Stephen Sedley, T.J. Clark, Tom Behan, James Heartfield, Richard Bucci, Robert Heath, Kerry Brown, Glen Newey, Clancy Sigal, John Merriweather, Alfio Bernabei, David Mason

• Michael Wood

  • Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy: The Making of GKC 1874-1908 by William Oddie
  • The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton

• John Hartley Williams
  Poem: ‘My Real Name is Stanley Kubrick’

• Peter Campbell
  At Tate Modern: Constructivism

• Graham Usher
  Taliban v. Taliban: India in Afghanistan

• Marina Warner

  • Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Edward FitzGerald, edited by Daniel Karlin

• Glyn Maxwell

  • The Immortals by Amit Chaudhuri

• J. Hoberman

  • Chagall: Love and Exile by Jackie Wullschlager

• John Lanchester
  Short Cuts: Google Street View

• Rosemary Hill

  • Love’s Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen & Charles Ritchie Letters and Diaries 1941-73 edited by Victoria Glendinning, with Judith Robertson
  • People, Places, Things: Essays by Elizabeth Bowen edited by Allan Hepburn

• Gillian Darley

  • Le Corbusier: A Life by Nicholas Fox Weber

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: ‘The International’ and ‘Duplicity’

• Lorna Scott Fox

  • Un lieu incertain by Fred Vargas
  • Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand by Fred Vargas, translated by Siân Reynolds
  • This Night’s Foul Work by Fred Vargas, translated by Siân Reynolds
  • The Chalk Circle Man by Fred Vargas, translated by Siân Reynolds

• Tom Paulin
  Poem: ‘From ‘Oedipus at Colonus’’

• Christopher Clark

  • High Society in the Third Reich by Fabrice d’Almeida

• John Foot

  • The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-19 by Mark Thompson

• Mat Pires
  Diary: La Princesse de Clèves at the Barricades