Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Neal Ascherson
• Colin Burrow
• Peter Campbell
• Anne Carson
• Jenny Diski
• Terry Eagleton
• Daniel Finn
• Jeremy Harding
• Thomas Jones
• Daniel Kane
• Frank Kermode
• Alexander Murray
• Tom Nairn
• Tim Parks
• Hugh Wilford
• James Wood

Contents

• Colin Burrow

  • Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

• Letters
  Abraham Foxman, Louis Harovitz, Lesley Beaven, Aldo Agosti, Alfio Bernabei, Gabriel Kahn, Robin Blake, Kate Soper, Mark Dow, Garth Clarke, Loren Biggs, Roger Mallion

• Jeremy Harding
  The Money that Prays: Sharia Finance

• Neal Ascherson

  • The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell, translated by Charlotte Mandell

• James Wood writes about the manipulations of Ian McEwan

• Daniel Kane
  Two Poems

• Frank Kermode

  • The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen. Vol. IX: Later Manuscripts edited by Janet Todd and Linda Bree
  • Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World by Claire Harman

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Thomas Jones retreats to his cave

• Terry Eagleton

  • What Price Liberty? How Freedom Was Won and Is Being Lost by Ben Wilson

• Jenny Diski
  Back to School: Bullet-Points for Teachers

• Hugh Wilford

  • The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and the Reconstruction of Postwar Europe by Greg Behrman
  • Winning the Peace: The Marshall Plan and America’s Coming of Age as a Superpower by Nicolaus Mills

• Tom Nairn

  • Union and Unionisms: Political Thought in Scotland, 1500-2000 by Colin Kidd

• Alexander Murray

  • The Crisis of the 12th Century: Power, Lordship and the Origins of European Government by Thomas Bisson

• Anne Carson
  Poem: ‘Wildly Constant’

• Tim Parks

  • Giuseppe Mazzini and the Globalisation of Democratic Nationalism 1830-1920 edited by C.A. Bayly and Eugenio Biagini

• Peter Campbell
  At the New Whitechapel: Isa Genzken

• Daniel Finn
  Diary: IRA Splinter Groups