Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Peter Campbell
• Helen Deutsch
• Sheila Fitzpatrick
• Jeremy Harding
• Frank Kermode
• John Kinsella
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Gareth Peirce
• Adam Shatz
• Jonathan Steele
• Colm Tóibín
• Jenny Turner
• Michael Wood
• Tony Wood

Contents

• Colm Tóibín

  • Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell edited by Thomas Travisano and Saskia Hamilton

• Letters
  Kate Brayshay, Christopher Jenkins, Jonathan Bell, Noah Green, Miranda Weir, Catherine Buck

• Gareth Peirce
  ‘Make sure you say that you were treated properly’: Torture, Secrecy and the British State

• Tony Wood
  The Murder List: Kadyrov’s Death Squads

• Adam Shatz

  • Kill Khalid: The Failed Mossad Assassination of Khalid Mishal and the Rise of Hamas by Paul McGeough

• Jeremy Harding
  Islam and the Armies of Mammon: Islam and High Finance

• Andrew O’Hagan
  Short Cuts: Susan Boyle

• Jenny Turner

  • Make Do and Mend: Keeping Family and Home Afloat on War Rations
  • The Thrifty Cookbook: 476 Ways to Eat Well with Leftovers by Kate Colquhoun
  • The Thrift Book: Live Well and Spend Less by India Knight
  • Jamie’s Ministry of Food: Anyone Can Learn to Cook in 24 Hours by Jamie Oliver
  • Eating for Victory: Healthy Home Front Cooking on War Rations

• Peter Campbell
  At the National Portrait Gallery: Gerhard Richter

• Sheila Fitzpatrick

  • The People’s Artist: Prokofiev’s Soviet Years by Simon Morrison

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: ‘Let the Right One In’

  • Let the Right One In directed by Tomas Alfredson

• Frank Kermode

  • Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro

• Helen Deutsch

  • Hester: The Remarkable Life of Dr Johnson’s ‘Dear Mistress’ by Ian McIntyre

• John Kinsella
  Poem: ‘Yellow’

• Jonathan Steele
  Diary: in Transdniestria