Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Simon Adams
• Stephen Burt
• Peter Campbell
• Patrick Cockburn
• Charles Glass
• Thomas Jones
• Mark Kishlansky
• August Kleinzahler
• Hilary Mantel
• David Morley
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Jonathan Raban
• Nikil Saval
• Jenny Turner
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Andrew O’Hagan
  A Car of One’s Own: Chariots of Desire

• Letters
  Oliver Rivers, Graham Brown, Francis Wilkinson, Karla Mallette, Izzud-Din Pal, Matthias Tomczak, Bob Hall, Matt Fretton, James Watt, Pat Harvey

• David Morley
  Poem: ‘From ‘Fresh Water’’

• Peter Campbell
  At the National Portrait Gallery: 273 Fabiolas

• Jonathan Raban
  Trouble at the Fees Office: Alice in Expenses Land

• August Kleinzahler
  Poem: ‘How Many Times’

• Patrick Cockburn
  Return to Afghanistan: a report from Kabul

• Charles Glass

  • 1948: A Soldier’s Tale, the Bloody Road to Jerusalem by Uri Avnery, translated by Christopher Costello
  • Israel’s Vicious Circle by Uri Avnery, edited by Sara Powell

• Michael Wood

  • An Oresteia translated by Anne Carson

• Stephen Burt

  • Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney by Dennis O’Driscoll
  • The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney edited by Bernard O’Donoghue

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Politicians’ Spouses

• Jenny Turner

  • Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer

• Nikil Saval

  • Lowboy by John Wray

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: ‘Synecdoche, New York’

  • Synecdoche, New York directed by Charlie Kaufman

• Mark Kishlansky

  • The English Civil Wars 1640-60 by Blair Worden

• Simon Adams

  • Burghley: William Cecil at the Court of Elizabeth I by Stephen Alford

• Hilary Mantel
  Diary: On Being a Social Worker