Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Uri Avnery
• Peter Campbell
• Stefan Collini
• Jenny Diski
• Jeremy Harding
• Liam McIlvanney
• Donald MacKenzie
• Bill Manhire
• Yonatan Mendel
• Chris Mullin
• David Quint
• Jonathan Rée
• Iain Sinclair
• Daniel Soar
• Matthew Sweeney
• Bee Wilson
• Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Contents

• Letters
  Peter Ward, Peter Ghosh, Susan Pedersen, Bill Peppe, Dorothy McMillan, John Cashmore, Lionel Green, Ealasaid Munro, Leo Robson, Susan McDermott, Ian Gowans, Stan Smith, Tolu Ogunlesi, Ben Pritchett

• Iain Sinclair

  • Thames: Sacred River by Peter Ackroyd

• Liam McIlvanney

  • Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín

• Ruth Bernard Yeazell

  • Alice in Jamesland: The Story of Alice Howe Gibbens James by Susan Gunter

• Peter Campbell
  At Tate Modern: the Futurists

• Stefan Collini

  • The Movement Reconsidered: Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie and Their Contemporaries edited by Zachary Leader

• Donald MacKenzie

  • Fool’s Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe by Gillian Tett

• Daniel Soar
  Short Cuts: the Leaky State of Political Journalism

• Jonathan Rée

  • Leibniz: An Intellectual Biography by Maria Rosa Antognazza

• Bill Manhire
  Poem: ‘The Oral Tradition’

• Yonatan Mendel
  Fantasising Israel: Tel Aviv’s Centenary

• Uri Avnery
  One Foot on the Moon: Israel’s Racist Laws

• Jeremy Harding
  At the Allenby Bridge: Crossing the Jordan

• Bee Wilson

  • The Settler’s Cookbook: A Memoir of Love, Migration and Food by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

• Matthew Sweeney
  Poem: ‘Snow, Ice’

• Jenny Diski

  • Nina Simone: The Biography by David Brun-Lambert

• David Quint

  • The Return of Ulysses: A Cultural History of Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ by Edith Hall
  • Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ by Lillian Doherty
  • The Unknown Odysseus: Alternate Worlds in Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ by Thomas Van Nortwick

• Chris Mullin
  Diary: a report from Westminster