CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Rosemarie Bodenheimer
• Christopher Caldwell
• Peter Campbell
• Daniel Finn
• Leofranc Holford-Strevens
• Thomas Jones
• Clancy Martin
• Glen Newey
• Tim Parks
• Robin Robertson
• Tom Shippey
• Rory Stewart
• Sam Thompson
• Caroline Walker Bynum
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Rory Stewart
  The Irresistible Illusion: Why Are We in Afghanistan?

• Letters
  Frank Grace, Nora Crook, Chris Weeks, Mike Mosher, Robert Lumley, Moshé Machover, Nigel Gould-Davies, Peter Green, Harry Stopes

• Christopher Caldwell

  • Le Monde selon K. by Pierre Péan

• Robin Robertson
  Poem: ‘Pentheus and Dionysus’

• Tim Parks

  • Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone by Stanislao Pugliese

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies

  • North by Northwest directed by Alfred Hitchcock

• Glen Newey

  • Philosophy and Real Politics by Raymond Geuss

• Rosemarie Bodenheimer

  • George Gissing: A Life by Paul Delany

• Daniel Finn
  Short Cuts: Tax Havens

• Thomas Jones

  • The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

• Sam Thompson

  • Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower

• Leofranc Holford-Strevens

  • The Oxford Handbook of Case edited by Andrej Malchukov and Andrew Spencer

• Tom Shippey

  • Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain by Ronald Hutton

• Peter Campbell
  In an Empty Room: Paintings without People

• Caroline Walker Bynum

  • The Natural and the Supernatural in the Middle Ages by Robert Bartlett

• Clancy Martin
  Diary: My Life as a Drunk