Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Ervand Abrahamian
• Tariq Ali
• Simon Armitage
• Neal Ascherson
• Mary Beard
• Peter Campbell
• Eamon Duffy
• Susan Eilenberg
• Mark Ford
• Cathy Gere
• Tessa Hadley
• Ange Mlinko
• David Nirenberg
• Adam Phillips
• Adam Shatz
• Art Spiegelman
• Slavoj Žižek

Contents

• Slavoj Žižek
  Berlusconi in Tehran: The Rome-Tehran Axis

• Letters
  David Stannard, John Danziger, Victor Kande, Richard Hilken, Åsa Söderman, Chris Sinha, Nick Wray, Alistair Watson, Constance Blackwell, Frederick Sweet, John Gale, Richard Todd

• Mary Beard

  • Marcus Aurelius: Warrior, Philosopher, Emperor by Frank McLynn

• Adam Phillips

  • Isaiah Berlin, Enlightening: Letters 1946-60 edited by Henry Hardy and Jennifer Holmes

• Ange Mlinko
  Three Poems

• Neal Ascherson

  • Constructing the Monolith: The United States, Great Britain and International Communism 1945-50 by Marc Selverstone

• Simon Armitage
  Poem: ‘The Invasion’

• David Nirenberg

  • The Other Within The Marranos: Split Identity and Emerging Modernity by Yirmiyahu Yovel

• Eamon Duffy

  • The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England by Keith Thomas

• Cathy Gere

  • The Marvellous Hairy Girls: The Gonzales Sisters and Their Worlds by Merry Wiesner-Hanks

• Adam Shatz
  Short Cuts: Acoustic Weapons

• Art Spiegelman
  The St Louis Refugee Ship Blues

• Mark Ford

  • Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor by Brad Gooch

• Peter Campbell
  At the British Library: the Codex Sinaiticus

• Tessa Hadley

  • In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin

• Susan Eilenberg

  • Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present by Lisa Appignanesi

• Ervand Abrahamian
  ‘I am not a speck of dirt, I am a retired teacher’: The Protests in Iran

• Tariq Ali
  Diary: On the North-West Frontier