Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Burnside
• Peter Campbell
• Jenny Diski
• Michael Dobson
• Deborah Friedell
• Jeremy Harding
• Eric Hobsbawm
• Nick Holdstock
• R.W. Johnson
• Joshua Kurlantzick
• Jamie McKendrick
• Hilary Mantel
• James Meek
• Michael Newton
• John Perry
• Michael Robbins
• Frederick Seidel
• Colm Tóibín
• Geoffrey Wheatcroft
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Hilary Mantel

  • Danton: The Gentle Giant of Terror by David Lawday

• Letters
  Tanveer Ansari, Forrest Hylton, R.W. Johnson, David Campbell, Rob Ainsley, Nicholas Morris, Simon Darragh

• Michael Wood

  • Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov, translated by Marian Schwartz

• Joshua Kurlantzick

  • Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia Special Reports 1-15
  • The Lost Executioner: The Story of Comrade Duch and the Khmer Rouge by Nic Dunlop

• Frederick Seidel
  Poem: ‘Istanbul’

• Eric Hobsbawm

  • The Morbid Age: Britain between the Wars by Richard Overy

• Colm Tóibín

  • The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1929-40 edited by Martha Dow Fehsenfeld and Lois More Overbeck

• John Burnside
  Two Poems

• Jenny Diski

  • An Intellectual History of Cannibalism by Catalin Avramescu, translated by Alistair Ian Blyth

• Michael Dobson
  Short Cuts: Deutschland ist Hamlet

• James Meek

  • Occupied City by David Peace

• Jamie McKendrick
  Poem: ‘Teazles’

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: ‘The Taking of Pelham 123’

• Deborah Friedell

  • The Other Elizabeth Taylor by Nicola Beauman

• Peter Campbell
  At 1 Chiltern Street: Suits

• Nick Holdstock
  In Ürümqi: the Uighur Riots

• Geoffrey Wheatcroft

  • ‘A Senseless, Squalid War’: Voices from Palestine 1945-48 by Norman Rose
  • Major Farran’s Hat: Murder, Scandal and Britain’s War against Jewish Terrorism 1945-48 by David Cesarani

• Jeremy Harding
  Right, Left and Centre: Keith Kyle

• John Perry
  In Tegucigalpa: the Honduran Coup

• Michael Newton

  • Frankly, My Dear: ‘Gone with the Wind’ Revisited by Molly Haskell

• Michael Robbins

  • Poems 1959-2009 by Frederick Seidel

• R.W. Johnson
  Diary: ‘Author Loses Leg in Lagoon’