Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Ashbery
• Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen
• Peter Campbell
• Terry Castle
• Amit Chaudhuri
• John Connelly
• Daniel Finn
• Mark Ford
• Barbara Graziosi
• Geoffrey Hawthorn
• Jim Holt
• Ian Jack
• Walter Benn Michaels
• Glen Newey
• Bernard Porter
• Robin Robertson
• Daniel Soar
• Sanjay Subrahmanyam
• Marina Warner

Contents

• Amit Chaudhuri

  • The Wasted Vigil by Nadeem Aslam

• Letters
  Lara Pawson, Anonymous, Chris King, Alan Koenig, James Carmichael, Oliver Harris, Tim Johnson, Roberto Zapperi, John Burnside, Desmond Logan, Eric Hunter, Mary Anne Macdonald, Raymond Aronson, Les Filotas, Evert Vedung

• Ian Jack

  • When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies by Andy Beckett

• Walter Benn Michaels

  • Who Cares about the White Working Class? edited by Kjartan Páll Sveinsson

• Daniel Finn
  Community Relations: In Belfast

• Bernard Porter

  • Warlord: A Life of Churchill at War, 1874-1945 by Carlo D’Este

• Barbara Graziosi

  • Travelling Heroes: Greeks and Their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer by Robin Lane Fox

• Sanjay Subrahmanyam

  • Gabriel García Márquez: A Life by Gerald Martin

• Robin Robertson
  Three Poems

• Peter Campbell
  At the National Gallery: French Landscape Painting

• Marina Warner

  • Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugrešić, translated by Ellen Elias Bursác, Celia Hawkesworth and Mark Thompson

• Daniel Soar
  Short Cuts: The Open Left Project

• Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen

  • Hysterical Men: The Hidden History of Male Nervous Illness by Mark Micale

• John Ashbery
  Three Poems

• Jim Holt

  • Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity by Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor

• Geoffrey Hawthorn

  • Max Weber: A Biography by Joachim Radkau, translated by Patrick Camiller

• Mark Ford
  Poem: ‘White Nights’

• John Connelly

  • Hitler’s Beneficiaries: How the Nazis Bought the German People by Götz Aly, translated by Jefferson Chase

• Glen Newey

  • A View from the Foothills: The Diaries of Chris Mullin by Chris Mullin

• Terry Castle
  Diary: Moving House