Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Stephen Burt
• Peter Campbell
• Terry Eagleton
• Boris Fishman
• Richard Fortey
• Jeremy Harding
• August Kleinzahler
• Michael Kulikowski
• Ross McKibbin
• Hilary Mantel
• Roy Mayall
• Ferdinand Mount
• Gareth Peirce
• John Pemble
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Gareth Peirce
  The Framing of al-Megrahi: The Death of Justice

• Letters
  George Haycock, Nick Holdstock, Stephen Sedley, Tim Gallwey, Colin Lovelace, Simon Darragh, Geoffrey Goodman, Kjartan Páll Sveinsson

• Ross McKibbin
  Will we notice when the Tories have won?: Election Blues

• Jeremy Harding

  • Letters from Barcelona: An American Woman in Revolution and Civil War edited by Gerd-Rainer Horn
  • War Is Beautiful: An American Ambulance Driver in the Spanish Civil War by James Neugass
  • We Saw Spain Die: Foreign Correspondents in the Spanish Civil War by Paul Preston

• August Kleinzahler
  Poem: ‘When the Barocco’

• Ferdinand Mount

  • The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome by Roland Chambers

• Hilary Mantel

  • Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor by Eamon Duffy

• Terry Eagleton

  • On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition and Fiction by Brian Boyd

• John Pemble

  • Who Were the Rich? A Biographical Directory of British Wealth-Holders. Vol. I: 1809-39 by William Rubinstein

• Richard Fortey

  • Bugs and the Victorians by J.F.M. Clark

• Michael Wood
  Short Cuts: Delete!

• Boris Fishman

  • Cockroach by Rawi Hage

• Stephen Burt

  • Chronic: Poems by D.A. Powell

• Michael Kulikowski

  • 428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire by Giusto Traina, translated by Allan Cameron

• Peter Campbell
  In the Country: Trees

• Roy Mayall
  Diary: A Postman Speaks