Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• David A. Bell
• Rachel Bowlby
• David Bromwich
• Christopher Clark
• David Cole
• Brian Dillon
• Jenny Diski
• William Feaver
• Greg Grandin
• Ross McKibbin
• Michael Neill
• Nicolas Pelham
• David Runciman
• David Simpson

Contents

• David Runciman

  • The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett

• Letters
  Robin Dibblee, Isobel Armstrong, Colin Armstrong, Michael McGrath, Robert Hunter, Paul Trewhela, Roland Chambers, Christopher Miller, Mark Micale, Daniel Caola, Fawaz Ghitani, Malcolm Deas, Nicolas Buchele.

• David Bromwich
  Obama’s Delusion: The Presidential Letdown

• Michael Neill

  • Shakespeare, Love and Service by David Schalkwyk

• David A. Bell

  • Beaumarchais: A Biography by Maurice Lever, translated by Susan Emanuel

• Christopher Clark

  • The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One by Miranda Carter

• Ross McKibbin
  At the Tory Conference

• Brian Dillon

  • The Escape by Adam Thirlwell

• Jenny Diski
  Short Cuts: Periods

• David Simpson

  • Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh

• David Cole

  • The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial by Moshik Temkin

• Rachel Bowlby

  • Checkout: A Life on the Tills by Anna Sam

• William Feaver
  In the Studio: Sitting for Frank Auerbach

• Greg Grandin

  • Leftovers: Tales of the Latin American Left edited by Jorge Castañeda and Marco Morales

• Nicolas Pelham
  Diary: In Gaza