Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Alex Abramovich
• Tariq Ali
• John Barrell
• Stefan Collini
• Hal Foster
• Deborah Friedell
• John Gray
• R.W. Johnson
• Jonathan Littell
• Diarmaid MacCulloch
• Bernard Porter
• Andrew Saint
• Michael Wood
• Slavoj Žižek

Contents

• Jonathan Littell
  Chechnya, Year III: Ramzan Kadyrov

• Letters
  Jacob Empson, R.W. Johnson, Gabriel Laszlo, Ernesto Priego, Inigo Thomas, Charlie Hill, Thomas Jones, Renee Slater

• Slavoj Žižek
  Post-Wall: Neo-Anti-Communism

• Michael Wood

  • Carnets du voyage en Chine by Roland Barthes
  • Journal de deuil by Roland Barthes

• John Gray

  • Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller

• Bernard Porter

  • The Defence of the Realm: The Authorised History of MI5 by Christopher Andrew

• Stefan Collini

  • English Journey by J.B. Priestley

• Tariq Ali
  Short Cuts: Af-Pak

• John Barrell

  • The Atmosphere of Heaven: The Unnatural Experiments of Dr Beddoes and His Sons of Genius by Mike Jay

• Diarmaid MacCulloch

  • Selling the Tudor Monarchy: Authority and Image in 16th-Century England by Kevin Sharpe

• Andrew Saint

  • Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the 21st-Century City by Anna Minton

• Deborah Friedell

  • A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore

• Hal Foster
  At the Hayward: Ed Ruscha

• Alex Abramovich

  • I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett

• R.W. Johnson
  Diary: Magdalen College