Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Andrew Bacevich
• Peter Campbell
• Miranda Carter
• Don Coles
• Billy Collins
• William Feaver
• Charles Glass
• R.W. Johnson
• David Kaiser
• Andrew Nathan
• Bill Pearlman
• David Runciman
• Miles Taylor
• Jérôme Tubiana
• Robert Vitalis
• Geoffrey Wheatcroft
• Sam Willetts
• Michael Wood

Contents

• David Runciman

  • The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History in the White House by Taylor Branch

• Letters
  John Baxendale, Lorna Salzman, Jan Montefiore, Paul Fryer, Patrick Renshaw, Tim Leggatt, Daisy Bickley, Tony Watson, Steve Lane, Nigel Shardlow

• Andrew Bacevich
  Social Work with Guns: America’s Wars

• Michael Wood
  The Subtleties of Frank Kermode

• Billy Collins
  Poem: ‘The Poems of Others’

• William Feaver

  • John Piper, Myfanwy Piper: Lives in Art by Frances Spalding

• Miranda Carter

  • The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham by Selina Hastings

• Charles Glass

  • England’s Last War against France: Fighting Vichy 1940-42 by Colin Smith

• Don Coles
  Poem: ‘Places’

• Peter Campbell
  At the Ashmolean

• David Kaiser

  • The Lightness of Being: Big Questions, Real Answers by Frank Wilczek

• Robert Vitalis

  • Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil by Peter Maass

• Bill Pearlman
  Short Cuts: Hanging with Pynchon

• Andrew Nathan

  • Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang by Zhao Ziyang, translated by Bao Pu, Renee Chiang and Adi Ignatius

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: 'A Serious Man'

  • A Serious Man directed by Ethan Cohen and Joel Cohen

• Miles Taylor

  • The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels by Tristram Hunt
  • The Condition of the Working Class in England by Friedrich Engels

• Geoffrey Wheatcroft

  • My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times – An Autobiography by Harold Evans

• Sam Willetts
  Two Poems

• Jérôme Tubiana
  Why Chad isn’t Darfur and Darfur isn’t Rwanda: Chad’s Wars

• R.W. Johnson
  Diary: The World Cup