Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Peter Campbell
• Anne Carson
• Emma Dench
• Jenny Diski
• Keith Gessen
• Jorie Graham
• Richard Hamblyn
• August Kleinzahler
• Ross McKibbin
• Peter Mair
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Susan Pedersen
• John Pemble
• Seamus Perry
• Graham Robb
• Will Self
• Tim Whitmarsh
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Keith Gessen

  • The Quality of Freedom: Khodorkovsky, Putin and the Yukos Affair by Richard Sakwa

• Letters
  William Wheeler, David Rose, Jeremy Bernstein, Anne Summers, Klemens Renoldner et al, Colin Crisp, Mark Williams, Adam Barker, Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Malcolm Ross, Laleh Khalili

• Ross McKibbin
  Good for Business: The End of Research?

• Susan Pedersen

  • Demobbed: Coming Home after the Second World War by Alan Allport
  • The Flyer: British Culture and the Royal Air Force, 1939-45 by Martin Francis

• Anne Carson
  Poem: ‘Good Dog’

• Andrew O’Hagan

  • The Book of the Moon by Rick Stroud
  • Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon by Craig Nelson
  • Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon by Buzz Aldrin, with Ken Abraham

• Graham Robb

  • The Gargoyles of Notre-Dame: Medievalism and the Monsters of Modernity by Michael Camille

• Jorie Graham
  Poem: ‘Untitled’

• Richard Hamblyn

  • To Sea and Back: The Heroic Life of the Atlantic Salmon by Richard Shelton

• Peter Campbell
  At Victoria Miro: William Eggleston

• Seamus Perry

  • Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voice of the Enlightenment by William McCarthy

• Jenny Diski
  Short Cuts: Fragrant Antonia Fraser

• Tim Whitmarsh

  • Lucian: A Selection edited by Neil Hopkinson

• Emma Dench

  • Rome’s Cultural Revolution by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill

• John Pemble

  • Incest and Influence: The Private Life of Bourgeois England by Adam Kuper

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: Yasujiro Ozu

  • Yasujiro Ozu Season

• Peter Mair

  • A Very British Revolution: The Expenses Scandal and How to Save Our Democracy by Martin Bell

• August Kleinzahler
  Poem: ‘Closing It Down on the Palisades’

• Will Self
  Diary: On the Common