Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Colin Burrow
• Peter Campbell
• Robert Crawford
• Tim Dee
• Conor Gearty
• Helen Hackett
• Tessa Hadley
• Lynn Hunt
• R.W. Johnson
• John Lanchester
• Amy Larocca
• Jonathan Lear
• Yonatan Mendel
• James Oakes
• Frederick Seidel
• Adam Shatz
• David Simpson
• Christopher Tayler
• John Hartley Williams

Contents

• John Lanchester
  The Great British Economy Disaster: A Very Good Election to Lose

• Letters
  Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, Michelle Sommers, Deborah Frankel Reese, Gabriel Kahn, Timothy Johnston, Toril Moi, T.J. Clark, Richard Bowring, T.J. Gorton, Aidan Foster-Carter, Ian MacDougall, Oscar Turnill, B. Goff

• Lynn Hunt

  • The Devil in the Holy Water, or, The Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon by Robert Darnton
  • Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution: The Culture of Calumny and the Problem of Free Speech by Charles Walton

• Yonatan Mendel
  Hasbara: Israel’s ‘Public Diplomacy’

• David Simpson

  • War at a Distance: Romanticism and the Making of Modern Wartime by Mary Favret

• Frederick Seidel
  Poem: ‘London’

• R.W. Johnson

  • The Killer Trail: A Colonial Scandal in the Heart of Africa by Bertrand Taithe

• Colin Burrow

  • The Infinities by John Banville

• Tessa Hadley

  • The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam

• Robert Crawford
  Poem: ‘Guide’

• Helen Hackett

  • Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro

• Adam Shatz
  Short Cuts: The Short Career of Amy Bishop

• Christopher Tayler

  • The Blaze of Obscurity: The TV Years by Clive James

• Amy Larocca

  • Stripping Gypsy: The Life of Gypsy Rose Lee by Noralee Frankel
  • Gypsy: The Art of the Tease by Rachel Shteir

• Peter Campbell
  At the Gagosian: ‘Crash’

• Conor Gearty

  • The Law of Human Rights by Richard Clayton and Hugh Tomlinson
  • Human Rights Law and Practice edited by Anthony Lester, David Pannick and Javan Herberg
  • Human Rights: Judicial Protection in the United Kingdom by Jack Beatson, Stephen Grosz, Tom Hickman, Rabinder Singh and Stephanie Palmer

• James Oakes

  • Slavery in White and Black: Class and Race in the Southern Slaveholders’ New World Order by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene Genovese

• John Hartley Williams
  Poem: ‘Memory of the Night of 4’

• Jonathan Lear

  • The Evocative Object World by Christopher Bollas
  • The Infinite Question by Christopher Bollas

• Tim Dee
  Diary: Twitching