Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Tariq Ali
• Mary Beard
• Christopher de Bellaigue
• David Blackbourn
• Kristina Božič
• John Burnside
• Peter Campbell
• Günter Eich
• Michael Hofmann
• Thomas Jones
• Tony Judt
• Frank Kermode
• Joshua Kurlantzick
• Aaron Matz
• Ange Mlinko
• Chris Mullin
• Andrew O’Hagan
• David Runciman
• Galen Strawson
• Michael Wood

Contents

• David Runciman

  • The Politician: An Insider’s Account of John Edwards’s Pursuit of the Presidency and the Scandal That Brought Him Down by Andrew Young
  • Race of a Lifetime: How Obama Won the White House by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin

• Letters
  Iain Pears, Bill Manhire, Nancy Bauer, Pamela Blevins

• Tony Judt and Kristina Božič
  The Way Things Are and How They Might Be: An Interview

• David Blackbourn

  • The Silences of Hammerstein by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, translated by Martin Chalmers

• Thomas Jones

  • Solar by Ian McEwan

• Peter Campbell
  At Tate Britain: Henry Moore

• Galen Strawson

  • 36 Arguments for the Existence of God by Rebecca Goldstein

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: ‘Alice in Wonderland’

• Ange Mlinko

  • The Verse Revolutionaries: Ezra Pound, H.D. and the Imagists by Helen Carr

• Chris Mullin
  Short Cuts: Michael Foot

• Aaron Matz

  • Normance by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, translated by Marlon Jones

• Frank Kermode

  • A History of Christianity: The First 3000 Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch

• Tariq Ali
  Unhappy Yemen

• John Burnside
  Three Poems

• Christopher de Bellaigue

  • Twelve Days in Persia by Vita Sackville-West

• Mary Beard

  • History Man: The Life of R.G. Collingwood by Fred Inglis

• Joshua Kurlantzick

  • Tearing Apart the Land: Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand by Duncan McCargo

• Günter Eich translated by Michael Hofmann
  Five Poems

• Andrew O’Hagan
  Diary: Jon Venables