Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Stephen Burt
• Peter Campbell
• Stefan Collini
• Eric Hobsbawm
• Stephen Holmes
• Jackson Lears
• Alison Light
• Mark Mazower
• Alexander Murray
• Tom Nairn
• Miri Rubin
• Lorna Scott Fox
• Nicholas Spice
• Colm Tóibín

Contents

• Stephen Holmes

  • Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State by Garry Wills

• Letters
  Anne-Solange Noble, Paul Jenkinson, Nicholas Faith, Mazen Labban, Mary Ann Caws, Christopher Bollas

• Jackson Lears

  • Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us! by Ralph Nader

• Nicholas Spice

  • Family Britain 1951-57 by David Kynaston

• Tom Nairn

  • The End of the Party: The Rise and Fall of New Labour by Andrew Rawnsley
  • What Went Wrong, Gordon Brown?: How the Dream Job Turned Sour edited by Colin Hughes
  • Broonland: The Last Days of Gordon Brown by Christopher Harvie

• Stephen Burt
  Two Poems

• Colm Tóibín
  The Stubbornness of Lorenzo Lotto

• Lorna Scott Fox

  • Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector by Benjamin Moser
  • The Apple in the Dark by Clarice Lispector, translated by Gregory Rabassa

• Mark Mazower
  Short Cuts: The Armenian Genocide

• Eric Hobsbawm

  • Palmiro Togliatti: A Biography by Aldo Agosti, translated by Vanna Derosas and Jane Ennis
  • Il sarto di Ulm: Una possibile storia del PCI by Lucio Magri

• Alexander Murray

  • Saint Louis by Jacques Le Goff, translated by Gareth Evan Gollrad

• Miri Rubin

  • The Good Wife’s Guide: A Medieval Household Book translated by Gina Greco and Christine Rose

• Peter Campbell
  At Tate Britain: Chris Ofili

• Stefan Collini

  • Unleashing Aspiration: The Final Report of the Panel on Fair Access to the Professions
  • British Social Attitudes: The 26th Report
  • An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK: Report of the National Equality Panel

• Alison Light
  Diary: Wiltshire Baptists