Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Barrell
• David Bromwich
• Peter Campbell
• Jenny Diski
• Jeremy Harding
• Mike Jay
• Frank Kermode
• John Lanchester
• Diarmaid MacCulloch
• David Morley
• Benjamin Nathans
• Gareth Peirce
• Madeleine Reeves
• Christopher Turner
• Robert VanderMolen

Contents

• Jeremy Harding
  What We’re about to Receive: Food Insecurity

• Letters
  Rob Brown, Natasha Thoday, Bruce Bridgewood, Gavin Stamp, Judith Rascoe, Jenny Diski, Peter Connolly, Joseph Nuttgens, Martin Sanderson, Jonathan Lear, Jim Van Sant

• John Barrell
  Topography v. Landscape: Paul Sandby

  • Paul Sandby: Picturing Britain

• Frank Kermode
  Eliot and the Shudder

• John Lanchester
  Votes v. Seats

• Gareth Peirce
  America’s Non-Compliance: The Case against Extradition

• Peter Campbell
  At the Barbican: Ron Arad

• Jenny Diski
  Short Cuts: Melanie Phillips

• Diarmaid MacCulloch

  • The Italian Inquisition by Christopher Black

• David Morley
  Poem: ‘From “The Library beneath the Harp”’

• Benjamin Nathans

  • Meeting the Demands of Reason: The Life and Thought of Andrei Sakharov by Jay Bergman

• Madeleine Reeves
  The Latest Revolution: In Kyrgyzstan

• Mike Jay

  • The English Opium-Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey by Robert Morrison

• Christopher Turner

  • An Infinity of Things: How Sir Henry Wellcome Collected the World by Frances Larson

• Robert VanderMolen
  Poem: ‘Like the Feeling of Butcher’s Paper’

• David Bromwich
  Diary: The Establishment President