Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Tariq Ali
• Peter Campbell
• David Carpenter
• Andrew Cockburn
• Linda Colley
• Deborah Friedell
• Charles Glass
• Nick Holdstock
• R.W. Johnson
• Jamie McKendrick
• Clancy Martin
• James Meek
• Ferdinand Mount
• Adam Phillips
• Tom Shippey
• Daniel Soar
• Thomas Sugrue
• Michael Wood

Contents

• James Meek

  • The Death of Tolstoy: Russia on the Eve, Astapovo Station, 1910 by William Nickell
  • The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy translated by Cathy Porter
  • A Confession by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Anthony Briggs
  • Anniversary Essays on Tolstoy by Donna Tussing Orwin

• Letters
  Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Derek Robinson, Colin McArthur, Brian Barder, Diana Burfield, Giovanni Carsaniga, Stephen Kessler, Michael Wood, Stephen Sedley, Zoe Williams, Alex Bailin, Roy Kift, Tracey Hill

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: Godard’s ‘Breathless’

• Andrew Cockburn

  • Invisible War: The United States and the Iraq Sanctions by Joy Gordon

• Jamie McKendrick
  Poem: ‘Epithets’

• Tariq Ali
  Not Crushed, Merely Ignored: Death in Kashmir

• Linda Colley

  • A Mad, Bad & Dangerous People? England 1783-1846 by Boyd Hilton
  • Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld, 1780-1939 by James Belich

• Ferdinand Mount

  • Edward Heath by Philip Ziegler

• Charles Glass

  • Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War Two by Ben Macintyre

• Adam Phillips

  • True Friendship: Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht and Robert Lowell under the Sign of Eliot and Pound by Christopher Ricks

• Daniel Soar
  Short Cuts: Spies

• Clancy Martin

  • The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

• Deborah Friedell

  • Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck’s Life in China by Hilary Spurling

• Nick Holdstock
  Burning Books

• Tom Shippey

  • The Hammer and the Cross: A New History of the Vikings by Robert Ferguson

• David Carpenter

  • Richard II: Manhood, Youth and Politics, 1377-99 by Christopher Fletcher

• Thomas Sugrue

  • The Kennedy Assassination: 24 Hours After by Steven Gillon

• Peter Campbell
  At the National Gallery: Fakes

• R.W. Johnson
  Diary: World Cup Diary