Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Ashbery
• Christopher de Bellaigue
• Tom Bingham
• Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen
• John Burnside
• Peter Campbell
• Anne Carson
• Helen Cooper
• Daniel Finn
• Thomas Jones
• Colin Kidd
• James Lever
• Blake Morrison
• Michael Newton
• David Runciman
• Deyan Sudjic
• Marina Warner
• Michael Wood

Contents

• David Runciman

  • A Journey by Tony Blair

• Letters
  Edward Fullbrook, Kirsty Gunn, David Craig, Mark McGurl, Robert Crawford, Elizabeth Young, Matt Fretton, Andrew Wilton, Josephine Lloyd, Michael Robertson, Andrew Williams

• Helen Cooper

  • The Familiar Enemy: Chaucer, Language and Nation in the Hundred Years War by Ardis Butterfield

• James Lever

  • Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

• Blake Morrison

  • My Father’s Fortune: A Life by Michael Frayn

• Tom Bingham

  • Habeas Corpus: From England to Empire by Paul Halliday

• Anne Carson
  Two Sonnets

• Colin Kidd

  • Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life by Nicholas Phillipson
  • Adam Smith and the Circles of Sympathy: Cosmopolitanism and moral theory by Fonna Forman-Barzilai

• Marina Warner

  • Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood by Laurie Maguire

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Facebook Break-Ups

• John Burnside
  Two Poems

• Michael Newton

  • The Passion of Montgomery Clift by Amy Lawrence

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: ‘Certified Copy’

• Peter Campbell
  At Tate Britain: Rachel Whiteread

• Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen

  • Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder by David Healy

• Deyan Sudjic

  • The Architecture of Community by Léon Krier

• Daniel Finn

  • The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers’ Party by Brian Hanley and Scott Millar

• John Ashbery
  Two Poems

• Christopher de Bellaigue
  Diary: In Afghanistan