Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Robert Alter
• Julian Bell
• T.J. Clark
• Sheila Fitzpatrick
• James Harkin
• Thomas Jones
• August Kleinzahler
• David Morley
• Charles Nicholl
• Christopher Prendergast
• Will Self
• Sanjay Subrahmanyam
• Matthew Sweeney
• Christopher Tayler
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Sheila Fitzpatrick
  A Spy in the Archives

• Letters
  Norman Davies, Antony Polonsky, Roman Szporluk, Charles Coutinho, Richard J. Evans, Anthony Curtis, Caroline de Costa, Joseph Kerman, Matthew Barr, Stephen Longstaffe, Lois Lee, John A. Davis, Gerald Carpenter, François Thouvenot, Edgar Lloyd, Bill Myers, Gerard McBurney, Alison Mace, Christine Shuttleworth, Edward Buscombe, Martha Buddecke

• Charles Nicholl

  • The Arden Shakespeare: Double Falsehood edited by Brean Hammond

• Julian Bell

  • Salvator Rosa: Bandits, Wilderness and Magic by Helen Langdon, Xavier Salomon and Caterina Volpi
  • Painting for Profit: The Economic Lives of 17th-Century Italian Painters by Richard Spear and Philip Sohm et al
  • Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane by Andrew Graham-Dixon
  • The Moment of Caravaggio by Michael Fried

• James Harkin

  • Death to the Dictator!: Witnessing Iran’s Election and the Crippling of the Islamic Republic by Afsaneh Moqadam
  • The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom by Evgeny Morozov
  • Blogistan: The Internet and Politics in Iran by Annabelle Sreberny and Gholam Khiabany

• Christopher Prendergast
  Short Cuts: Sarah Palin’s Favourite Frenchman

• T.J. Clark
  At the Courtauld: Symptoms of Cézannoia

• Robert Alter

  • The Tables of the Law by Thomas Mann, translated by Marion Faber and Stephen Lehmann

• Sanjay Subrahmanyam

  • The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland South-East Asia by James C. Scott

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: ‘Peeping Tom’

• Christopher Tayler

  • J.G. Farrell in His Own Words: Selected Letters and Diaries edited by Lavinia Greacen

• Matthew Sweeney
  Two Poems

• Thomas Jones

  • Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy

• David Morley
  Three Poems

• Will Self

  • The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women by James Ellroy

• August Kleinzahler
  Diary: My Last Big Road Trip