CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Peter Campbell
• Greg Grandin
• Lidija Haas
• David Harsent
• J. Hoberman
• Glen Newey
• Lawrence Norfolk
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Hugh Pennington
• Adam Phillips
• Bernard Porter
• Christopher Prendergast
• Stephen Sedley
• Jeremy Waldron
• Eliot Weinberger
• Bee Wilson
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Eliot Weinberger

  • Decision Points by George W. Bush

• Letters
  Kit Withnail, Angus MacDonald, Simon Szreter, Hubertus Jahn, Lorna Finlayson, Steven Methven, Peter James

• Andrew O’Hagan

  • Saul Bellow: Letters edited by Benjamin Taylor

• Hugh Pennington
  Bug-Affairs

• Stephen Sedley
  When should a judge not be a judge?

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: ‘The Shop around the Corner’

• Jeremy Waldron

  • Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power, from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond by David Runciman
  • Virtues of Mendacity: On Lying in Politics by Martin Jay

• Lawrence Norfolk
  Thoughts about Boars and Paul Celan

• Lidija Haas

  • What to Look for in Winter: A Memoir in Blindness by Candia McWilliam

• Christopher Prendergast
  Short Cuts: Student Loans

• Adam Phillips

  • The Sixties: Diaries 1960-69 by Christopher Isherwood, edited by Katherine Bucknell

• Bernard Porter

  • The Gun: The AK-47 and the Evolution of War by C.J. Chivers

• J. Hoberman

  • Red Plenty: Industry! Progress! Abundance! Inside the 1950s’ Soviet Dream by Francis Spufford

• Greg Grandin

  • Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

• David Harsent
  Poem: ‘The Queen Bee Canticles’

• Peter Campbell
  At the National Portrait Gallery: Thomas Lawrence

• Bee Wilson

  • Mistresses: A History of the Other Woman by Elizabeth Abbott

• Glen Newey
  Diary: Life with WikiLeaks