Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Mary Beard
• Colin Burrow
• T.J. Clark
• Robert Crawford
• Emma Dench
• Issandr El Amrani
• Anne Enright
• Sheila Fitzpatrick
• Jeremy Harding
• Tony Harrison
• Thomas Jones
• David Kaiser
• Mark Kishlansky
• John Lanchester
• Robin Robertson
• Adam Shatz
• Henry Siegman
• Christopher Tayler
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Issandr El Amrani
  Why Tunis, Why Cairo?

• Letters
  J. Oldaker, Joseph Choonara, Martin Sanderson, William Sherman, Morris Singer, Simon Down, David Maclagan, Stephen Kay, Gordon Petherbridge, Damian Grant, David Arney, Malcolm Mitchell, Phil Gyford, Brian McAvera, Osi Rhys Osmond, François Thouvenot, David Auerbach

• Henry Siegman
  Obama’s Choice

• Adam Shatz
  After Mubarak

• Michael Wood

  • Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

• Robin Robertson
  Two Poems

• Sheila Fitzpatrick

  • Lost to the Collective: Suicide and the Promise of Soviet Socialism, 1921-29 by Kenneth Pinnow

• Jeremy Harding

  • Talking to the Enemy: Violent Extremism, Sacred Values and What It Means to Be Human by Scott Atran

• Tony Harrison
  Poem: ‘Cornet and Cartridge’

• Mark Kishlansky

  • The Complete Works of Gerrard Winstanley by Thomas Corns, Ann Hughes and David Loewenstein

• Colin Burrow

  • The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vols XXI-XXIII: The Lives of the Poets edited by John Middendorf

• John Lanchester
  Short Cuts: Unlikeabilityfest

• Mary Beard

  • Full Circle: How the Classical World Came Back to Us by Ferdinand Mount

• Robert Crawford
  Two Poems

• Emma Dench

  • Popular Culture in Ancient Rome by Jerry Toner

• Christopher Tayler

  • The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman

• Thomas Jones

  • Pulse by Julian Barnes
  • Nothing to Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes

• T.J. Clark
  At Tate Modern: Gabriel Orozco

• David Kaiser

  • Cycles of Time by Roger Penrose
  • How Old Is the Universe? by David Weintraub

• Anne Enright
  Diary: Lessons from Angela Carter