Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Judith Butler
• Peter Campbell
• Joshua Cohen
• David Cole
• Alastair Crooke
• Terry Eagleton
• Jorie Graham
• Jim Holt
• Thomas Jones
• Joshua Kurlantzick
• Nick Laird
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Ian Sansom
• C.K. Stead
• John Hartley Williams
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Judith Butler
  Who Owns Kafka?

• Letters
  Diana Johnstone, Edward Pearce, Keith Flett, Charles Coutinho, Ron Haggart, Henry Phillips, Robert Hanks, Nicholas Bateson, Jemima Barnes

• Jim Holt

  • The Shallows: How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember by Nicholas Carr

• Peter Campbell
  At Tate Britain: ‘Watercolour’

• Terry Eagleton

  • How to Change the World: Marx and Marxism 1840-2011 by Eric Hobsbawm

• David Cole

  • Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition by David Garland

• John Hartley Williams
  Poem: ‘My Way’

• Ian Sansom

  • Caribou Island by David Vann

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: ‘Niche’

• C.K. Stead
  Battle of the Wasps: Eliot v. Mansfield

• Joshua Cohen

  • Cut Throat Dog by Joshua Sobol, translated by Dalya Bilu

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: ‘Les Diaboliques’

• Alastair Crooke
  Permanent Temporariness: The Palestine Papers

• Joshua Kurlantzick

  • My Friend the Fanatic: Travels with a Radical Islamist by Sadanand Dhume
  • Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power by Robert Kaplan
  • Understanding Islam in Indonesia: Politics and Diversity by Robert Pringle

• Nick Laird

  • Letters of Louis MacNeice edited by Jonathan Allison

• Jorie Graham
  Poem: ‘Dialogue (of the Imagination’s Fear)’

• Andrew O’Hagan
  Diary: Dr Macgregor’s Diagnosis