Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• James Buchan
• John Burnside
• Peter Campbell
• Jenny Diski
• Richard J. Evans
• Daniel Finn
• Mark Ford
• Hal Foster
• Steve Fraser
• Deborah Friedell
• Jorie Graham
• David Haglund
• Glen Newey
• Iain Pears
• Tom Shippey
• Stephen W. Smith
• Jonathan Steele
• Theo Tait
• Colm Tóibín

Contents

• Stephen W. Smith
  Rwanda in Six Scenes

• Letters
  Martin Jenkins, Tillman Schreibinger, Rex Winsbury, Jonathan Allison, Dominic Al-Badri, Lawrence Hansen, Basem Ra’ad, Martin Shaw, Frederick Sweet, Scott Atran, Julian Bell

• Richard J. Evans
  The Wonderfulness of Us: The Tory Interpretation of History

• Iain Pears
  After Browne

• Colm Tóibín
  The Importance of Aunts

• Jorie Graham
  Poem: ‘Torn Score’

• Peter Campbell
  At the National Gallery: Jan Gossaert

• Theo Tait

  • Hate: A Romance by Tristan Garcia, translated by Marion Duvert and Lorin Stein

• David Haglund

  • Palo Alto: Stories by James Franco

• Steve Fraser

  • Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the 1970s by Judith Stein
  • Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class by Jefferson Cowie

• John Burnside
  Poem: ‘Narrative’

• Deborah Friedell
  Short Cuts: ‘Donors Choose’

• Mark Ford

  • Democratic Vistas by Walt Whitman, edited by Ed Folsom

• James Buchan

  • The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran’s Future edited by Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel
  • The Ayatollahs’ Democracy: An Iranian Challenge by Hooman Majd

• Hal Foster

  • The Beast and the Sovereign. Vol. I by Jacques Derrida, translated by Geoffrey Bennington

• Tom Shippey

  • Britain after Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400-1070 by Robin Fleming

• Jonathan Steele
  Half a Revolution: In Tunisia

• Glen Newey

  • Walled States, Waning Sovereignty by Wendy Brown

• Jenny Diski

  • The Fugitive in Flight: Faith, Liberalism and Law in a Classic TV Show by Stanley Fish

• Daniel Finn
  Diary: Ireland’s Election