Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Safa Al Ahmad
• Neal Ascherson
• Mohamad Bazzi
• John Burnside
• Peter Campbell
• Stefan Collini
• Jon Day
• Howard Hotson
• Diarmaid MacCulloch
• Ross McKibbin
• Tim Parks
• Charles Simic
• Galen Strawson
• Theo Tait
• Nick Wilding
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Michael Wood

  • The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose Vol. IV, 1956-62 edited by Edward Mendelson

• Letters
  Peter Brooks, Dhananjay Jagannathan, Richard Barltrop, Howard Cooper, John Owen, Nigel Ganly, Iain Bamforth, Howard Millbank, Michael Davies, Penelope Woolfitt, Léo Burton

• Ross McKibbin
  Can Clegg be forgiven?

• Neal Ascherson
  Wolves in the Drawing Room: The SNP

• Stefan Collini

  • Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography by John Hall

• Mohamad Bazzi
  We don’t want to lose you, but we think you ought to go: Bashar al-Assad

• Tim Parks

  • Wish You Were Here by Graham Swift

• Peter Campbell
  At the Wellcome: ‘Dirt’

• Theo Tait

  • At Last by Edward St Aubyn

• Howard Hotson
  Short Cuts: For-Profit Universities

• Jon Day

  • Swamplandia! by Karen Russell

• John Burnside
  I put a spell on you: Murder in Corby

• Galen Strawson

  • Saving God: Religion after Idolatry by Mark Johnston
  • Surviving Death by Mark Johnston

• Diarmaid MacCulloch

  • Christians and Pagans: The Conversion of Britain from Alban to Bede by Malcolm Lambert

• Nick Wilding

  • Galileo: Watcher of the Skies by David Wootton
  • Galileo by J.L. Heilbron

• Charles Simic
  Two Poems

• Safa Al Ahmad
  Diary: In Saudi Arabia