Cover: Cressida Bell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Julian Bell
• Colin Burrow
• Peter Campbell
• Andrew Cockburn
• Wystan Curnow
• Sheila Fitzpatrick
• Nicholas Guyatt
• Rebecca Karl
• Colin Kidd
• James Meek
• Steven Mithen
• Michael Neill
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Tim Parks
• David Patrikarakos
• Frederick Seidel
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Tim Parks

  • The Letters of Samuel Beckett: 1941-56 edited by George Craig, Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Dan Gunn and Lois More Overbeck

• Letters
  Hisham Matar, Niall Ferguson, Pankaj Mishra, Brian Porter, Alan Penny, Jenny Diski, Harriet Hodge, Dave Horsfield, Marc Morris, James Bainbridge, C. Coghlan

• Frederick Seidel
  Poem: ‘Rome’

• Colin Burrow

  • The Tragedy of Arthur by Arthur Phillips

• Michael Neill

  • Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture by Louise Noble
  • Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires: The History of Corpse Medicine from the Renaissance to the Victorians by Richard Sugg

• Steven Mithen

  • Origin of Our Species by Chris Stringer

• David Patrikarakos
  Doing It by Ourselves: Nuclear Iran

• Wystan Curnow
  Poem: ‘Young Yvonne’

• Andrew Cockburn

  • Late for Tea at the Deer Palace: The Lost Dreams of My Iraqi Family by Tamara Chalabi
  • From Dictatorship to Democracy: An Insider’s Account of the Iraqi Opposition to Saddam by Hamid al-Bayati

• Rebecca Karl

  • Strangers on the Western Front: Chinese Workers in the Great War by Xu Guoqi

• Andrew O’Hagan
  Short Cuts: ‘The ARRSE Guide’

• Peter Campbell
  Memories of New Zealand: Memories of New Zealand

• Nicholas Guyatt

  • The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner

• Julian Bell
  At the Ashmolean: Claude Lorrain

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: ‘The Ides of March’

• Colin Kidd

  • Then Everything Changed: Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics: JFK, RFK, Carter, Ford, Reagan by Jeff Greenfield
  • 11.22.63 by Stephen King

• Sheila Fitzpatrick

  • Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets by Wendy Lesser
  • Shostakovich in Dialogue: Form, Imagery and Ideas in Quartets 1-7 by Judith Kuhn

• James Meek
  Diary: In Athens