Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Julian Bell
• Alan Bennett
• Joanna Biggs
• T.J. Clark
• Jenny Diski
• Deborah Friedell
• Rosemary Hill
• Stephen Holmes
• Jackson Lears
• Ruth Padel
• Adam Phillips
• David Runciman
• Adam Shatz
• Ken Silverstein
• Colm Tóibín
• Marina Warner
• Bee Wilson
• Michael Wood

Contents

• David Runciman
  Will we be all right in the end?: Europe’s Crisis

• Letters
  Michael Burleigh, William Shawcross, Richard Beck, Michael Nabavian, Timon Screech, Clifton Hawkins, Edward Peck, Andrew McGettigan

• T.J. Clark
  The Chill of Disillusion: Leonardo da Vinci

  • Leonardo Da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan

• Marina Warner

  • Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe by Ulinka Rublack

• Jackson Lears

  • The Other Barack: The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama’s Father by Sally Jacobs
  • A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother by Janny Scott

• Adam Phillips
  Judas’ Gift: In Praise of Betrayal

• Adam Shatz
  Whose Egypt?

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: ‘Mysteries of Lisbon’

• Rosemary Hill

  • The Omnipotent Magician: Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown 1716-83 by Jane Brown

• Jenny Diski
  Short Cuts: The Future of Publishing

• Joanna Biggs

  • Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James

• Stephen Holmes

  • Mafia State: How One Reporter Became an Enemy of the Brutal New Russia by Luke Harding

• Ken Silverstein
  In Senegal

• Bee Wilson

  • Eva Braun: Life with Hitler by Heike Görtemaker, translated by Damion Searls

• Deborah Friedell

  • The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster
  • Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
  • Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin

• Ruth Padel
  Poem: ‘Revelation’

• Colm Tóibín
  Flann O’Brien’s Lies

• Julian Bell
  At the Whitechapel: Wilhelm Sasnal

• Alan Bennett
  Diary