Cover: Alice Spawls

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Barrell
• Elif Batuman
• Owen Bennett-Jones
• Colin Burrow
• Brian Dillon
• Allan Gibbard
• Jonathan Littell
• James Meek
• Vladimir Nabokov
• Andrew O’Hagan
• David Runciman
• Theo Tait
• Christopher Tayler
• Tim Whitmarsh
• Michael Wood
• Slavoj Žižek

Contents

• David Runciman

  • The New Few, or a Very British Oligarchy: Power and Inequality in Britain Now by Ferdinand Mount

• Letters
  David Campbell, Perry Anderson, Bruce Jennings, Matthew Barton, Jacqueline Rose, Gabriel Piterberg, Jeremy Shearmur, Derek Summerfield, Hilary Rose and Steven Rose, Sabine Lange

• Andrew O’Hagan

  • The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Vol. I, 1907-22 edited by Sandra Spanier and Robert Trogdon

• Owen Bennett-Jones

  • Terror Tagging of an Iranian Dissident Organisation by Raymond Tanter

• Slavoj Žižek
  Save us from the saviours: Europe and the Greeks

• Vladimir Nabokov translated by Dmitri Nabokov
  Poem: ‘The University Poem’

• Colin Burrow

  • Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

• Theo Tait

  • Kapow! by Adam Thirlwell

• Allan Gibbard

  • On What Matters by Derek Parfit

• James Meek
  Short Cuts: Yulia Tymoshenko

• Tim Whitmarsh

  • The School of Rome: Latin Studies and the Origins of Liberal Education by Martin Bloomer

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: ‘The Dictator’

• Christopher Tayler

  • Hergé: The Man who Created Tintin by Pierre Assouline, translated by Charles Ruas
  • Hergé, Son of Tintin by Benoît Peeters, translated by Tina Kover

• Brian Dillon
  At Tate Britain: Patrick Keiller

• John Barrell

  • The First English Detectives: The Bow Street Runners and the Policing of London, 1750-1840 by J.M. Beattie

• Jonathan Littell
  Lost in the Void: In Ciudad Juárez

• Elif Batuman
  Diary: Pamuk’s Museum