Cover: Cressida Bell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Marianne Boruch
• Patrick Cockburn
• Terry Eagleton
• Jeremy Harding
• Rosemary Hill
• August Kleinzahler
• Mahmood Mamdani
• Adam Mars-Jones
• James Meek
• Peter Pomerantsev
• Robin Robertson
• Richard Seymour
• David Simpson
• Colm Tóibín
• Marina Warner
• Michael Wood

Contents

• James Meek
  How We Happened to Sell Off Our Electricity

• Letters
  Perry Anderson, Robert Boyers, David Elstein, Tam Dalyell, Rob Billington, Katherine Shillito

• Adam Mars-Jones

  • Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan

• Robin Robertson
  Poem: ‘The Coming God’

• Colm Tóibín

  • The Dream of the Celt by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Edith Grossman

• Rosemary Hill
  In Walthamstow: William Morris

• Mahmood Mamdani
  What is a tribe?

• Jeremy Harding
  Short Cuts

• David Simpson

  • The Sufferings of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Stanley Corngold

• Richard Seymour
  The Uses of al-Qaida

• Marianne Boruch
  Two Poems

• Terry Eagleton

  • Fanny Hill in Bombay: The Making and Unmaking of John Cleland by Hal Gladfelder

• Marina Warner
  In Hell: Wat Phai Rong Wua

• Michael Wood

  • Yellow Tulips: Poems 1968-2011 by James Fenton

• Patrick Cockburn
  A Prehistory of Extraordinary Rendition

• August Kleinzahler
  Poem: ‘A History of Western Music Chapter 63: Whitney Houston’

• Peter Pomerantsev
  Diary: In Brighton Beach