Cover: Rupert Thomas

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
• Simon Armitage
• Julian Bell
• Malcolm Bull
• Richard J. Evans
• Mark Ford
• Charles Glass
• Rosemary Hill
• Gideon Lewis-Kraus
• Hilary Mantel
• Adam Mars-Jones
• Yonatan Mendel
• Philip Nobel
• Andrew O’Hagan
• David Runciman
• Jenny Turner
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Hilary Mantel
  Royal Bodies

• Letters
  Alex Bailin, Vance Maverick, Robert Kaplan, Fazia Aitel, Chris Edwards, George Irvin, Howard Reed, Mary Baldwin, Marc Haefele, Mary Camps, Rob Close, Murray Biggs

• David Runciman

  • An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo by Richard Davenport-Hines

• Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
  How to Start a Battalion (in Five Easy Lessons): In Syria

• Malcolm Bull

  • On Global Justice by Mathias Risse

• Simon Armitage
  Poem: ‘Deor’

• Adam Mars-Jones

  • Harvest by Jim Crace

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: ‘Zero Dark Thirty’

• Gideon Lewis-Kraus

  • Unlikely Warriors: The British in the Spanish Civil War and the Struggle against Fascism by Richard Baxell
  • I Am Spain: The Spanish Civil War and the Men and Women Who Went to Fight Fascism by David Boyd Haycock

• Andrew O’Hagan
  Short Cuts

• Rosemary Hill

  • The Love-Charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War by Lara Feigel

• Jenny Turner

  • Every Short Story 1951-2012 by Alasdair Gray

• Julian Bell
  At the Royal Academy: Manet

• Charles Glass

  • House of Stone by Anthony Shadid

• Mark Ford

  • Baudelaire: The Complete Verse edited and translated by Francis Scarfe
  • Baudelaire: Paris Blues/Le Spleen de Paris edited and translated by Francis Scarfe
  • Seeing Double: Baudelaire’s Modernity by Françoise Meltzer

• Philip Nobel

  • To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure by Henry Petroski

• Richard J. Evans

  • Was Hitler Ill? by Hans-Joachim Neumann and Henrik Eberle, translated by Nick Somers

• Yonatan Mendel
  Diary: Israel’s Election