Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Gabriele Annan
• John Ashbery
• Alan Bennett
• Stephen Burt
• Harry Clifton
• Jerry Fodor
• Luke Hughes
• R.W. Johnson
• Thomas Jones
• Ross McKibbin
• James Meek
• John Mullan
• Reviel Netz
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Robin Robertson
• Lorna Scott Fox
• Rory Stewart
• John Sturrock
• Andrew Sugden
• Theo Tait
• Peter Wollen
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Ross McKibbin
  Make enemies and influence people: Why Vote Labour?

• Letters
  George Braddon, Patrick McGuinness, Andrew Cowan, Scott Ashley, David Hawkes, Lynne Segal, Marion Kozak, Jo Kelly, Adrian Bowyer, Philip Russell, A. Duane, William Gilbert, Fergus Carroll, Steven Maynard, Michael Payne, Henry Gee, Julian Connerty, Jeffrey Frankland, Robert Fraser, Martin Murray

• Andrew O’Hagan

  • The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky edited by Joan Acocella, translated by Kyril Fitzylon
  • Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by Modris Eksteins

• James Meek

  • A Fly for the Prosecution: How Insect Evidence Helps Solves Crimes by Lee Goff

• Michael Wood

  • Goethe: The Poet and the Age. Volume II: Revolution and Reunciation, 1790-1803 by Nicholas Boyle
  • Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by John Williams

• John Mullan

  • To the Hermitage by Malcolm Bradbury

• Alan Bennett
  Memories of Lindsay Anderson

• Thomas Jones

  • Mainly about Linsay Anderson by Gavin Lambert

• Jerry Fodor

  • The Threefold Cord: Mind, Body and World by Hilary Putnam

• R.W. Johnson
  After the Election: in Zimbabwe

• Robin Robertson
  Two Poems

• Peter Wollen
  Scaling Up: At Tate Modern

• John Sturrock
  Short Cuts

• Stephen Burt

  • In Memory of My Feelings: Frank O’Hara and American Art by Russell Ferguson
  • The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets by David Lehman
  • Frank O’Hara: Poet among Painters by Marjorie Perloff

• Reviel Netz
  Barbed Wire

• John Ashbery
  Two Prose Poems

• Lorna Scott Fox

  • Death and Money in the Afternoon: A History of the Spanish Bullfight by Adrian Shubert

• Theo Tait

  • Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje

• Gabriele Annan

  • Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

• Luke Hughes

  • Ghosts of Everest: The Authorised Story of the Search for Mallory & Irvine by Jochen Hemmleb and Larry Johnson
  • Lost on Everest: The Search for Mallory and Irvine by Peter Firstbrook
  • The Last Climb: The Legendary Everest Expeditions of George Mallory by David Breashears and Audrey Salkeld

• Andrew Sugden

  • Killer Algae: The True Tale of Biological Invasion by Alexandre Meinesz, translated by Daniel Simberloff

• Harry Clifton
  Poem: ‘The Bird-Haunt’

• Rory Stewart
  Diary