Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Christopher de Bellaigue
• Colin Burrow
• Peter Campbell
• Patrick Collinson
• Ian Gilmour
• Jorie Graham
• Thomas Jones
• Joanna Kavenna
• Ross McKibbin
• Thomas Nagel
• John Sutherland
• David Sylvester

Contents

• David Sylvester
  Memoirs of a Pet Lamb: A memoir

• Letters
  Nick Ainsley, Murray Sayle, Adrian Bowyer, John Stow, Chris Purnell, Zachary Leader, Daniel Eisenstein, Peter Wollen, William Lamont

• Ross McKibbin
  The Tax-and-Spend Vote: will the election improve New Labour’s grasp on reality?

• Ian Gilmour
  Little Mercians: why Kenneth Clarke should lead the Tories

• Colin Burrow

  • A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres by George Gascoigne, edited by G.W. Pigman

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: the biography of stuff

• Patrick Collinson

  • Under the Molehill: An Elizabethan Spy Story by John Bossy

• Jorie Graham
  Four Poems

• Thomas Nagel

  • republic.com by Cass Sunstein

• Peter Campbell
  At the National Gallery: Vermeer and de Hooch

• John Sutherland

  • Book Business: Publishing Past, Present and Future by Jason Epstein

• Joanna Kavenna

  • A Friend of the Earth by T.C. Boyle

• Christopher de Bellaigue
  Diary: getting married in Iran