Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Barrell
• John Burnside
• Peter Campbell
• Peter Clarke
• Gillian Darley
• Ed Harriman
• Anne Hollander
• Rosalind Krauss
• Andrew Motion
• Gilberto Perez
• Richard Rorty
• Sara Roy
• David Runciman
• Andrew Saint
• Lorna Scott Fox
• James Secord
• Emily Wilson
• Peter Wollen

Contents

• Gilberto Perez

  • Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at 70 by Colin MacCabe

• Letters
  Ivor Potts, Mary Elkins, William McCarthy, Jordan Scher, James McCarthy, Joel Kanter, John Roberts, Robert Ball, Colin Buckland

• Anne Hollander

  • Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work by Hayden Herrera
  • Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective of Drawings edited by Janie Lee and Melvin Lader

• Richard Rorty
  Post-Democracy: anti-terrorism and the national security state

• David Runciman
  The Precautionary Principle: Taking a Chance on War

• Ed Harriman

  • A Time of Our Choosing: America’s War in Iraq by Todd Purdom

• Peter Clarke

  • The Prudence of Mr Gordon Brown by William Keegan

• Andrew Motion
  Poem: ‘The Wave’

• John Barrell
  The Reptile Oculist: on the trail of the mysterious John Taylor

• Sara Roy
  Short Cuts: The silencing of US academics

• Gillian Darley

  • Ernö Goldfinger: The Life of an Architect by Nigel Warburton

• John Burnside
  Poem: ‘Shapeshifters’

• Andrew Saint

  • Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

• Peter Wollen

  • Kazimir Malevich: Suprematism edited by Matthew Drutt

• Rosalind Krauss

  • Picasso and the Invention of Cubism by Pepe Karmel

• James Secord

  • When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time by Michael Benton

• Peter Campbell
  In Lille: Rubens

• Emily Wilson

  • Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer

• Lorna Scott Fox
  Diary: Aznar’s Mistake