Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Ashbery
• Alan Bennett
• Judith Butler
• Peter Campbell
• Stefan Collini
• Robert Crawford
• Jenny Diski
• Durs Grünbein
• Michael Hofmann
• Thomas Jones
• Frank Kermode
• Colin Kidd
• August Kleinzahler
• Thomas Laqueur
• James Meek
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Jacqueline Rose
• Elaine Showalter
• Theo Tait
• Michael Wood
• James Wood
• Slavoj Žižek

Contents

• Michael Wood

  • The Plot against America by Philip Roth

• Letters
  Stephen Sedley, Jeremy Harding, John M.W. Scott, Gillian Hughes, R.W. Johnson

• Thomas Laqueur

  • Eichmann: His Life and Crimes by David Cesarani
  • Photographing the Holocaust: Interpretations of the Evidence by Janina Struk

• John Ashbery
  Two Poems

• James Meek

  • The Hive: The Story of the Honey-Bee and Us by Bee Wilson

• Colin Kidd

  • The Right Nation: Why America Is Different by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
  • Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet by James Mann
  • Nixon’s Shadow: The History of an Image by David Greenberg
  • America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism by Anatol Lieven

• Elaine Showalter
  Mexxed Missages: a road trip through Middle America

• Slavoj Žižek
  Over the Rainbow: Populist Conservatism

• Jacqueline Rose

  • My Life Is a Weapon: A Modern History of Suicide Bombing by Christoph Reuter, translated by Helena Ragg-Kirkby
  • Army of Roses: Inside the World of Palestinian Women Suicide Bombers by Barbara Victor

• Robert Crawford
  Three Poems

• Alan Bennett
  A Common Assault: in Italy

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Ukip’s wrinkly glitz

• Frank Kermode

  • T.S. Eliot: The Contemporary Reviews by Jewel Spears Brooker

• Judith Butler
  Jacques Derrida: commemorating ‘one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century’

• Jenny Diski

  • Ghosting by Jennie Erdal

• Stefan Collini

  • V.S. Pritchett: A Working Life by Jeremy Treglown

• Peter Campbell
  At Tate Modern: Bruce Nauman’s Raw Materials

• Theo Tait

  • Magic Seeds by V.S. Naipaul

• Durs Grünbein translated by Michael Hofmann
  Two Poems

• James Wood

  • Jane Austen and the Morality of Conversation by Bharat Tandon
  • Jane Austen, or The Secret of Style by D.A. Miller

• Andrew O’Hagan

  • Poems to Last a Lifetime edited by Daisy Goodwin
  • All the Poems You Need to Say I Do edited by Peter Forbes

• August Kleinzahler
  Diary: remembering Thom Gunn