Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Neal Ascherson
• Andy Beckett
• Dinah Birch
• Peter Campbell
• Elizabeth Cook
• Sheila Fitzpatrick
• James Hamilton-Paterson
• R.W. Johnson
• Thomas Jones
• August Kleinzahler
• Saree Makdisi
• Benjamin Markovits
• Susan Pedersen
• Christopher Reid
• Steven Shapin
• Theo Tait
• Christopher Tayler
• Helen Vendler

Contents

• Neal Ascherson

  • The Broken Boy by Patrick Cockburn

• Letters
  John Palatella, Menachem Kellner, Geoffrey Chandler, Humphrey Cooper George Amory, Robert Kroninger, Edward Luttwak, Derek Robinson, Richard Morris, Simon Skinner

• August Kleinzahler
  Poem: ‘Over Gower Street’

• Susan Pedersen

  • Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853-1907 by Nadja Durbach

• Helen Vendler

  • Dante in English edited by Eric Griffiths and Matthew Reynolds

• Saree Makdisi
  Closed off, Walled in: the withdrawal from Gaza

• Christopher Reid
  Two Poems

• Sheila Fitzpatrick

  • The Soviet Century by Moshe Lewin, edited by Gregory Elliott

• R.W. Johnson

  • The Guy Liddell Diaries. Vol. I: 1939-42 edited by Nigel West

• Christopher Tayler

  • Somerset Maugham: A Life by Jeffrey Meyers

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Evolution versus Metamorphosis

• Elizabeth Cook

  • The Poems and Plays of Isaac Rosenberg edited by Vivien Noakes

• Theo Tait

  • Arthur & George by Julian Barnes

• Dinah Birch

  • Hide-and-Seek with Angels: A Life of J.M. Barrie by Lisa Chaney

• Peter Campbell
  In Auvergne: on sketching out of doors

• James Hamilton-Paterson

  • The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule by Joanna Kavenna
  • The Idea of North by Peter Davidson

• Steven Shapin

  • Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth by Andrew Smith

• Andy Beckett

  • Rip It Up and Start Again: Post-Punk 1978-84 by Simon Reynolds

• Benjamin Markovits
  Diary: Austin weird