Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Eleanor Birne
• David Bromwich
• Ciaran Carson
• Philip Connors
• Jenny Diski
• Jeremy Harding
• Isabel Hilton
• Richard Hornsey
• Fredric Jameson
• Thomas Jones
• Frank Kermode
• August Kleinzahler
• Thomas Laqueur
• Ross McKibbin
• Michael Newton
• Lawrence Rosen
• John Sturrock
• John Hartley Williams
• Patrick Wright

Contents

• Ross McKibbin
  Sleazy, Humiliated, Despised: Can Labour survive Blair?

• Letters
  Eugene Goodheart, Sam Hood, Allan Tulchin, Simon Haywood, Ivan Roots, Brian Smith, Arthur Havisham, Richard Koss, Roddy Graham, C.D. Rose, Greg Dixon, Christopher Stephens

• John Hartley Williams
  Two Poems

• Fredric Jameson

  • The Parallax View by Slavoj Žižek

• Michael Newton

  • Ava Gardner by Lee Server

• David Bromwich

  • ‘Let Us Now Praise Famous Men’, ‘A Death in the Family’, Shorter Fiction by James Agee
  • Film Writing and Selected Journalism by James Agee
  • Brooklyn Is by James Agee

• John Sturrock

  • Bouvard and Pecuchet by Gustave Flaubert, translated by Mark Polizzotti
  • Flaubert: A Life by Frederick Brown

• Ciaran Carson
  Two Poems

• Frank Kermode

  • In the Blood: A Memoir of My Childhood by Andrew Motion

• Patrick Wright

  • Great British Bus Journeys: Travels through Unfamous Places by David McKie

• Jeremy Harding
  Short Cuts: Blair’s comedy turns

• Jenny Diski

  • An Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History’s Greatest Traveller by Jason Roberts

• Isabel Hilton

  • Lhasa: Streets with Memories by Robert Barnett

• Eleanor Birne
  At the Royal Scottish Academy: Ron Mueck

• Lawrence Rosen

  • On the Road to Kandahar: Travels through Conflict in the Islamic World by Jason Burke

• Thomas Jones

  • Terrorist by John Updike

• Philip Connors

  • White Guys by Anthony Giardina

• Richard Hornsey

  • Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis 1918-57 by Matt Houlbrook

• August Kleinzahler
  Poem: ‘A History of Western Music: Chapter 49 (McPhee’s Gamelan)’

• Thomas Laqueur
  Diary: My Dead Fathers