Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Uri Avnery
• Shadi Bartsch
• Julian Bell
• David A. Bell
• Anne Carson
• Patrick Cockburn
• Mike Davis
• Deborah Friedell
• Nicholas Guyatt
• Thomas Jones
• John Lanchester
• Tim Lewens
• Megan Marshall
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Hugh Pennington
• Michael Wood
• Slavoj Žižek

Contents

• Shadi Bartsch

  • Death in Ancient Rome by Catharine Edwards
  • The Death of Socrates: Hero, Villain, Chatterbox, Saint by Emily Wilson

• Letters
  Kenneth Anderson, Robert Chandler, Tony Gross, Alan Harris, Markie Robson-Scott, Jerry Coyne and Philip Kitcher, Daniel Dennett, Steven Rose, Colin Tudge, Kit Evans, Rory Finnin, Derek Robinson, Robin Chapman, Fiona Johnston, Thomas Venning

• Slavoj Žižek
  Resistance Is Surrender: What to Do about Capitalism

• Nicholas Guyatt

  • American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America by Chris Hedges

• Uri Avnery
  After Rabin: Remembering the Ultimate Sabra

• Thomas Jones

  • The Ghost by Robert Harris

• David A. Bell

  • Inventing Human Rights: A History by Lynn Hunt

• Megan Marshall

  • Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life: The Public Years by Charles Capper

• John Lanchester
  Short Cuts: Decoding Hu Jintao

• Tim Lewens

  • Max Perutz and the Secret of Life by Georgina Ferry

• Hugh Pennington

  • Investigation into Outbreaks of ‘Clostridium difficile’ at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
  • Investigation into Outbreaks of ‘Clostridium difficile’ at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust

• Deborah Friedell

  • Bernard Malamud: A Writer’s Life by Philip Davis

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies

  • Eastern Promises directed by David Cronenberg

• Andrew O’Hagan

  • The Mitfords: Letters between Six Sisters edited by Charlotte Mosley

• Julian Bell
  At Tate Britain: John Everett Millais

• Anne Carson
  Poem: ‘‘Deer (not a play)’’

• Patrick Cockburn
  Will Turkey Invade?: with the Kurds

• Mike Davis
  Diary: California Burns