Cover: Cressida Bell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Barrell
• Mary Beard
• Julian Bell
• Alan Bennett
• Mark Ford
• Katrina Forrester
• Deborah Friedell
• Alan Hollinghurst
• Helena Kennedy
• Thomas Keymer
• John Lanchester
• James Meek
• Paul Myerscough
• Alexander Nagel
• Philippe Sands
• Theo Tait
• Phil Withington

Contents

• John Lanchester
  Let’s call it failure

• Letters

• James Meek

  • Breaking Bad: Complete Seasons 1-4 produced by Vince Gilligan

• Deborah Friedell
  In a Box

• Theo Tait

  • The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers

• Alan Hollinghurst

  • The Journals and Diaries of E.M. Forster Volumes I-III edited by Philip Gardner

• Phil Withington

  • Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes, edited by Noel Malcolm

• John Barrell

  • Constable, Gainsborough, Turner and the Making of Landscape

• Philippe Sands and Helena Kennedy
  In Defence of Rights

• Julian Bell
  At the National Gallery

• Katrina Forrester

  • Secret Manoeuvres in the Dark: Corporate and Police Spying on Activists by Eveline Lubbers

• Paul Myerscough
  Short Cuts

• Mary Beard

  • Shopping in Ancient Rome: The Retail Trade in the Late Republic and the Principate by Claire Holleran

• Alexander Nagel

  • Bernini: His Life and His Rome by Franco Mormando

• Thomas Keymer

  • A Political Biography of Eliza Haywood by Kathryn King

• Mark Ford
  Poem: ‘Under the Lime Trees’

• Alan Bennett
  Diary: 2012