Cover: Alice Spawls

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Greg Afinogenov
• Tariq Ali
• Andrew Bacevich
• Robert Crawford
• Richard J. Evans
• Hal Foster
• Colin Kidd
• Christian Lorentzen
• Susan McKay
• Walter Benn Michaels
• Pankaj Mishra
• Robin Robertson
• Michael Rossi
• Stephen W. Smith
• Rebecca Solnit
• Andrew Sugden
• Keith Thomas
• Amanda Vickery

Contents

• Stephen W. Smith
  In Search of Monsters: What are they doing in Mali?

• Letters
  Duncan Money, Rob Stradling, Steven Wall, Nick Howard, Thomas Keymer, Benedict Birnberg, Jack Sturiano, Paul Brightwell, Mark Etherton, Eva Joyce

• Richard J. Evans

  • Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini’s Italy by Christopher Duggan
  • The Fascist Party and Popular Opinion in Mussolini’s Italy by Paul Corner

• Keith Thomas

  • The Oxford Francis Bacon Vol. I: Early Writings 1584-96 edited by Alan Stewart, with Harriet Knight

• Robin Robertson
  Two Poems

• Colin Kidd

  • Belfast 400: People, Place and History edited by S.J. Connolly
  • Ulster since 1600: Politics, Economy and Society edited by Liam Kennedy and Philip Ollerenshaw
  • The Plantation of Ulster: Ideology and Practice edited by Eamonn O Ciardha and Micheál O Siochrú
  • The End of Ulster Loyalism? by Peter Shirlow

• Hal Foster
  At MoMA: ‘Inventing Abstraction’

• Susan McKay
  At City Hall: Belfast Protests

• Greg Afinogenov

  • Alexander I: The Tsar Who Defeated Napoleon by Marie-Pierre Rey, translated by Susan Emanuel

• Andrew Bacevich

  • Hanoi’s War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam by Lien-Hang Nguyen

• Pankaj Mishra

  • The Blind Man’s Garden by Nadeem Aslam

• Tariq Ali
  Short Cuts

• Christian Lorentzen

  • Tenth of December by George Saunders

• Walter Benn Michaels

  • Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Karen Fields and Barbara Fields

• Michael Rossi

  • Born Together – Reared Apart: The Landmark Minnesota Twin Study by Nancy Segal

• Robert Crawford

  • New Selected Poems by Les Murray

• Amanda Vickery

  • Vauxhall Gardens: A History by Alan Borg and David Coke

• Andrew Sugden

  • The Life of a Leaf by Steven Vogel

• Rebecca Solnit
  Diary: Google Invades