SUMMER DOUBLE ISSUE

The rise of Git Lit: Piers Paul Read declares the Bridget Jones era over

Do your duty, Mr Gove: Chris Woodhead

Is Geoffrey Hill our greatest living poet?

Conrad Black: Nightmare on Wall Street

Melanie Phillips / Walter Laqueur / William Kristol / Tim Montgomerie / Daisy Waugh / Gisela Stuart / Noel Malcolm / Katherine Bergen / Allan Massie /  Ben Judah / Paula Rego / Caroline Moore / Louis Amis / Justin Marozzi / Lionel Shriver / Nigel Biggar / Tim Fuller  

Choppy waters for Cameron and Clegg: Daniel Johnson, Nick Cohen and John Bolton ask if the coalition can stay afloat...

...Plus: Douglas Murray, Tim Congdon, Daisy Waugh; and The Mole digs up the lobby

Craig Raine: I've written a novel at last

Tibor Fischer baits Christopher Hitchens

Clive James: A poem for Peter Porter

Paul Johnson / Norman Stone / Jeremy Black / Francisco Ayala / Anthony Thwaite / B.H. Fraser / Lionel Shriver / Hamish Robinson / Gwyn Prins / Jonathan Foreman / Minette Marrin / Michael Burleigh / Jessica Duchen / John Haldane / Jamie Whyte

The Man Delusion: Melanie Phillips says we have lost touch with God — and reason 

Special Issue: Islam and the West

Nick Cohen: Our dishonest election

Ben Judah: Dodging bullets in Bishkek

Lionel Shriver, Karol Sikora: What price a life?

Edward Norman / Ruth Dudley Edwards / David Womersley / Anthony Brenton / Julie Bindel / Peter Whittle / Daisy Waugh / Jeremy Jennings / Michael Burleigh / Fiona Pitt-Kethley / Eric Ormsby / Minette Marrin / Dominic Lawson / Mara Delius

The Toepfer Files: A Nazi Shadow over Oxford — Special Investigation by Michael Pinto-Duschinsky

John Stein: Bring back Susan Greenfield

Brown's last stand, Cameron's first crisis: Andrew Rawnsley, Anthony Howard, Nick Cohen, Douglas Murray on the election

Overrated Schwarzenegger: He won't be back

Waugh on WAGs: Daisy tackles off-field antics

David Pryce-Jones / Karen Horn / Robert Fox / Lionel Shriver / Michael Nazir-Ali / Allan Massie / Julia Pettengill / David Womersley / Ben Judah / Jessica Duchen / Mara Delius / Peter Stanford / Eric Ormsby / William Rubinstein / Robin Shepherd