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Issue 10: The Russian Restoration

Garry Kasparov critiques Putin’s ‘sovereign democracy’

An interview with Akhmed Zakayev

Sergei Roy reconsiders the February Revolution

Simon Sebag-Montefiore on Lenin’s heir

New music from Alexander Prior

New poetry from Robert Conquest and Carol Rumens

Issue 9: Revisiting Spain

Christopher Hitchens reviews Ann Coulter’s Godless

Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s ‘Portrait of a Heroine as a Young Woman’

Stephen Hart celebrates the poetry of César Vallejo

Susan Kramer MP on aid, trade and globalisation

New short fiction from David Constantine

New poetry from John Kinsella and Michael Hamburger

Issue 8: On Colour

Harold Bloom reviews Philip Roth’s Everyman
George Steiner on the Idea of Europe
Jeremy Thorpe celebrates the centenary of a Liberal landslide
Terry Eagleton explores a history of anarchism
New short fiction from John Burnside
New poetry from Owen Sheers and Fiona Sampson

Issue 7: China & the Chinese diaspora

Nobel Laureate Gao Xingjian on the author as émigré
Xinran and Liu Xiaobo report from the mainland
Slavoj Žižek surveys the Paris riots
New short fiction from Yiyun Li
New poetry from Chinua Achebe, Yang Lian and Peter Porter
Book reviews from Francis Wheen and George Szirtes

Issue 6: Party Conference Season

Terry Eagleton on terror and the sacred
Wole Soyinka laments Sharia in Nigeria
Roy Hattersley reviews the Edwardian Liberals
Matthew Parris: Three Rivers
New fiction from Michel Faber
Book reviews from Helen Oyeyemi and Chris Huhne

Issue 5: Space & Science

Martin Rees marks Einstein's annus mirabilis
Slavoj Žižekon the ethics of biogenetics
Andrea Dworkin: Abu Ghraib and pornography
Luqman Ali on Islam and the originative imagination
New poetry from Simon Armitage and Sophie Hannah
New music from Michael Finnissy

Issue 4: General Election Special

The Politerati (AS Byatt, Will Self and Richard Dawkins, among others)
Party Pieces from MPs Michael Gove, Ming Campbell & Glenda Jackson
Elaine Showalter on the struggles of Susan Sontag
Peter Hitchens: The Abolition of Liberty
New poetry from Ariel Dorfman and Al Alvarez
Book reviews from Germaine Greer and Terry Eagleton

Issue 3: The Forgotten Continent

Richard Gott on a Latin American indigenous renaissance
Johann Hari examines the dark face of John Paul's Papacy
Alex Bellos: Saving the Nation
Vincent Cable liberates the market
In conversation with Theodore Zeldin
New poetry from Dannie Abse and Neil Curry

Issue 2: The Second Coming

Noam Chomsky responds to Paul Berman
Robert B. Reich & David Aaronovitch on the crisis of American liberalism
Terry Eagleton celebrates the late Jacques Derrida
AC Grayling: Against Monogamy
Claire Fox on the tyranny of instrumentalism
New poetry from Clive James

Issue 1: A Liberal Alternative?

New short fiction from Hanif Kureishi and Sophie Dahl
Paul Berman offers a critique of Noam Chomsky
Daniel Barenboim and the West-East Divan
Shami Chakrabarti: Nothing to Fear?
Ziauddin Sardar reviews Bernard-Henri Lévy
Percy Shelley’s ‘Defence of Poetry’ finally appears in The Liberal