Cover: Tim O’Sullivan

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Peter Burke
• Susanne Chowdhury
• Adrian Desmond
• Jasper Griffin
• Jeremy Harding
• D.A.N. Jones
• John Lanchester
• Brad Leithauser
• Jerome McGann
• Jane Miller
• Anthony Pagden
• W.G. Runciman
• John Sturrock
• John Sutherland
• Alex Zwerdling

Contents

• W.G. Runciman

  • The Mexican Revolution. Vol. I: Porfirians, Liberals and Revolutionaries by Alan Knight
  • The Mexican Revolution. Vol. II: Counter-Revolution and Reconstruction by Alan Knight
  • Mexico: Inside the Volcano by Alan Riding

• Letters
  Ray Honeyford, Oliver Owen, Conway Xavier, Nigel Smith, Michael Hulse, Geoffrey Cuming, Editor, ‘London Review’, Bruno Nightingale

• Jerome McGann

  • In the American Tree: Language, Poetry, Realism by Ron Silliman
  • ‘Language’ Poetries: An Anthology by Douglas Messerli

• Alex Zwerdling

  • The Failure of Theory: Essays on Criticism and Contemporary Theory by Patrick Parrinder

• John Lanchester

  • Criticism in Society by Imre Salusinszky
  • Mensonge by Malcolm Bradbury

• John Sturrock

  • Death and the Labyrinth: The World of Raymond Roussel by Michel Foucault, translated by Charles Ruas
  • Raymond Roussel: Life, Death and Works. Essays and stories by various hands

• Adrian Desmond

  • The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. Vol. II: 1837-1843 edited by Frederick Burkhardt and Sydney Smith
  • The Works of Charles Darwin edited by Paul Barrett and R.B. Freeman
  • The Darwinian Heritage edited by David Kohn
  • Western Science in the Arab World: The Impact of Darwinism, 1860-1930 by Adel Ziadat
  • Theories of Human Evolution: A Century of Debate 1844-1944 by Peter Bowler
  • Controversy in Victorian Geology: The Cambrian-Silurian Dispute by James Secord
  • Darwin’s Metaphor: Nature’s Place in Victorian Culture by Robert Young

• Jasper Griffin

  • A History of Private Life. Vol. I: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium edited by Paul Veyne
  • The Roman World edited by John Wacher
  • The Roman Empire: Economy, Society and Culture edited by Peter Garnsey and Richard Saller
  • Sexual Life in Ancient Egypt by Lisa Manniche

• Anthony Pagden

  • Utopia and Anti-Utopia in Modern Times by Krishan Kumar
  • Lectures on Ideology and Utopia by Paul Ricoeur, edited by George Taylor
  • Visions of Harmony: A Study in 19th-Century Millenarianism by Anne Taylor

• Peter Burke

  • Patronage, Art and Society in Renaissance Italy edited by F.W. Kent and Patricia Simons
  • Pienza: The Creation of a Renaissance City by Charles Mack
  • Piety and Patronage in Renaissance Venice: Bellini, Titian and the Franciscans by Rona Goffen
  • Venetian Humanism in an Age of Patrician Dominance by Margaret King
  • The Venetian Patriciate: Reality versus Myth by Donald Queller
  • Tradesman and Traders: The World of the Guilds in Venice and Europe, c.1250-c.1650 by Richard MacKenney
  • Florence, Rome and the Origins of the Renaissance by George Holmes
  • From Humanism to the Humanities: Education and the Liberal Arts in 15th and 6th-Century Europe by Anthony Grafton and Lisa Jardine
  • Renaissance and Revolt: Essays in the Intellectual and Social History of Early Modern France by J.H.M. Salmon

• Jeremy Harding
  Eritrean Revolution

• Susanne Chowdhury
  Poem: ‘Disaster Area’

• Brad Leithauser

  • Selected Poems by Molly Holden
  • The Player Queen’s Wife by Oliver Reynolds
  • The Consuming Myth: The Work of James Merrill by Stephen Yenser

• D.A.N. Jones

  • Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
  • Familiar Wars by Julietta Harvey
  • Lenin: The Novel by Alan Brien

• Jane Miller
  Diary

• John Sutherland

  • Dickens’s Working Notes for his Novels edited by Harry Stone