Cover: Beken family of Cowes

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Perry Anderson
• Mary Beard
• Tom Carver
• Alexander Cockburn
• D.J. Enright
• J. Arch Getty
• Jeremy Harding
• Philip Horne
• Frank Kermode
• John Lanchester
• Hyam Maccoby
• Colin McGinn
• Patrick Parrinder
• Craig Raine
• Mark Ridley
• Avi Shlaim

Contents

• Perry Anderson

  • The Identity of France. Vol. II: People and Production by Fernand Braudel, translated by Sian Reynolds

• Letters
  Lawrence Goldman, Norman Langford, Lawrence Beyer, A.N. Vakil, Graham Chainey, Marilyn Rice

• Craig Raine
  Poem: ‘Muse’

• D.J. Enright

  • Goethe: The Poet and the Age. Vol. I: The Poetry of Desire, 1749-1790 by Nicholas Boyle

• Frank Kermode

  • The Infection of Thomas De Quincey: A Psychopathology of Imperialism by John Barrell

• Alexander Cockburn
  Human Rights and Wrongs

• Avi Shlaim

  • Israel’s Secret Wars: The Untold History of Israeli Intelligence by Ian Black and Benny Morris

• Jeremy Harding

  • Fishing in Africa: A Guide to War and Corruption by Andrew Buckoke
  • Africa: Dispatches From a Fragile Continent by Blaine Harden
  • The Soccer War by Ryszard Kapuściński, translated by William Brand

• J. Arch Getty

  • Stalin’s Apologist. Walter Duranty: The ‘New York Times’ Man in Moscow by S.J. Taylor

• Mary Beard

  • Changes in the Roman Empire: Essays in the Ordinary by Ramsay MacMullen

• Hyam Maccoby

  • Jewish Law from Jesus to the Mishnah: Five Studies by E.P. Sanders
  • Paul the Convert: The Apostolate and Apostasy of Saul the Pharisee by Alan Segal

• Mark Ridley

  • The Wisdom of the Genes by Christopher Wills

• Colin McGinn

  • Mind and Cognition: A Reader edited by William Lycan
  • Acts of Meaning by Jerome Bruner
  • Modelling the mind edited by K.A. Mohyeldin Said

• Patrick Parrinder

  • Mr Wroe’s Virgins by Jane Rogers
  • The Side of the Moon by Amanda Prantera

• John Lanchester

  • The Redundancy of Courage by Timothy Mo

• Tom Carver
  Zakho Diary

• Philip Horne

  • The Grimace by Nicholas Salaman
  • Playing the game by Ian Buruma
  • The Music of Chance by Paul Auster