Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Robert Ackerman
• Terry Castle
• Basil Davidson
• Jenny Diski
• Ian Gilmour
• Adam Gopnik
• David Halperin
• Gerald Hammond
• W.V. Harris
• Michael Hofmann
• Stephen Howe
• Zachary Leader
• Douglas Oliver
• David Runciman
• Lorna Scott Fox
• Tom Shippey
• George Steiner
• David Wootton

Contents

• Terry Castle

  • From India to the Planet Mars: A Case of Multiple Personality with Imaginary Languages by Théodore Flournoy, edited by Sonu Shamdasani

• Letters
  David Kitson, Jane Howard, Theodore Draper, Eric Foner, Tony Inglis, Montagu Bream, Barra O’Seághdha, Anthony Bilmes, David Edgerton, Petra Schürenhöfer, Jim Haun, Franz Potyka, John Cochrane

• Douglas Oliver
  Poem: ‘A Little Night’

• Adam Gopnik

  • The Scandal of Pleasure by Wendy Steiner

• Michael Hofmann

  • Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew by John Felstiner
  • Breathturn by Paul Celan, translated by Pierre Joris

• Gerald Hammond

  • The Five Books of Moses translated by Everett Fox

• George Steiner

  • The Modern Epic: The World System from Goethe to García Márquez by Franco Moretti, translated by Quentin Hoare

• Jenny Diski

  • Below the Parapet: The Biography of Denis Thatcher by Carol Thatcher

• David Runciman

  • The Boundaries of the State in Modern Britain edited by S.J.D. Green and R.C. Whiting

• Stephen Howe

  • The ‘New Statesman’: Portrait of a Political Weekly, 1913-31 by Adrian Smith

• Basil Davidson

  • Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution after the Cold War by Susan Woodward

• W.V. Harris

  • Remus: A Roman Myth by T.P. Wiseman
  • The Beginnings of Rome: Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (c.1000-246 BC) by T.J. Cornell

• David Halperin

  • Homos by Leo Bersani

• Zachary Leader

  • Eastern Sun, Winter Moon by Gary Paulsen
  • The Attic: Memoir of a Chinese Landlord’s Son by Guanlong Cao, translated by Guanlong Cao and Nancy Moskin

• Lorna Scott Fox

  • The Law of Enclosures by Dale Peck

• Robert Ackerman

  • After Tylor: British Social Anthropology 1888-1951 by George Stocking

• David Wootton

  • Astrology and the 17th-Century Mind: William Lilly and the Language of the Stars by Ann Geneva

• Ian Gilmour
  Diary

• Tom Shippey

  • Beyond Uhura: ‘Star Trek’ and Other Memories by Nichelle Nichols
  • I Am Spock by Leonard Nimoy
  • Science Fiction Audiences: Watching ‘Doctor Who’ and ‘Star Trek’ by Henry Jenkins and John Tulloch
  • ‘Star Trek’: Deep Space Nine by Mark Altman, Rob Davis and Tony Pallot