Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Marilyn Butler
• Ian Gilmour
• Jeremy Harding
• Mary Hawthorne
• Andreas Huyssen
• Robert Irwin
• Claudia Johnson
• Frank Kermode
• John Leslie
• Leslie Mitchell
• Douglas Oliver
• Michael Rogin
• Malise Ruthven
• Janette Turner Hospital
• Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Contents

• Jeremy Harding
  The Mercenary Business

• Letters
  George Barnard, Lawrence Goldman, Philip Corrigan, Robert Colls, Ian MacKillop, Phil Edwards, Keith Flett, Robert Trueblood, John Constable, Graham Roe, Frederick Barker, Richard Webster, Tom Paulin, R.H. Marshall, Brian Winston, William Flesch, Nick Groom, Dan Hughes, Michael Jenkins, Michael Schmidt

• Ruth Bernard Yeazell

  • Queen Victoria’s Secrets by Adrienne Munich

• Douglas Oliver
  Poem: ‘Forearms’

• Ian Gilmour

  • The Younger Pitt: The Consuming Struggle by John Ehrman

• Leslie Mitchell

  • John Wilkes by Peter D.G. Thomas

• Frank Kermode

  • The True Story of the Novel by Margaret Anne Doody

• Marilyn Butler

  • Essays in Appreciation by Christopher Ricks

• Andreas Huyssen

  • No Passion Spent by George Steiner

• John Leslie

  • The Nature of Space and Time by Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose

• Claudia Johnson

  • Chuck Jones: A Flurry of Drawings by Hugh Kenner

• Michael Rogin

  • Washington Babylon by Alexander Cockburn and Ken Silverstein

• Janette Turner Hospital

  • Talking to the Dead by Helen Dunmore

• Robert Irwin

  • The Middle East: 2000 Years of History from the Birth of Christianity to the Present Day by Bernard Lewis

• Mary Hawthorne
  Diary

• Malise Ruthven

  • Lords of the Lebanese Marches: Violence and Narrative in an Arab Society by Michael Gilsenan
  • The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World edited by John L. Esposito
  • Unfolding Islam by P.J. Stewart
  • Islam and the Myth of Confrontation: Religion and Politics in the Middle East by Fred Halliday