Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• David Abulafia
• John Burnside
• Greg Dening
• Michael Dobson
• Margaret Anne Doody
• Eric Fassin
• Conor Gearty
• Henry Gee
• Ian Gilmour
• Gerald Hammond
• Eric Hobsbawm
• Michael Hofmann
• Frank Kermode
• Mark Kishlansky
• David Miller
• Ray Monk
• Adam Phillips
• Donald Sassoon
• Simon Schaffer
• Helen Vendler
• Margaret Visser

Contents

• Eric Hobsbawm

  • A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes

• Letters
  George Walden, John Mullan, Hazhir Teimourian, Ira Katznelson, Marion Glastonbury, Basil Davidson, Aidan Foster-Carter

• Michael Hofmann

  • The End of the Story by Lydia Davis
  • Break it Down by Lydia Davis

• Adam Phillips

  • Asylum by Patrick McGrath

• Helen Vendler

  • Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-17 by T.S. Eliot, edited by Christopher Ricks

• Frank Kermode

  • Omens of the Millennium by Harold Bloom

• Simon Schaffer

  • Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time by Dava Sobel

• Greg Dening

  • Far-Fetched Facts: The Literature of Travel and the Idea of the South Seas by Neil Rennie

• Margaret Anne Doody

  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Romance Writings edited by Isobel Grundy

• Ian Gilmour

  • A History of Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths by Karen Armstrong
  • Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years by Israel Shahak
  • City of the Great King: Jerusalem from David to the Present edited by Nitza Rosovsky
  • Jerusalem in the 20th Century by Martin Gilbert
  • Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict by Norman Finkelstein
  • To Rule Jerusalem by Roger Friedland and Richard Hecht

• David Abulafia

  • The Origins of the Inquisition in 15th-Century Spain by Benzion Netanyahu

• Gerald Hammond

  • Thomas Cranmer: A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch

• Mark Kishlansky

  • Liberty against the Law: Some 17th-Century Controversies by Christopher Hill
  • The Rise and Fall of Revolutionary England: An Essay on the Fabrication of 17th-Century History by Alastair MacLaclan

• Michael Dobson

  • Reading Shakespeare Historically by Lisa Jardine
  • Purpose of Playing: Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of the Elizabethan Theatre by Louis Montrose
  • Shakespeare from the Margins: Language, Culture, Context by Patricia Parker
  • Impersonations: Gender and Performance in Shakespear’s England by Stephen Orgel

• Margaret Visser

  • The Land of Hunger by Piero Camporesi, translated by Tania Croft-Murray and Claire Foley
  • Exotic Brew: The Art of Living in the Age of Enlightenment by Piero Camporesi, translated by Christopher Woodall
  • The Magic Harvest: Food, Folklore and Society by Piero Camporesi, translated by Joan Krakover Hall

• Donald Sassoon

  • Possible Dreams: A Personal History of the British Christian Socialists by Chris Bryant

• John Burnside
  Poem: ‘Shiochie’s Hill, Dunkeld’

• Ray Monk

  • Wittgenstein’s Place in 20th-Century Analytic Philosophy by P.M.S. Hacker
  • Wittgenstein: Mind and Will, Vol. IV of an Analytical Commentary on the ‘Philosophical Investigations’ by P.M.S. Hacker

• Eric Fassin

  • Adventures on the Freedom Road: The French Intellectuals in the 20th Century by Bernard-Henri Lévy, translated by Richard Veasey
  • The Imaginary Jew by Alain Finkielkraut, translated by Kevin O’Neill and David Suchoff
  • The Defeat of the Mind by Alain Finkielkraut, translated by Judith Friedlander

• David Miller

  • Self-Ownership, Freedom and Equality by G.A. Cohen

• Henry Gee

  • African Exodus: The Origins of Modern Humanity by Chris Stringer and Robin McKie
  • Humans before Humanity by Robert Foley
  • The Day before Yesterday: Five Million Years of Human History by Colin Tudge
  • The Wisdom of Bones: In Search of Human Origins by Alan Walker and Pat Shipman
  • The Neanderthal Enigma: Solving the Mystery of Modern Human Origins by James Shreeve

• Conor Gearty
  Diary