Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Bayley
• Dinah Birch
• Richard Fortey
• Michael Gilsenan
• Ian Hamilton
• Jose Harris
• Tobias Jones
• Philip Kitcher
• Ross McKibbin
• Christopher Middleton
• Jonathan Parry
• Alan Ryan
• Andrew Saint
• Elaine Showalter
• Charles Simic
• Iain Sinclair
• Sandy Steele
• Andrew Sugden
• Colm Tóibín

Contents

• Ross McKibbin
  Mass-Observation in the Mall

• Letters
  Anthony Grey, Peter Unger, Edward Said, Gerard Duveen, Malcolm Povey

• Iain Sinclair
  Mandelson’s Pleasure Dome

• Andrew Saint

  • Corbusier’s Formative Years by H. Allen Brooks

• Alan Ryan

  • The Solitary Self: Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Exile and Adversity by Maurice Cranston

• Michael Gilsenan

  • Master and Disciple: The Cultural Foundations of Moroccan Authoritarianism by Abdellah Hammoudi

• Charles Simic
  Three Poems

• Jose Harris

  • Pluralism and the Personality of the State by David Runciman

• Jonathan Parry

  • Lord Melbourne 1779-1848 by L.G. Mitchell

• Colm Tóibín

  • Roger Casement’s Diaries. 1910: The Black and the White edited by Roger Sawyer
  • The Amazon Journal of Roger Casement edited by Angus Mitchell

• John Bayley

  • Playing the Game: A Biography of Sir Henry Newbolt by Susan Chitty

• Ian Hamilton

  • Cyril Connolly: A Life by Jeremy Lewis

• Tobias Jones

  • Grace Notes by Bernard Mac Laverty

• Elaine Showalter

  • Impossible Saints by Michèle Roberts

• Dinah Birch

  • Elizabeth Gaskell: The Early Years by John Chapple

• Christopher Middleton
  Poem: ‘Dead Button: China Command Aircrew’

• Philip Kitcher

  • This is Biology by Ernst Mayr

• Richard Fortey

  • Volcanoes: Crucibles of Change by Richard Fisher, Grant Heiken and Jeffrey Hulen

• Sandy Steele
  Diary

• Andrew Sugden

  • Snakes: The Evolution of Mystery in Nature by Harry Greene