Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Shannon Borg
• Julian Critchley
• Eric Foner
• Paul Foot
• Mark Harris
• Terence Hawkes
• Nicholas Hiley
• Richard Jenkyns
• Tobias Jones
• Armand Marie Leroi
• Donald MacKenzie
• Tom Paulin
• Dale Peck
• Ian Sansom
• Michael Stewart
• E.S. Turner
• Gaby Wood
• Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Contents

• Armand Marie Leroi

  • Buffon by Jacques Roger
  • The Platypus and the Mermaid and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination by Harriet Ritvo

• Letters
  David Craig, Graham Nelson, V.K. Mina, Luigi Romeo, Inigo Thomas, Katharine Weber, John Coombes, Margaret McHugh, Jeremy Bernstein

• Gaby Wood
  The Smallest of All Persons Mentioned in the Records of Littleness

• Terence Hawkes

  • Issues of Death: Mortality and Identity in English Renaissance Tragedy by Michael Neill

• Michael Stewart

  • Balkan Justice: The Story behind the First International War Crimes Trial since Nuremberg by Michael Scharf
  • The Tenth Circle of Hell: A Memoir of Life in the Death Camps of Bosnia by Rezak Hukanovic
  • Burn This House: The Making and Unmaking of Yugoslavia edited by Jasminka Udovicki and James Ridgeway
  • A Safe Area: Srebrenica, Europe’s Worst Massacre since the Second World War by David Rohde
  • Triumph of the Lack of Will: International Diplomacy and the Yugoslav War by James Gow

• Shannon Borg
  Poem: ‘Upon Hearing a Poem Read over the Phone’

• Donald MacKenzie

  • Engineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815 by Ken Alder

• Eric Foner

  • A History of the American People by Paul Johnson

• Ruth Bernard Yeazell

  • Polygamous Families in Contemporary Society by Irwin Altman and Joseph Ginat

• Dale Peck

  • Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut

• Tobias Jones

  • Hand To Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure by Paul Auster

• Ian Sansom

  • The Bounty by Derek Walcott

• Tom Paulin
  Poem: ‘The Unholy One?’

• Richard Jenkyns

  • Abide with Me: The World of Victorian Hymns by Ian Bradley
  • The English Hymn: A Critical and Historical Study by J.R. Watson

• E.S. Turner

  • The House of Lords: From Saxon Wargods to a Modern Senate by John Wells

• Julian Critchley

  • Dear Bill: Bill Deedes Reports by W.F. Deedes

• Nicholas Hiley

  • New cloak, Old dagger: How Britain’s Spies Came in from the Cold by Michael Smith
  • Intelligence Power in Peace and War by Michael Herman
  • UK Eyes Alpha by Mark Urban

• Mark Harris

  • Albert Einstein by Albrecht Fölsing, translated by Ewald Osers
  • Einstein: A Life by Denis Brian

• Paul Foot
  Diary