CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Andy Beckett
• David Bromwich
• M.F. Burnyeat
• Amit Chaudhuri
• P.N. Furbank
• Terence Hawkes
• R.W. Johnson
• Justine Jordan
• Rebecca Mead
• Ashis Nandy
• Peter Porter
• John Redmond
• Andrew Saint
• Simon Schaffer
• Stephen Smith
• Anna Vaux
• Catherine Wilson

Contents

• M.F. Burnyeat
  Art and Mimesis in Plato’s ‘Republic’ on Plato

• Letters
  Neil Forster, Christopher Hitchens, Robert Zich, Andrew Gow, Richard Davies, Henrik Rosenmeier, Andrew Rawlinson, Keith Flett

• David Bromwich

  • Robert Southey: A Life by Mark Storey

• R.W. Johnson

  • Classes and Cultures: England 1918-51 by Ross McKibbin

• Ashis Nandy

  • Nehru: A Tryst with Destiny by Stanley Wolpert

• Amit Chaudhuri

  • Love and Longing in Bombay by Vikram Chandra

• Andrew Saint

  • Cities for a Small Planet by Richard Rogers

• Catherine Wilson

  • The Ovary of Eve: Egg and Sperm and Preformation by Clara Pinto-Correia

• Simon Schaffer

  • The Enlightenment of Joseph Priestley: A Study of His Life and Work from 1733 to 1773 by Robert Schofield

• Terence Hawkes

  • The Fury of Men’s Gullets: Ben Jonson and the Digestive Canal by Bruce Thomas Boehrer

• Rebecca Mead

  • Wasted: A Memoir of anorexia and Bulimia by Marya Hornbacher

• Anna Vaux

  • Bad Mothers: The Politics of Blame in 20th-Century America edited by Molly Ladd-Taylor and Lauri Umansky
  • Madonna and Child: Towards a New Politics of Motherhood by Melissa Benn

• Justine Jordan

  • Little Thing by Susan Wicks

• John Redmond

  • One Train by Kenneth Koch
  • A World where News Travelled slowly by Lavinia Greenlaw
  • A Painted Field by Robin Robertson

• P.N. Furbank

  • Lord Berners: The Last Eccentric by Mark Amory

• Stephen Smith
  Diary in Medellín

• Andy Beckett

  • Guide by Dennis Cooper

• Peter Porter
  Poem: ‘Lament Addressed to the People’