CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Andy Beckett
• Linda Colley
• Susan Eilenberg
• Nuruddin Farah
• Ian Gilmour
• Michael Gilsenan
• Simon Goldhill
• Gerald Hammond
• Robert Irwin
• Richard Jenkyns
• John Kinsella
• Peter Lipton
• Ross McKibbin
• Ben Pimlott
• Lorna Sage
• Edmund White
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Ross McKibbin
  Third Way, Old Hat: Amnesia at the Top

• Letters
  Herman Reichenbach, Andrew Hillier, Eleanor Fishman, Thomas Laqueur, Michael Ward

• Ben Pimlott

  • Crosland’s Future: Opportunity and Outcome by David Reisman

• Susan Eilenberg

  • Wordsworth and the Victorians by Stephen Gill
  • The Five-Book Prelude by William Wordsworth, edited by Duncan Wu

• Linda Colley

  • The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Victorian England by Amanda Vickery

• Ian Gilmour

  • Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman
  • Aristocratic Women and Political Society in Victorian Britain by K.D. Reynolds
  • Lady Byron and Earl Shilton by David Herbert

• Lorna Sage

  • All around Atlantis by Deborah Eisenberg

• Michael Wood

  • Cuba Libre by Elmore Leonard
  • Havana Dreams by Wendy Gimbel

• Edmund White

  • Pleasured by Philip Hensher

• Nuruddin Farah
  Country Cousins writes about the travails of Mogadishu

• Michael Gilsenan

  • Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples by V.S. Naipaul

• Richard Jenkyns

  • Lucretius: ‘On the Nature of the Universe’ translated by Ronald Melville

• Simon Goldhill

  • Magic in the Ancient World by Fritz Graf

• John Kinsella
  Poem: ‘Rich Soil, the Mechanism: A Farm Is Sold’

• Robert Irwin

  • Kahlil Gibran: Man and Poet by Suheil Bushrui and Joe Jenkins
  • Prophet: The Life and Times of Kahlil Gibran by Robin Waterfield

• Andy Beckett

  • Scepticism Inc. by Bo Fowler

• Peter Lipton

  • How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organised Criticality by Per Bak

• Gerald Hammond
  Diary on Taiwan and China