Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Barrell
• John Burnside
• Peter Campbell
• Jerry Fodor
• Ian Hamilton
• Stephen Holmes
• Michael Ignatieff
• Justine Jordan
• John Mullan
• Charles van Onselen
• Christopher Prendergast
• E.S. Turner
• John Upton
• Tom Vanderbilt

Contents

• Jerry Fodor

  • Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson

• Letters
  Neil Forster, William Lamont, Tom Lansburg, Adrian Dannatt, Alan Benfield, L.J. Olivier, Alison Macleod, V.G. Kiernan, George Schlesinger, Nick Bozanic, Chase Madar, Michael and Denise Hope, Ross Pratt, Ian Wylie, Keith Flett,

• John Mullan

  • Jonathan Swift by Victoria Glendinning

• Stephen Holmes

  • The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

• John Burnside
  Two Poems

• Michael Ignatieff

  • Liberalism and Its Discontents by Alan Brinkley

• Ian Hamilton

  • The Complete Works of George Orwell edited by Peter Davidson

• John Barrell

  • Theatres of Memory. Vol. II. Island Stories: Unravelling Britain by Raphael Samuel, edited by Alison Light

• Charles van Onselen
  Dead but Not Quite Buried: the desecration industry in South Africa

• Justine Jordan

  • Pieces of Light by Adam Thorpe

• Christopher Prendergast

  • An Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900 by Franco Moretti

• Peter Campbell

  • Pieter De Hooch 1629-84 by Peter Sutton
  • On Reflection by Jonathan Miller

• E.S. Turner

  • Sugar-Plums and Sherbet: A Prehistory of Sweets by Laura Mason

• Tom Vanderbilt

  • No Sweat: Fashion, Free Trade, and the Rights of Garment Workers edited by Andrew Ross

• John Upton
  Diary: No bail for Mr X