CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Jasper Becker
• Peter Campbell
• Patrick Collinson
• D.J. Enright
• William Fiennes
• Jorie Graham
• Hugh Haughton
• Kathleen Jamie
• Martin Jay
• John Lanchester
• Thomas Laqueur
• Sarah Rigby
• John Sutherland
• E.S. Turner
• Mary-Kay Wilmers

Contents

• Thomas Laqueur

  • The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present by Roy Porter

• Letters
  Richard Taylor, W.S. Milne, Macneil of Barra, Tom Buscher, George Barnard, Ivan Hewett, John Bale, Bruce Clunies Ross, Sean Callow

• Kathleen Jamie
  Two Poems

• John Lanchester

  • Hannibal by Thomas Harris

• Patrick Collinson

  • Martin Luther: The Christian Between God and Death by Richard Marius

• John Sutherland

  • My Tiny Life: Crime and Punishment in a Virtual World by Donald Dibbell

• Jorie Graham
  Poem: ‘Underneath (13)’

• Martin Jay

  • All too Human: A Political Education by George Stephanopoulos
  • No One Left to Lie to: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton by Christopher Hitchens

• Hugh Haughton

  • Man from Babel by Eugene Jolas
  • No Author Better Served: The Correspondence of Samuel Beckett and Alan Schneider edited by Maurice Harmon

• Peter Campbell

  • Morandi edited by Ernst-Gerhard Güse and Franz Armin Morat

• William Fiennes

  • Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez
  • About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory by Barry Lopez

• Jasper Becker

  • The Origins of the Cultural Revolution. Vol. III: The Coming of the Cataclysm 1961-66 by Roderick MacFarquhar

• D.J. Enright

  • The Chain’s Great Continent: China in Western Minds by Jonathan Spence

• E.S. Turner

  • The Mysterious Marie Corelli: Queen of Victorian Bestsellers by Teresa Ransom

• Sarah Rigby

  • Everything You Know by Zoë Heller

• Mary-Kay Wilmers
  Diary on Brussels