Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Barrell
• Alan Bennett
• Peter Campbell
• Alex Clark
• Richard Davenport-Hines
• James Davidson
• Jerry Fodor
• Paul Foot
• Richard Fortey
• James Francken
• J.L. Heilbron
• Thomas Jones
• James Lasdun
• Alex Oliver
• Richard Poirier
• Bruce Robbins
• Lorna Scott Fox
• Norman Vance

Contents

• Richard Poirier

  • Bellow: A Biography by James Atlas

• Letters
  Earl Dachslager, Laura Mandell, Ellis Thorpe, Arnold Rattenbury, Editor, ‘London Review’, John Black, Anna Levy, David Ridge, John Worthen, Keith Flett, Frank Phillips

• Alan Bennett
  A Cure for Arthritis and Other Tales

• Peter Campbell
  At the National Gallery

• Paul Foot
  Medes and Persians: The Government’s Favourite Accountants

• Richard Davenport-Hines

  • The Science of Marijuana by Leslie Iversen
  • Drug Diplomacy in the 20th Century: An International History by William McAllister
  • The Control of Fuddle and Flash: A Sociological History of the Regulation of Alcohol and Opiates by Jan-Willem Gerritsen
  • Drugs and the Law: Report of the Independent Inquiry into the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971

• James Lasdun
  Poem: ‘Returning the Gift’

• John Barrell

  • Coleridge: Darker Reflections by Richard Holmes

• James Francken
  Short Cuts: the Booker Prize shortlist

• Norman Vance

  • Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle, edited by Rodger Tarr and Mark Engel

• J.L. Heilbron

  • On Tycho’s Island: Tycho Brahe and His Assistants, 1570-1601 by John Robert Christianson

• Richard Fortey

  • The First Fossil Hunters: Palaeontology in Greek and Roman Times by Adrienne Mayor

• Thomas Jones

  • In the Shape of a Boar by Lawrence Norfolk

• Alex Clark

  • All Hail the New Puritans edited by Nicholas Blincoe and Matt Thorne

• Lorna Scott Fox

  • Daphne du Maurier: Haunted Heiress by Nina Auerbach

• Jerry Fodor

  • Puccini: His International Art by Michele Girardi, translated by Laura Basini

• Bruce Robbins

  • Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in 20th-Century France by Judith Butler

• Alex Oliver

  • Articulating Reasons: An Introduction to Inferentialism by Robert Brandom

• James Davidson
  Face to Face with Merce Cunningham