CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Julian Bell
• John Burnside
• Peter Campbell
• R.W. Johnson
• Alison Jolly
• August Kleinzahler
• Jonathan Lamb
• Yitzhak Laor
• Thomas Laqueur
• Elizabeth Lowry
• Thomas Nagel
• Tim Radford
• Tom Shippey
• Henry Shukman
• Daniel Soar
• Colm Tóibín
• E.S. Turner

Contents

• Thomas Laqueur

  • Funerals, Politics and Memory in Modern France 1789-1996 by Avner Ben-Amos
  • Monumental Intolerance: Jean Baffier, a Nationalist Sculptor in Fin-de-Siècle France by Neil McWilliam

• Letters
  Bachman Reza, Philip McGarry, Peter Mair, Alan Murray, Bengt Rösiö, Michiel Wijnberg, Davor Butkovic, Daniel Bell, Richard Andrews, Ian MacDougall, Tim Salmon

• John Burnside
  Two Poems

• Tim Radford

  • Solly Zuckerman: A Scientist out of the Ordinary by John Peyton

• Alison Jolly

  • Tree of Origin: What Primate Behaviour Can Tell Us about Human Social Evolution edited by Frans de Waal
  • The Ape and the Sushi Master: Cultural Reflections by a Primatologist by Frans de Waal

• R.W. Johnson

  • The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens

• Colm Tóibín
  The Last Witness: The career of James Baldwin

• Henry Shukman
  Poem: ‘Schmaltz’

• Daniel Soar
  Short Cuts: The Big Issue

• Elizabeth Lowry

  • Island: Collected Stories by Alistair MacLeod
  • No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod

• Yitzhak Laor

  • The Same Sea by Amos Oz

• Thomas Nagel

  • The Quest for Reality: Subjectivism and the Metaphysics of Colour by Barry Stroud

• Julian Bell

  • The Complete Writings on Art by Walter Sickert, edited by Anna Gruetzner Robins

• Peter Campbell
  At the British Library: the lie of the land

• Tom Shippey

  • Viking Age Iceland by Jesse Byock

• Jonathan Lamb

  • Thomas Chatterton and Romantic Culture by Nick Groom

• E.S. Turner

  • Diary of an African Journey (1914) by H. Rider Haggard

• August Kleinzahler
  Too Bad about Mrs Ferri: wiseguys