Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Andrew Berry
• Stephen Burt
• Peter Campbell
• Siddhartha Deb
• Jerry Fodor
• Ben Gilbert
• J. Hoberman
• Thomas Jones
• Ross McKibbin
• Stephen Sedley
• Charles Simic
• Tom Vanderbilt
• Tony Wood
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Peter Campbell
  Why does it take so long to mend an escalator?: riding the escalators

• Letters
  Jonathan Rée, Andrew Kilmister, Humphrey Fullerton, Stanton Cavendish, Luc Schokkaert, Robert Livingston, Nicholas Lezard, Nikos Stangos, Sean McGlynn, Rick Osborn, Stefan Collini, Robert FitzGerald, Bernard Porter

• Ross McKibbin

  • Kinnock: The Biography by Martin Westlake

• Michael Wood

  • Dicta and Contradicta by Karl Kraus, translated by Jonathan McVity

• Jerry Fodor

  • Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective by Donald Davidson

• Tom Vanderbilt

  • Body of Secrets: How America’s NSA and Britain’s GCHQ Eavesdrop on the World by James Bamford
  • Total Surveillance: Investigating the Big Brother World of E-Spies, Eavesdroppers and CCTV by John Parker

• Charles Simic
  Two Poems

• Andrew Berry

  • Evolution’s Workshop: God and Science on the Galapagos Islands by Edward Larson

• Tony Wood

  • A Novel without Lies by Anatoly Mariengof, translated by José Alaniz

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Buffy!

• Siddhartha Deb

  • The Horned Man by James Lasdun

• Stephen Burt

  • Collected Poems: Volume I by William Carlos Williams, edited by A. Walton Litz and Christopher MacGowan
  • Collected Poems: Volume II by William Carlos Williams, edited by A. Walton Litz and Christopher MacGowan

• J. Hoberman

  • Hollywood and Anti-Semitism: A Cultural History up to World War Two by Steven Alan Carr

• Stephen Sedley
  Wringing out the Fault: The Right to Silence

• Peter Campbell
  At the National Gallery: Aelbert Cuyp

• Ben Gilbert
  In the City: Diary of a Trader