Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Alfred Appel Jr
• Peter Campbell
• Anne Carson
• Susan Eilenberg
• Jerry Fodor
• Christopher Harvie
• Thomas Jones
• John Lanchester
• Thomas Laqueur
• Sally Mapstone
• Hugh Pennington
• William Skidelsky
• Matthew Sweeney
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Susan Eilenberg

  • Iris Murdoch: A Life by Peter Conradi

• Letters
  Stuart Hood, Elizabeth Roberts, Michael Goldman, Jenny Diski, Russell Seitz, Toby Poynder, J.F. Darycott, Stephen Holt, Judith Rascoe, Alan Myers, David Lindley, Charles Coutinho, Sanford Gabin, John O’Byrne

• Thomas Laqueur

  • Primo Levi’s Ordinary Virtues: From Testimony to Ethics by Robert Gordon
  • Primo Levi by Ian Thomson
  • The Double Bond: Primo Levi, a Biography by Carole Angier

• Peter Campbell
  On the Beach: Untucked

• Matthew Sweeney
  Poem: ‘Horse Dreams’

• Michael Wood

  • Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet 1871-81 by Joseph Frank

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Flirtation, Seduction and Betrayal

• Christopher Harvie
  Devolution Doom: Scotland’s crisis, and some solutions

• Jerry Fodor

  • Thinking about Consciousness by David Papineau

• John Lanchester

  • From Russia with Love, Dr No and Goldfinger by Ian Fleming

• Anne Carson
  Euripides to the Audience*: Euripides

• William Skidelsky

  • Twelve by Nick McDonell

• Sally Mapstone

  • Dirt Music by Tim Winton

• Alfred Appel Jr
  Jungle Joys: Wa-Wa-Wa with the Duke

• Hugh Pennington
  Smallpox Scares: Bioterrorism