Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Mary Beard
• Dinah Birch
• Jason Burke
• Peter Campbell
• Patrick Collinson
• Terry Eagleton
• James Francken
• Thomas Jones
• John Kerrigan
• John Kinsella
• Peter Lagerquist
• Ross McKibbin
• Stephen Sedley
• John Sturrock
• Jeremy Waldron
• Sean Wilsey
• James Wolcott

Contents

• Dinah Birch

  • Glimpses of the Wonderful: The Life of Philip Henry Gosse 1810-88 by Ann Thwaite

• Letters
  Diego Gambetta, Ian Thomson, David Walker, Peter Conradi, Kate Hutchinson, Henry Tattersall, Martin Watts, Alison Macleod, Sabah Salih, Wolfgang Eisermann, Mark Valentine, John Bayley, Canon John Giles, Michael Goldman, Simon Renouf, Pauline Asher

• Terry Eagleton

  • The ‘Criterion’: Cultural Politics and Periodical Networks in Interwar Britain by Jason Harding

• Ross McKibbin

  • The Cripps Version: The Life of Sir Stafford Cripps by Peter Clarke

• Jeremy Waldron

  • Against Equality of Opportunity by Matt Cavanagh

• John Sturrock

  • Keys of Egypt by Lesley Atkins and Roy Atkins
  • The Rosetta Stone: The Story of the Decoding of Hieroglyphics by Robert Solé and Dominique Valbelle, translated by Steven Rendall
  • Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World’s Undeciphered Scripts by Andrew Robinson
  • The Man who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris by Andrew Robinson

• Mary Beard

  • Gwen Raverat: Friends, Family and Affections by Frances Spalding

• Patrick Collinson

  • The Antichrist’s Lewd Hat: Protestants, Papists and Players in Post-Reformation England by Peter Lake and Michael Questier

• Stephen Sedley

  • Sceptical Essays on Human Rights edited by Tom Campbell and K.D. Ewing

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Cyborgs

• John Kerrigan

  • Reading after Theory by Valentine Cunningham

• Peter Campbell
  In the Physic Garden: in Chelsea

• Peter Lagerquist
  Very Active Defence: Private Defence

• James Wolcott

  • The Black Veil by Rick Moody

• Sean Wilsey
  The Greeter: With Cantor Fitzgerald

• John Kinsella
  Poem: ‘Rain Gauge’

• James Francken

  • Zanzibar by Giles Foden

• Jason Burke
  Diary: in Kurdistan