Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Mary Beard
• Peter Campbell
• Robert Crawford
• Joseph J. Ellis
• Mark Ford
• Hal Foster
• Michael Gilsenan
• R.W. Johnson
• Thomas Jones
• Nick Laird
• Jonathan Lamb
• Robert Olby
• Edward Said
• Iain Sinclair
• Art Spiegelman
• Megan Vaughan

Contents

• Edward Said

  • Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-67 by Catherine Hall

• Letters
  John Glenn, Kate Soper, Dick Pountain, Oliver Pretzel, Neil Mackenzie, Anatol Lieven, Charles Lindholm, John Theakstone, Robert Creamer, David Pollack, Clive James, Michel Carton, Peter Campbell

• Robert Crawford
  Two Poems

• Michael Gilsenan
  Out of the Hadhramaut: Being ‘Arab’

• Mary Beard

  • Cleopatra: Beyond the Myth by Michel Chauveau, translated by David Lorton
  • The Roman Mistress: Ancient and Modern Representations by Maria Wyke

• Robert Olby

  • Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox

• Hal Foster
  In New York: plans for Ground Zero

• R.W. Johnson

  • The Years of Lyndon Johnson. Vol III: Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Boycotting Bristol

• Art Spiegelman
  ‘In the Shadow of No Towers’, episode 3: The comic continues

• Joseph J. Ellis

  • Benjamin Franklin by Edmund S. Morgan

• Mark Ford

  • The Human Country: New and Collected Stories by Harry Mathews
  • The Case of the Persevering Maltese: Collected Essays by Harry Mathews

• Peter Campbell

  • The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, His Friends and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History by David Freedberg

• Nick Laird
  Poem: ‘Imperial’

• Jonathan Lamb

  • Voyages of Delusion: The Search for the Northwest Passage in the Age of Reason by Glyn Williams
  • Voyage to Desolation Island by Jean-Paul Kauffmann, translated by Patricia Clancy

• Iain Sinclair

  • All the Devils Are Here by David Seabrook

• Megan Vaughan
  Diary: Vampires in Malawi