Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Burnside
• Peter Campbell
• Peter Clarke
• David Craig
• Tony Harrison
• Michael Hofmann
• Thomas Jones
• Stephen Mulhall
• Jeremy Noel-Tod
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Hugh Pennington
• Katha Pollitt
• Steven Shapin
• Daniel Soar
• Art Spiegelman
• John Sturrock
• Christopher Tayler
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Michael Hofmann

  • Collected Poems by Robert Lowell, edited by Frank Bidart and David Gewanter

• Letters
  John Rettie, Patrick Collinson, Yitzhak Laor, Bennett Lovett-Graff, Parina Douzina Stiakaki, Mona Baker, Alan Locke, Masao Miyoshi, Yovanka Malkovich, Amit Chaudhuri, Robert Palter, Leslie Wilson, Mark McLean, Marta Knobloch, Kendall Wild, Editor, ‘London Review’, Mike Harding

• Peter Clarke
  Blair Must Go: why Tony Blair should go

• Daniel Soar
  At The Hutton Enquiry: Hutton’s Big Top

• Christopher Tayler

  • Yellow Dog by Martin Amis

• Jeremy Noel-Tod

  • The Invention of Dr Cake by Andrew Motion
  • Public Property by Andrew Motion

• Peter Campbell
  On Video: The Art of the Digital File

• Steven Shapin

  • MIT and the Rise of Entrepreneurial Science by Henry Etzkowitz
  • Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialisation of Higher Education by Derek Bok

• Tony Harrison
  Poem: ‘Cremation Eclogue’

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Hatchet Jobs

• Art Spiegelman
  ‘In the Shadow of No Towers’, episode 10: the comic continues

• Andrew O’Hagan

  • Searching for John Ford: A Life by Joseph McBride

• Michael Wood

  • Kate Remembered by A. Scott Berg

• John Sturrock

  • Talking Proper: The Rise of Accent as Social Symbol by Lynda Mugglestone

• Stephen Mulhall

  • The Problem of the Soul: Two Visions of Mind and How to Reconcile Them by Owen Flanagan

• Hugh Pennington

  • Pox: Genius, Madness and the Mysteries of Syphilis by Deborah Hayden

• Katha Pollitt

  • I Don't Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson
  • A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother by Rachel Cusk
  • The Truth about Babies: From A-Z by Ian Sansom
  • What Are Children For? by Laurie Taylor and Matthew Taylor
  • The Commercialisation of Intimate Life by Arlie Russell Hochschild

• John Burnside
  Two Poems

• David Craig
  Diary: The Call of the Abyss