Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Ashbery
• Peter Campbell
• Linda Colley
• Jenny Diski
• Elizabeth Drew
• Erika Hagelberg
• Leofranc Holford-Strevens
• Fredric Jameson
• Chalmers Johnson
• Thomas Jones
• Nicholas Penny
• Steven Shapin
• David Trotter
• James Wood
• Michael Wood
• Slavoj Žižek

Contents

• Chalmers Johnson

  • Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold by Sterling Seagrave and Peggy Seagrave

• Letters
  Paul Taylor, Christopher May, Wilhelm Schmid, Lindesay Irvine, Peter Womack, Martha Bridegam, L.P. Harvey, Christopher Prendergast, Jeremy Harding, Brian Cosgrove

• John Ashbery
  Two Poems

• Elizabeth Drew

  • John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life 1917-63 by Robert Dallek

• Steven Shapin

  • Camembert: A National Myth by Pierre Boisard, translated by Richard Miller

• Linda Colley

  • William Cobbett: Selected Writings edited by Leonora Nattrass
  • Rural rides by William Cobbett, edited by Ian Dyck

• Peter Campbell
  Restoring St. George’s: in Bloomsbury

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: cold fish at the royal household

• Fredric Jameson

  • Somersault by Kenzaburo Oe, translated by Philip Gabriel

• Slavoj Žižek

  • The Return of the Dancing Master by Henning Mankell, translated by Laurie Thompson

• James Wood

  • Vernon God Little by D.B.C. Pierre

• David Trotter

  • A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature by Bill Brown

• Nicholas Penny
  At the Musée du Luxembourg: Botticelli

• Leofranc Holford-Strevens

  • The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester

• Erika Hagelberg

  • The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Astonishing Story that Reveals How Each of Us Can Trace Our Genetic Ancestors by Bryan Sykes
  • Mapping Human History: Unravelling the Mystery of Adam and Eve by Steve Olson
  • The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey by Spencer Wells

• Jenny Diski

  • The Story of V: Opening Pandora’s Box by Catherine Blackledge

• Michael Wood
  Diary: in the City of Good Air