Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Fatema Ahmed
• Peter Campbell
• Terry Eagleton
• Sophie Harrison
• Mary Hawthorne
• Martin Jacques
• Clive James
• Thomas Jones
• John Lanchester
• James Lasdun
• Robert Macfarlane
• Benjamin Markovits
• Wyatt Mason
• Hugh Pennington
• Amartya Sen
• Colm Tóibín
• Adrian Woolfson
• Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Contents

• John Lanchester

  • The Murdoch Archipelago by Bruce Page
  • Rupert Murdoch: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Media Wizard by Neil Chenoweth
  • Autumn of the Moguls: My Misadventures with the Titans, Poseurs and Money Guys who Mastered and Messed up Big Media by Michael Wolff

• Letters
  Martin Summers, Nick Simpson, Julian Bell, Edward Pearce, Vanessa Coode, Martin Ward, Rupert Read, John Higgins, David Craig, Gavin Bell, Alison Macleod, Tuvia Blumenthal, Jonathan Sawday, John Price, John Heath

• Martin Jacques

  • Empire of Capital by Ellen Meiksins Wood
  • Empire Lite: Nation-Building in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan by Michael Ignatieff
  • Global Civil Society? by John Keane
  • Global Civil Society: An Answer to War by Mary Kaldor

• Amartya Sen
  Why We Should Preserve the Spotted Owl: Sustainability

• Mary Hawthorne

  • Walker Evans by James Mellow

• James Lasdun
  Poem: ‘Mr. W. H.’

• Terry Eagleton

  • D.H. Lawrence and ‘Difference’: Post-Coloniality and the Poetry of the Present by Amit Chaudhuri

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Godot on a bike

• Wyatt Mason

  • Old School by Tobias Wolff

• Fatema Ahmed

  • Cassada by James Salter
  • Light Years by James Salter

• Robert Macfarlane

  • First to Fly: The Unlikely Triumph of Wilbur and Orville Wright by James Tobin
  • The Wright Brothers: The Aviation Pioneers who Changed the World by Ian Mackersey
  • Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight by Paul Hoffman
  • Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity to the First World War by Richard Hallion

• Clive James
  Poem: ‘The Zero Pilot’

• Adrian Woolfson

  • Life’s Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe by Simon Conway Morris

• Hugh Pennington

  • The Return of the White Plague: Global Poverty and the ‘New’ Tuberculosis edited by Matthew Gandy and Alimuddin Zumla

• Ruth Bernard Yeazell

  • Life in the Sick-Room by Harriet Martineau, edited by Maria Frawley
  • On Being Ill by Virginia Woolf, edited by Hermione Lee

• Peter Campbell
  At the Royal Academy: Philip Guston fouls the nest

• Colm Tóibín

  • War Paint: Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden: Their Lives, Their Times, Their Rivalry by Lindy Woodhead
  • Diana Vreeland by Eleanor Dwight

• Benjamin Markovits
  Poem: ‘Rosehips’

• Sophie Harrison
  Diary: cutting up a corpse