CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Nina Auerbach
• Peter Campbell
• Terry Castle
• Amit Chaudhuri
• John Connelly
• Robert Crawford
• Mahmoud Darwish
• Tim Flannery
• Charles Glass
• Thomas Jones
• Adam Kuper
• Gail Levin
• Christopher Millis
• Tom Nairn
• Andrew Nathan
• A.D. Nuttall
• Stephen Sedley
• William Skidelsky
• E.S. Turner
• Taline Voskeritchian

Contents

• Amit Chaudhuri

  • Provincialising Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference by Dipesh Chakrabarty

• Letters
  Richard Clogg, Patrick Renshaw, David Simpson, Ian Hennessey, Peregrine Worsthorne, Julian Rathbone, Brian Concannon, Andrew McNeillie, Ralph Seliger, Martin Pierce, Geoffrey Thompson, Michael Wright

• Tim Flannery

  • The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilisation by Brian Fagan

• Mahmoud Darwish translated by Taline Voskeritchian and Christopher Millis
  Poem: ‘I Remember al-Sayyab’

• Tom Nairn

  • After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order by Emmanuel Todd, translated by C. Jon Delogu
  • Bubble of American Supremacy: Correcting the Misuse of American Power by George Soros

• E.S. Turner

  • The Bugatti Queen: In Search of a Motor-Racing Legend by Miranda Seymour

• Andrew Nathan

  • Spymaster: Dai Li and the Chinese Secret Service by Frederic Wakeman Jr.

• John Connelly

  • Rising ’44: ‘The Battle for Warsaw’ by Norman Davies

• Charles Glass

  • A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples by Ilan Pappe
  • The Gun and the Olive Branch by David Hirst
  • The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited by Benny Morris

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: unimpressed by good booking men

• Nina Auerbach

  • Possessions: The History and Uses of Haunting in the Hudson Valley by Judith Richardson

• William Skidelsky

  • The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem

• Robert Crawford
  Three Poems

• Terry Castle

  • ‘That Furious Lesbian’: The Story of Mercedes de Acosta by Robert Schanke
  • Women in Turmoil: Six Plays by Mercedes de Acosta, edited by Robert Schanke

• Gail Levin

  • Edward Hopper edited by Sheena Wagstaff

• Peter Campbell
  At Tate Modern: good plain painting and men in shirt-sleeves

• A.D. Nuttall

  • Flesh in the Age of Reason by Roy Porter

• Adam Kuper

  • Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Formative Years by Christopher Johnson

• Stephen Sedley
  Diary: the man who tried to bring Pinochet to justice