Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Michael Byers
• Patrick Cockburn
• Stefan Collini
• Patrick Collinson
• Wendy Doniger
• Terry Eagleton
• P.N. Furbank
• Thomas Jones
• Yitzhak Laor
• Liam McIlvanney
• A.W. Moore
• Stephen Mulhall
• Bernard Rudden
• Karl Sabbagh
• Matthew Sweeney
• David Wootton

Contents

• David Wootton

  • One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal by Alice Domurat Dreger

• Letters
  Doreen Elcox, Keith Flett, Nicholas Beale, Michael Costello, Xiaomai Feng, Fred Josephs, Premen Addy, Jonathan Mallalieu, Joe Morison, D.D. Guttenplan, Vladan Vidakovic, Chris Kirtley, Virginia Price Evans, Ross Hibbert, Rosamund Young

• Stefan Collini

  • Stephen Spender: The Authorised Biography by John Sutherland

• A.W. Moore

  • The Millennium Problems: The Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles of Our Time by Keith Devlin

• Karl Sabbagh
  The Strange Case of Louis de Branges: the man who believes he has proved the Riemann Hypothesis

• Liam McIlvanney

  • You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free by James Kelman

• Terry Eagleton

  • Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake by Carol Loeb Shloss

• Matthew Sweeney
  Two Poems

• Wendy Doniger

  • Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography by Stephen Knight

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: politicians v. the press

• Patrick Collinson

  • Reformation: Europe’s House Divided 1490-1700 by Diarmaid MacCulloch

• Stephen Mulhall

  • Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame and the Law by Martha Nussbaum

• P.N. Furbank

  • Strangers: Homosexual Love in the 19th Century by Graham Robb

• Bernard Rudden

  • London's New River by Robert Ward

• Michael Byers
  Alleged War Criminals: Saddam, Milosevic and Sharon

• Yitzhak Laor
  In Hebron: The Soldiers’ Stories

• Patrick Cockburn
  Diary: Iraq after the handover