CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Colin Burrow
• Terry Castle
• Jerry Fodor
• Ian Hacking
• Tony Harrison
• Chalmers Johnson
• Thomas Jones
• John Lanchester
• James Lasdun
• Hilary Mantel
• Nicholas Penny
• Adam Phillips
• Robin Robertson
• David Runciman
• Ian Sansom
• A Security Guard
• Jonathan Steele
• Christopher Tayler
• Colm Tóibín

Contents

• Colm Tóibín

  • My Heart Is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots by John Guy
  • Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens by Jane Dunn

• Letters
  Ilan Pappe, Maurice Vile, Alan Gabbey, Hugh Pennington, Janet L. Nelson, Grant MacLean, Julian Rathbone

• David Runciman
  Neo-Blairism: Blair’s conference speech

• John Lanchester

  • Mind the Gap: The New Class Divide in Britain by Ferdinand Mount

• Ian Sansom

  • Anthony Powell: A Life by Michael Barber

• Tony Harrison
  Two Poems

• Christopher Tayler

  • The Closed Circle by Jonathan Coe

• Colin Burrow

  • Havoc, in Its Third Year by Ronan Bennett

• Ian Hacking

  • In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion by Scott Atran

• Jerry Fodor

  • Kripke: Names, Necessity and Identity by Christopher Hughes

• Hilary Mantel

  • Hustling Is Not Stealing: Stories of an African Bar Girl by John Chernoff
  • Exchange Is Not Robbery: More Stories of an African Bar Girl by John Chernoff
  • Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Bob Dylan’s Tall Tales

• Chalmers Johnson

  • Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to 10 September 2001 by Steve Coll

• A Security Guard
  Email from Iraq: Close protection in Baghdad

• Jonathan Steele
  Doing Well out of War: Chechnya

• Robin Robertson
  Two Poems

• Terry Castle

  • Wild Girls: Paris, Sappho and Art: The Lives and Loves of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks by Diana Souhami

• Nicholas Penny
  At the Royal Scottish Academy: The Age of Titian

• Adam Phillips

  • Conversations in Bolzano by Sándor Márai, translated by George Szirtes

• James Lasdun
  Diary: with the rent-collector