Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Peter Campbell
• Linda Colley
• Paul Driver
• Terry Eagleton
• Tessa Hadley
• Thomas Jones
• Rashid Khalidi
• Elizabeth Lowry
• Edwin Morgan
• Thomas Nagel
• Don Paterson
• Steven Shapin
• Naomi Shepherd
• Christopher Tayler
• Eliot Weinberger
• John Whitfield
• David Wootton

Contents

• Eliot Weinberger
  What I Heard about Iraq: watch and listen

• Letters
  Thomas Davies, Patrick Collinson, Bernard Liengme, Teresa Grant, Andrew Jotischky, Christopher Small, Nick Chapple, Virginia Warren, Phil Edwards, Sylvia Elias, Andrew Sheppard

• Thomas Nagel

  • A Life of H.L.A. Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream by Nicola Lacey

• Linda Colley

  • The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain 1649-1815 by N.A.M. Rodger

• Edwin Morgan
  Poem: ‘An Old Woman’s Birthday’

• Rashid Khalidi
  After Arafat: Palestine’s options

• Terry Eagleton

  • The Pope in Winter: The Dark Face of John Paul II’s Papacy by John Cornwell

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: The smothering of Babylon

• David Wootton

  • Dick Turpin: The Myth of the English Highwayman by James Sharpe

• Christopher Tayler

  • Godzilla on My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters by William Tsutsui

• Don Paterson
  Poem: ‘Aphorisms’

• Tessa Hadley

  • Feed My Dear Dogs by Emma Richler

• Elizabeth Lowry

  • The Last Flight of the Flamingo by Mia Couto, translated by David Brookshaw

• Peter Campbell
  At the Science Museum: The Rolls-Royce Merlin and other engines

• Paul Driver

  • Mendelssohn: A Life in Music by Larry Todd

• Steven Shapin

  • Bordeaux by Robert Parker
  • The Wine Buyer’s Guide by Robert Parker and Pierre-Antoine Rovani
  • Mondovino directed by Jonathan Nossiter

• John Whitfield

  • The Earth: An Intimate History by Richard Fortey

• Naomi Shepherd
  Diary: Israel’s longing for normality