CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• David A. Bell
• Eleanor Birne
• Peter Campbell
• David Craig
• Robert Crawford
• Lorraine Daston
• Mary Douglas
• Terry Eagleton
• Günter Eich
• Michael Hofmann
• Nicholas Horsfall
• Thomas Jones
• Frank Kermode
• Pankaj Mishra
• Hugh Pennington
• David Simpson
• Andrew Sugden
• Eliot Weinberger
• James Wood
• Patrick Wright

Contents

• Pankaj Mishra
  The ‘People’s War’: The Maoists of Nepal

• Letters
  Geoffrey Lehmann, Victor Black, Edward Luttwak, Jonathan Aldred, Mat Pires, Mark Vernon, Carol Hamilton, A.W. Brian Simpson, Donald Gardner

• David A. Bell

  • The Legend of Napoleon by Sudhir Hazareesingh
  • The Retreat by Patrick Rambaud, translated by William Hobson
  • Napoleon: The Eternal Man of St Helena by Max Gallo, translated by William Hobson
  • The Saint-Napoleon: Celebrations of Sovereignty in 19th-Century France by Sudhir Hazareesingh
  • Napoleon and the British by Stuart Semmel

• Robert Crawford
  Poem: ‘The Exorcist’

• Patrick Wright

  • DPM: Disruptive Pattern Material; An Encyclopedia of Camouflage: Nature – Military – Culture

• Günter Eich translated by Michael Hofmann
  Five Poems

• Frank Kermode

  • What Good Are the Arts? by John Carey

• Terry Eagleton

  • Songs of Experience: Modern American and European Variations on a Universal Theme by Martin Jay

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: What’s your codename?

• David Simpson

  • The Question of Zion by Jacqueline Rose

• Peter Campbell
  At the British Museum: Under African Eyes

• James Wood

  • The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

• Eleanor Birne

  • The Accidental by Ali Smith

• Mary Douglas

  • How the Bible Became a Book: The Textualisation of Ancient Israel by William Schniedewind

• Nicholas Horsfall

  • Horace: Odes and Epodes edited by Niall Rudd

• Lorraine Daston

  • The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany by Neil Kenny

• Hugh Pennington
  If H5N1 Evolves: Planning for Bird Flu

• Andrew Sugden

  • Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis by Michael Williams

• David Craig
  Two Poems

• Eliot Weinberger
  Next stop, Forbidden City: The Terrible Tale of Gu Cheng