CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Lucia Berlin
• John Burnside
• Patrick Cockburn
• Helen Cooper
• Nicole Devarenne
• Jenny Diski
• Hal Foster
• Charles Glass
• Eric Hobsbawm
• Peter Howarth
• Thomas Jones
• Tom Leonard
• Donald MacKenzie
• Tom Nairn
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Adam Phillips
• Jonathan Rée
• Lawrence Rosen

Contents

• Lawrence Rosen

  • Globalised Islam: The Search for a New Ummah by Olivier Roy
  • The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West by Gilles Kepel, translated by Pascale Ghazaleh

• Letters
  

• Patrick Cockburn
  Looking for Someone to Kill: in Baghdad

• Eric Hobsbawm

  • Between Sex and Power: Family in the World 1900-2000 by Göran Therborn

• Helen Cooper

  • Blood and Roses: The Paston Family in the 15th Century by Helen Castor

• Hal Foster
  In Venice: at the Biennale

• Charles Glass
  An Assassin’s Land: Lebanon without the Syrians

• Tom Leonard
  Poem: ‘Remembrance Day’

• Tom Nairn
  Democratic Warming: The Upstaging of the G8

• Donald MacKenzie

  • The (Mis)behaviour of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward by Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard Hudson

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: the internet

• Peter Howarth

  • Collected Poems by Edward Thomas, edited by R. George Thomas

• Jonathan Rée

  • Søren Kierkegaard: A Biography by Joakim Garff, translated by Bruce Kirmmse

• Jenny Diski

  • Literary Secretaries/Secretarial Culture edited by Leah Price and Pamela Thurschwell

• Lucia Berlin
  Love, Lucia: letters to August Kleinzahler

• Adam Phillips

  • The Sea by John Banville

• John Burnside
  Poem: ‘Old Man, Swimming’

• Nicole Devarenne

  • Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk
  • A Change of Tongue by Antjie Krog
  • Die Onsigbares by E.K.M. Dido

• Andrew O’Hagan
  A City of Prose: in Tavistock Square