CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Colin Burrow
• T.J. Clark
• James Davidson
• Jenny Diski
• Mark Doty
• Daniel S. Greenberg
• J.L. Heilbron
• Clive James
• Thomas Jones
• John Jones
• Frank Kermode
• Ferdinand Mount
• Stephen Mulhall
• Jacqueline Rose
• David Runciman
• Christopher Tayler
• Eliot Weinberger
• John Hartley Williams

Contents

• David Runciman
  Cricket’s Superpowers: Beyond the Ashes

• Letters
  A.W.B. Simpson, Rob Stradling, Eric Griffiths, Alistair Dixon, Michael Debbané, A.J. Nicholson, Richard Davenport-Hines, Simon Barley

• T.J. Clark

  • The Mirror of the Gods: Classical Mythology in Renaissance Art by Malcolm Bull

• Mark Doty
  Poem: ‘Theory of Beauty (Third Avenue)’

• Frank Kermode

  • The Letters of Robert Lowell edited by Saskia Hamilton

• Stephen Mulhall

  • Nihilism and Emancipation: Ethics, Politics and Law by Gianni Vattimo, translated by William McCuaig

• John Hartley Williams
  Poem: ‘Requiem for a Princess’

• Daniel S. Greenberg

  • The Republican War on Science by Chris Mooney

• Jenny Diski

  • Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species by Laura Flanders

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: John Humphrys

• Ferdinand Mount

  • Rosebery: Statesman in Turmoil by Leo McKinstry

• Colin Burrow

  • A Cultural History of Causality: Science, Murder Novels and Systems of Thought by Stephen Kern

• Jacqueline Rose

  • Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham

• Christopher Tayler

  • In the Fold by Rachel Cusk

• J.L. Heilbron

  • The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus by Owen Gingerich

• James Davidson
  At the British Museum: Persia’s ‘Forgotten Empire’

• John Jones

  • Fiery Heart: The First Life of Leigh Hunt by Nicholas Roe
  • The Wit in the Dungeon: A Life of Leigh Hunt by Anthony Holden

• Clive James
  Poem: ‘Lock Me Away’

• Eliot Weinberger
  Diary: a poetry festival in Chengdu