Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Bruce Ackerman
• Malcolm Bull
• Colin Burrow
• Peter Campbell
• Frank Close
• John Demos
• Jenny Diski
• Solomon Feferman
• Eric Foner
• Richard Fortey
• Thomas Jones
• James Lasdun
• Edwin Morgan
• Mark Rudman
• Stephen Sedley
• John Sturrock
• Theo Tait
• Jeremy Treglown

Contents

• Malcolm Bull

  • The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing by Michael Mann
  • Genocide in the Age of the Nation State. Vol. I: The Meaning of Genocide by Mark Levene
  • Genocide in the Age of the Nation State: Vol. II: The Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide by Mark Levene

• Letters
  John Lanchester, Nicholas Cocks, Randy Cohen, Jonathan Carter, Hugh Aldersey-Williams, Bruce Cumings, Adrian Glossop, John Leath

• Stephen Sedley

  • The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold by Geoffrey Robertson

• John Sturrock

  • The Child by Jules Vallès, translated by Douglas Parmée

• Theo Tait

  • Houellebecq non autorisé: enquête sur un phénomène by Denis Demonpion
  • The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq, translated by Gavin Bowd

• Edwin Morgan
  Poem: ‘The War on the War on Terror’

• John Demos

  • White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America by Fintan O’Toole

• Eric Foner

  • How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier by Stuart Banner

• Bruce Ackerman
  The Stealth Revolution, Continued: Samuel Alito and the Supreme Court

• Colin Burrow

  • The Real Life of Anthony Burgess by Andrew Biswell

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: shipping containers

• Jeremy Treglown

  • Olivia Manning: A Life by Neville Braybrooke and June Braybrooke

• Jenny Diski

  • Scott of the Antarctic: A Life of Courage and Tragedy in the Extreme South by David Crane

• Peter Campbell
  In Paris: ‘The Delirious Museum’

• Frank Close

  • A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down by Robert Laughlin

• Mark Rudman
  Poem: ‘Actor and Director at Twenty’

• Solomon Feferman

  • Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel by Rebecca Goldstein

• Richard Fortey

  • Bursting the Limits of Time by Martin Rudwick

• James Lasdun
  Diary: Salad Days