CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Tariq Ali
• Gerald Dawe
• Terry Eagleton
• Hal Foster
• John Gardner
• Charles Glass
• Eric Hobsbawm
• Maya Jasanoff
• Thomas Jones
• Hilary Mantel
• Charles Nicholl
• Sameer Rahim
• Ian Sansom
• Daniel Soar
• Theo Tait
• John Hartley Williams
• David Wootton

Contents

• Hilary Mantel

  • A Lie about My Father by John Burnside

• Letters
  Christopher Prendergast, Terence Kelly, Evan Riley, Gordon Poole, Ian Birchall, Raymond Clayton, Gerry Harrison, Richard Cummings, J.A. Bosworth

• Charles Nicholl
  The wind comes up out of nowhere: on the trail of Arthur Cravan

• John Hartley Williams
  Poem: ‘On the Money’

• Charles Glass

  • The Secret History of al-Qaida by Abdel Bari Atwan
  • Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror by Michael Scheuer
  • Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden edited by Bruce Lawrence, translated by James Howarth
  • Osama: The Making of a Terrorist by Jonathan Randal

• John Gardner

  • Rhetoric and the Rule of Law: A Theory of Legal Reasoning by Neil MacCormick

• Gerald Dawe
  Poem: ‘Points West’

• Eric Hobsbawm

  • J.D. Bernal: The Sage of Science by Andrew Brown

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Cheney’s Cavalier Way with a Shotgun

• Theo Tait

  • Seven Lies by James Lasdun

• Terry Eagleton

  • Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions by Fredric Jameson

• Daniel Soar

  • Remainder by Tom McCarthy

• David Wootton

  • At Day’s Close: A History of Nighttime by Roger Ekirch
  • Saving the Daylight: Why We Put the Clocks Forward by David Prerau

• Hal Foster
  At the Guggenheim: David Smith

• Sameer Rahim

  • The Drift Latitudes by Jamal Mahjoub

• Maya Jasanoff

  • The Highly Civilised Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian World by Dane Kennedy

• Ian Sansom

  • The Man Called Cash: The Life, Love and Faith of an American Legend by Steve Turner
  • Walk the Line directed by James Mangold

• Tariq Ali
  Diary: Libya during the Cartoon Controversy