Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Andrew Bacevich
• Emilie Bickerton
• Dinah Birch
• John Bossy
• Peter Campbell
• Amit Chaudhuri
• Robert Crawford
• Thomas Jones
• August Kleinzahler
• Thomas Lynch
• Hilary Mantel
• Ilan Pappe
• Bruce Robbins
• Jacqueline Rose
• Steven Shapin
• Daniel Soar
• Sherry Turkle
• Robert VanderMolen

Contents

• Hilary Mantel

  • Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution by Ruth Scurr

• Letters
  Alan Dershowitz, Frank Solomon, Caroline and Nathan Finkelstein, Yair Evron, Robert Pfaltzgraff, Marion Woolfson, Renee Slater, Jeremy Schreiber, John Gretton, Tom Wengraf, Joseph Palley, Michael Grenfell, Yitzhak Laor, Kenneth Cuno, Eric Hobsbawm, Justin Smith, Jeremy Harding, Elliott Mills, Madeleine St John, Daniel Schiller, Amy Beckett, Anne Hollander

• John Bossy

  • Scourge and Fire: Savonarola and Renaissance Italy by Lauro Martines
  • The Burning of the Vanities: Savonarola and the Borgia Pope by Desmond Seward

• Thomas Lynch

  • Committed to the Cleansing Flame: The Development of Cremation in 19th-Century England by Brian Parsons

• Steven Shapin

  • The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffee House by Brian Cowan
  • Coffee House: A Cultural History by Markman Ellis

• Robert Crawford
  Poem: ‘Beleago’

• Ilan Pappe
  Ingathering: the Israeli election and the ‘demographic problem’

• Bruce Robbins

  • Science of Science and Reflexivity by Pierre Bourdieu, translated by Richard Nice

• Robert VanderMolen
  Poem: ‘Under the Sky’

• Jacqueline Rose

  • Get a Life by Nadine Gordimer

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: An X-Rated Version of Postman Pat

• Dinah Birch

  • The Holy Land in English Culture 1799-1917: Palestine and the Question of Orientalism by Eitan Bar-Yosef

• Peter Campbell
  At the V&A and Tate Modern: Modernist Design

• Andrew Bacevich

  • Leonard Wood: Rough Rider, Surgeon, Architect of American Imperialism by Jack McCallum

• Amit Chaudhuri

  • Selected Poems by Rabindranath Tagore, edited by Sukanta Chaudhuri

• August Kleinzahler

  • The Long and the Short of It: Poems 1955-2005 by Roy Fisher

• Daniel Soar

  • Patrick’s Alphabet by Michael Symmons Roberts

• Emilie Bickerton

  • Chris Marker: Memories of the Future by Catherine Lupton

• Sherry Turkle
  Diary: Tamagotchi Love