Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Barrell
• James Buchan
• Peter Campbell
• John Demos
• Jenny Diski
• Terry Eagleton
• Jeremy Harding
• Pankaj Mishra
• Steven Shapin
• Christopher Tayler
• Inigo Thomas
• Adam Thorpe
• Christopher Turner
• Alex de Waal
• John Welch
• John Whitfield

Contents

• Pankaj Mishra
  Getting Rich: in Shanghai

• Letters
  Ian Birchall, Guido Franzinetti, Anthony Fry, Julian Preece, William Whyte, Jim Stewart, John Hodgson, Jenny Chamier Grove, Joy Matkowski, Martin Ward, Gordon Petherbridge, Alex Drace-Francis, Bill Sanderson

• John Welch
  Poem: ‘Beached’

• Terry Eagleton

  • Typecasting: On the Arts and Sciences of Human Inequality by Ewen and Ewen

• Inigo Thomas

  • State of Denial: Bush at War by Bob Woodward

• John Barrell

  • Thomas Paine’s ‘Rights of Man’: A Biography by Christopher Hitchens

• Alex de Waal
  ‘I will not sign’: at the Darfur Peace Talks

• James Buchan

  • Thatcher and Sons: A Revolution in Three Acts by Simon Jenkins

• Jeremy Harding
  Short Cuts: Shot At Dawn

• Christopher Tayler

  • The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford

• Christopher Turner

  • Freud’s Wizard: The Enigma of Ernest Jones by Brenda Maddox

• Peter Campbell
  In Russell Square: exploring Bloomsbury

• Steven Shapin

  • Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates by David Wootton

• John Whitfield

  • Genes in Conflict: The Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements by Austin Burt and Robert Trivers

• Adam Thorpe
  Two Poems

• John Demos

  • Sensory Worlds in Early America by Peter Charles Hoffer

• Jenny Diski
  Diary: The Friendly Spider Programme