Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Mary Beard
• John Bossy
• Stefan Collini
• Helen Cooper
• Ian Hacking
• Gary Indiana
• Thomas Jones
• Colin Kidd
• Paul Laity
• John Lanchester
• Tom Lowenstein
• Peter Mair
• Paul Myerscough
• Hugh Pennington
• Simon Schaffer
• Lorna Scott Fox
• John Stammers
• Michael Wood

Contents

• John Lanchester

  • Conrad and Lady Black: Dancing on the Edge by Tom Bower

• Letters
  Donald Jowett, John Black, Sandor Vaci, David Craig, Malcolm Deas, Isobel Grundy, Sabah Salih, David Wootton, Steven Shapin, Kim Phillips-Fein, Peter Lewis, John Sabapathy, Brian Tilbury, Adam Thorpe

• Ian Hacking

  • Strange Harvest: Organ Transplants, Denatured Bodies and the Transformed Self by Lesley Sharp

• Peter Mair

  • Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance by Ian Buruma

• Hugh Pennington
  Lethal Specks: polonium

• John Bossy

  • Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy by Park Honan

• Colin Kidd

  • 1715: The Great Jacobite Rebellion by Daniel Szechi

• Paul Myerscough
  At the Coppermill: Simply Botiful

• Lorna Scott Fox
  The Feminisation of Chile: Return to Santiago

• John Stammers
  Poem: ‘Black Dog’

• Paul Laity
  Short Cuts: Hanging out at River Cottage HQ

• Gary Indiana

  • Lust for Life: On the Writings of Kathy Acker edited by Amy Scholder, Carla Harryman and Avital Ronell

• Thomas Jones

  • The Foreign Correspondent by Alan Furst

• Stefan Collini

  • The Life of Kingsley Amis by Zachary Leader

• Helen Cooper

  • John Skelton and Poetic Authority: Defining the Liberty to Speak by Jane Griffiths

• Tom Lowenstein
  Poem: ‘Conversation with Murasaki’

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: The Prestige

  • The Prestige directed by Christopher Nolan

• Simon Schaffer

  • Pierre Simon Laplace 1749-1827: A Determined Scientist by Roger Hahn

• Mary Beard
  Diary: set in Tunisia