Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Glen Bowersock
• M.F. Burnyeat
• Peter Campbell
• Patrick Cockburn
• Patrick Collinson
• Robert Crawford
• Peter Hallward
• Rosemary Hill
• R.W. Johnson
• Thomas Jones
• August Kleinzahler
• Yonatan Mendel
• Tom Shippey
• Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
• Susan Wicks
• Michael Wood

Contents

• M.F. Burnyeat

  • Pythagoras: His Life, Teaching and Influence by Christoph Riedweg, translated by Steven Rendall
  • Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans: A Brief History by Charles Kahn

• Letters
  John Richmond, Michael Williams, Anders Stephanson, Gerard McBurney, Martin Harris, Cleveland Moffett, George Hornby, Jeremy Harte, Paul Driver

• Michael Wood

  • The Echo Maker by Richard Powers

• Peter Hallward
  An Interview with Jean-Bertrand Aristide: an interview with Haiti's former president

• Peter Campbell
  At the White Cube: Anselm Kiefer

• Patrick Cockburn
  Nowhere to Hide: a report from Iraq

• Glen Bowersock

  • Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilisations by Martin Goodman

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: Kurosawa

• August Kleinzahler
  Poem: ‘Sleeping It Off in Rapid City’

• Tom Shippey

  • Medieval Schools: From Roman Britain to Renaissance England by Nicholas Orme

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Caesar’s Birthday

• Patrick Collinson

  • John Wyclif: Myth and Reality by G.R. Evans

• Robert Crawford

  • George Mackay Brown: The Life by Maggie Fergusson
  • The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown edited by Archie Bevan and Brian Murray

• Rosemary Hill

  • Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear

• Susan Wicks
  Two Poems

• Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

  • Melancholia’s Dog by Alice Kuzniar

• R.W. Johnson
  In Time of Famine: In Zimbabwe

• Yonatan Mendel
  Diary: at the Herzliya Conference