CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Joanna Biggs
• Michael Byers
• Peter Campbell
• Jenny Diski
• Barbara Everett
• Mark Greif
• Colin Kidd
• John Lanchester
• Ross McKibbin
• Mark Mazower
• R.T. Naylor
• Bernard O’Donoghue
• John Sturrock
• Matthew Sweeney
• Sam Thompson
• David Trotter
• Michael Wood
• Tony Wood

Contents

• John Lanchester

  • The Revenge of Gaia by James Lovelock
  • Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis Summary for Policymakers: Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  • Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning by George Monbiot
  • The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies by Richard Heinberg
  • The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review by Nicholas Stern

• Letters
  Sindre Bangstad, Martin Shaw, Jonathan Harris, Marina Warner, Hermione Lee, Bernard O’Donoghue, Paul Mountain

• Jenny Diski

  • At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches by Susan Sontag, edited by Paolo Dilonardo and Anne Jump, preface by David Rieff
  • A Photographer’s Life 1990-2005 by Annie Leibovitz

• Mark Greif

  • The Velvet Underground by Richard Witts

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies

  • The Lives of Others directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

• Barbara Everett
  Making and Breaking in Shakespeare’s Romances: The Late Plays

• Ross McKibbin
  Defeatism, Defeatism, Defeatism: Ten Years of Blair

• John Sturrock
  Short Cuts: Don't Bother to Read

• Mark Mazower

  • The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American Power by James Traub
  • The Parliament of Man: The United Nations and the Quest for World Government by Paul Kennedy

• Colin Kidd

  • Alexis de Tocqueville: Prophet of Democracy in the Age of Revolution by Hugh Brogan

• David Trotter

  • The Novel: Vol. I: History, Geography and Culture edited by Franco Moretti
  • The Novel: Vol. II: Forms and Themes edited by Franco Moretti

• Joanna Biggs

  • Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka

• Peter Campbell
  At the Barbican: Alvar Aalto

• Sam Thompson

  • The Steep Approach to Garbadale by Iain Banks

• R.T. Naylor

  • Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy by Moisés Naím

• Matthew Sweeney
  Three Poems

• Michael Byers
  Unfrozen Sea: The Arctic Grail

• Bernard O’Donoghue
  Two Poems

• Tony Wood
  Diary: Chechnya