Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Peter Campbell
• Frank Close
• Craig Clunas
• Eamon Duffy
• Jeremy Harding
• Frank Kermode
• John Kerrigan
• Jean de La Fontaine
• Alison Light
• Ferdinand Mount
• Charles Nicholl
• Lara Pawson
• Gordon Pirie
• Jonathan Raban
• David Runciman
• Steven Shapin
• Henry Siegman
• Daniel Soar
• Peter Thonemann

Contents

• Charles Nicholl

  • The Fox and the Flies: The World of Joseph Silver, Racketeer and Psychopath by Charles van Onselen

• Letters
  Augustus Young, Andreas Wesemann, W.G. Runciman, George Poles, Michael Goldsmith, Sean Gallagher, John Sutherland, Philip Booth

• David Runciman

  • The British Constitution by Anthony King

• Jeremy Harding

  • Praised Be Our Lords: The Autobiography by Régis Debray, translated by John Howe

• Henry Siegman
  Gaza’s Future: Breaching the Barrier

• Jonathan Raban

  • We Are Now Beginning Our Descent by James Meek

• John Kerrigan

  • Louis MacNeice: Collected Poems edited by Peter McDonald
  • Louis MacNeice: Selected Poems edited by Michael Longley
  • I Crossed the Minch by Louis MacNeice
  • The Strings Are False: An Unfinished Autobiography by Louis MacNeice, edited by E.R. Dodds

• Frank Kermode

  • The Complete Works of W.H. Auden. Vol. III: Prose, 1949-55 edited by Edward Mendelson

• Ferdinand Mount

  • As I Was Going to St Ives: A Life of Derek Jackson by Simon Courtauld

• Daniel Soar
  Short Cuts: the Arts Council

• Peter Thonemann

  • Intellect and Character in Victorian England: Mark Pattison and the Invention of the Don by H.S. Jones

• Craig Clunas

  • Journey to the East: The Jesuit Mission to China, 1579-1724 by Liam Matthew Brockey

• Peter Campbell
  At the Royal Academy: From Russia

• Eamon Duffy
  Rolling Back the Reformation: Bloody Mary’s Church

• Steven Shapin

  • Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine and Science in the Dutch Golden Age by Harold Cook

• Frank Close

  • Travelling at the Speed of Thought: Einstein and the Quest for Gravitational Waves by Daniel Kennefick

• Jean de La Fontaine translated by Gordon Pirie
  Poem: ‘The Eagle and the Beetle’

• Lara Pawson

  • Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil by Nicholas Shaxson
  • Oil Wars edited by Mary Kaldor, Terry Lynn Karl and Yahia Said
  • Untapped: The Scramble for Africa’s Oil by John Ghazvinian

• Alison Light
  Diary: In Portsmouth