Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Burnside
• Philip Connors
• Maya Jasanoff
• Frank Kermode
• Jolyon Leslie
• Hilary Mantel
• David Margolick
• Benjamin Markovits
• Ferdinand Mount
• Paul Myerscough
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Susan Pedersen
• Jonathan Raban
• Steven Shapin
• Adam Shatz
• Charles Simic
• Colm Tóibín
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Letters
  Max Trevitt, Amos Halevy, Stephen Wilson, Daniel Finn, James Sanders, Bruce Molloy, Tim Nau, Peter Dreyer, Christopher Campbell-Howes, George Josephs

• Steven Shapin

  • A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life by Craig Venter

• Ferdinand Mount

  • Balfour: The Last Grandee by R.J.Q. Adams

• Adam Shatz

  • Architect of Global Jihad: The Life of al-Qaida Strategist Abu Musab al-Suri by Brynjar Lia

• John Burnside
  Poem: ‘An Essay Concerning Light’

• Frank Kermode

  • The Resurrection by Geza Vermes

• Susan Pedersen

  • Women against the Vote: Female Anti-Suffragism in Britain by Julia Bush

• Maya Jasanoff

  • Hartly House, Calcutta by Phebe Gibbes

• Colm Tóibín
  The Art of Being Found Out: the need to be revealed

• Andrew O’Hagan
  Short Cuts: Dinner at the Digs

• Hilary Mantel
  Story: ‘Offences against the Person’

• Philip Connors

  • The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

• Charles Simic

  • The Collected Poems by C.P. Cavafy, translated by Evangelos Sachperoglou
  • The Canon by C.P. Cavafy, translated by Stratis Haviaras

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: Bertolucci’s The Conformist

  • The Conformist directed by Bernardo Bertolucci

• Benjamin Markovits

  • The Letters of John Murray to Lord Byron edited by Andrew Nicholson

• Jolyon Leslie
  Money, Lots of Money: Afghanistan

• Jolyon Leslie
  A Short History

• Paul Myerscough
  At Tate Modern: Juan Muñoz

• David Margolick

  • The Havana Mob: Gangsters, Gamblers, Showgirls and Revolutionaries in 1950s Cuba by T.J. English

• Jonathan Raban
  Diary: I’m for Obama