Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Jonathan Barnes
• Peter Campbell
• Thomas Cohen
• Patrick Collinson
• Brian Dillon
• Maurice Keen
• Frank Kermode
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Hugh Pennington
• David Runciman
• Stephen Sedley
• Nicholas Spice
• Theo Tait
• Jenny Turner
• Louisa Waugh
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Nicholas Spice

  • Greed by Elfriede Jelinek, translated by Martin Chalmers

• Letters
  William Grant, Shego Jinpa, Donald Lopez, Michel Thibaud, Matthew Pires, Brian Vickers, Martin Sanderson, Salah el Serafy, William Vesterman

• Frank Kermode

  • Culture and Sacrifice: Ritual Death in Literature and Opera by Derek Hughes

• Jenny Turner

  • The Collected Stories by Lorrie Moore

• Theo Tait

  • Born Yesterday: The News as a Novel by Gordon Burn

• David Runciman
  The Cattle-Prod Election: The Point of the Polls

• Thomas Cohen

  • Information and Communication in Venice: Rethinking Early Modern Politics by Filippo de Vivo

• Stephen Sedley
  No Ordinary Law: Constitution-Makers

• Andrew O’Hagan
  Short Cuts: from Bethlehem

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: The Devil and Robert Bresson

• Maurice Keen

  • The Fears of Henry IV: The Life of England’s Self-Made King by Ian Mortimer

• Brian Dillon

  • The Inner Touch: Archaeology of a Sensation by Daniel Heller-Roazen

• Hugh Pennington
  Disasters and Disease: The Dangerous Dead

• Jonathan Barnes

  • Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity by David Sedley

• Patrick Collinson

  • Last Witnesses: The Muggletonian History, 1652-1979 by William Lamont

• Peter Campbell
  In Bexhill: Unpopular Culture

• Louisa Waugh
  Diary: Living in Gaza