CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Tariq Ali
• John Borneman
• Peter Campbell
• Patrick Cockburn
• Caleb Crain
• Mark Ford
• Caroline Fraser
• Simon Jenkins
• Mark Kishlansky
• Elisabeth Ladenson
• Thomas Laqueur
• Alison Light
• Seamus Perry
• Craig Raine
• Daniel Soar
• Marina Warner

Contents

• Thomas Laqueur

  • The Civil War and the Limits of Destruction by Mark Neely
  • This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust

• Letters
  R.W. Johnson, Terence Ranger, Matthias Tomczak, Mahmood Mamdani, Mark Gevisser, J.G.A. Pocock, Robert Picciotto, James Cuno, Edward Luttwak, Mark Bostridge, Paul Kriwaczek

• Peter Campbell
  At the British Museum: Babylon

• Patrick Cockburn
  America Concedes

• John Borneman

  • The Veil: Women Writers on Its History, Lore and Politics by Jennifer Heath

• Mark Ford
  Poem: ‘The Death of Petronius’

• Marina Warner

  • The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights translated by Malcolm Lyons, with Ursula Lyons
  • ‘The Arabian Nights’ in Historical Context: Between East and West edited by Saree Makdisi and Felicity Nussbaum

• Alison Light

  • Bloomsbury Ballerina: Lydia Lopokova, Imperial Dancer and Mrs John Maynard Keynes by Judith Mackrell

• Daniel Soar
  Short Cuts: Books of the Year of the Year

• Elisabeth Ladenson

  • Memoirs by Hortense Mancini and Marie Mancini, edited and translated by Sarah Nelson

• Mark Kishlansky

  • The Long Parliament of Charles II by Annabel Patterson

• Craig Raine
  Poem: ‘Those No-Doubt-About-It Infidelity Blues’

• Simon Jenkins

  • The Duel: Castlereagh, Canning and Deadly Cabinet Rivalry by Giles Hunt

• Seamus Perry

  • William Wordsworth’s ‘The Prelude’: A Casebook edited by Stephen Gill

• Caleb Crain

  • Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe edited by K. Michael Hays and Dana Miller

• Caroline Fraser

  • Red Mandarin Dress by Qiu Xiaolong

• Tariq Ali
  Diary: Murder in the Family