Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Peter Campbell
• Stefan Collini
• Jerry Fodor
• Mark Greif
• Tessa Hadley
• Tony Harrison
• Barbara Herrnstein Smith
• J. Hoberman
• August Kleinzahler
• Michael Kulikowski
• Hermione Lee
• Clancy Martin
• David Morley
• Adam Phillips
• Stephen Sedley
• Adam Shatz
• Sanjay Subrahmanyam
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Mark Greif

  • Reborn: Early Diaries, 1947-64 by Susan Sontag, edited by David Rieff

• Letters
  André Bénichou, Karl Sabbagh, John Gretton, George Adams, Bill Gilmour, Marielle Risse, John Scott, Caleb Crain

• Stefan Collini

  • Maurice Bowra: A Life by Leslie Mitchell

• Barbara Herrnstein Smith

  • The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation by Steven Shapin

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: ‘Slumdog Millionaire’

  • Slumdog Millionaire directed by Danny Boyle

• Jerry Fodor

  • Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action and Cognitive Extension by Andy Clark

• Peter Campbell
  At the Royal Academy: Palladio

• Adam Phillips
  In Praise of Difficult Children: In Praise of Difficult Children

• Hermione Lee

  • Collected Stories and Other Writings by Katherine Anne Porter, edited by Darlene Harbour Unrue

• Adam Shatz
  Short Cuts: the Blessed Obama

• Tessa Hadley

  • Happy Families by Carlos Fuentes, translated by Edith Grossman

• Tony Harrison
  Poem: ‘Diary’

• Stephen Sedley

  • Early English Arbitration by Derek Roebuck

• Michael Kulikowski

  • Attila the Hun: Barbarian Terror and the Fall of the Roman Empire by Christopher Kelly

• David Morley
  Poem: ‘Abandoned Christmas Tree Plantation’

• J. Hoberman

  • D.W. Griffith’s ‘The Birth of a Nation’: A History of ‘The Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time’ by Melvyn Stokes

• Sanjay Subrahmanyam

  • After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empire by John Darwin

• August Kleinzahler
  Poem: ‘A Wine Tale’

• Clancy Martin
  Diary: The Case of the Counterfeit Eggs