Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Neal Ascherson
• Alan Bennett
• Peter Campbell
• T.J. Clark
• Jenny Diski
• Susan Eilenberg
• Anne Enright
• August Kleinzahler
• John Lanchester
• Steven Shapin
• Adam Shatz
• Charles Simic
• Bee Wilson
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Steven Shapin
  The Darwin Show

• Letters
  Jacob Ecclestone, Jim McCue, Bob Hanenberg, Charles Lewsen, Martin Sanderson, Malcolm Coad, Peter Dreyer, Andrew McCullough, Wilhelm Schneider, Caroline Williamson, Richard Tagart

• T.J. Clark
  Living Death: Among the Sarcophagi

• Michael Wood

  • The Original of Laura: (Dying is Fun) A Novel in Fragments by Vladimir Nabokov

• Charles Simic
  Two Poems

• Adam Shatz

  • The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk, translated by Maureen Freely

• Neal Ascherson

  • Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment by Stephen Kotkin, with Jan Gross
  • Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire by Victor Sebestyen
  • There Is No Freedom without Bread: 1989 and the Civil War that Brought Down Communism by Constantine Pleshakov
  • 1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe by Mary Elise Sarotte

• John Lanchester
  Short Cuts: Kraft eats Cadbury

• Anne Enright
  Sinking by Inches: Ireland’s Recession

• August Kleinzahler
  Poem: ‘The Exquisite Atmography of Thomas Appletree, Diarist of Edgiock’

• Susan Eilenberg

  • The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes

• Jenny Diski

  • ‘Psycho’ in the Shower: The History of Cinema’s Most Famous Scene by Philip Skerry

• Peter Campbell
  At the Funfair: ‘Winter Wonderland’

• Bee Wilson

  • Perfumes: The A-Z Guide by Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez
  • Chanel: Her Life, Her World, The Woman behind the Legend by Edmonde Charles-Roux, translated by Nancy Amphoux
  • The Allure of Chanel by Paul Morand, translated by Euan Cameron
  • Coco before Chanel directed by Anne Fontaine

• Alan Bennett
  Diary