Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Perry Anderson
• Peter Campbell
• Anne Enright
• Caroline Gonda
• Jeremy Harding
• Michael Hofmann
• Frank Kermode
• James Lever
• Glen Newey
• Theo Padnos
• Robin Robertson
• Daniel Soar
• Jonathan Steele
• Anthony Thwaite
• David Trotter
• Ellen Meiksins Wood
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Perry Anderson

  • When China Rules the World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World by Martin Jacques
  • Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State by Yasheng Huang
  • Against the Law: Labour Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt by Ching Kwan Lee

• Letters
  Theo Russell, Andrew Walker, Michael Tanner, John Brennan, Warner Berthoff, Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Allen Esterson, Julian Jackson, Raymond Aronson, Pamela Birley, Andrew Wilton, Mark Roeyer

• Jeremy Harding

  • Paris Under Water: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910 by Jeffrey Jackson
  • Paris Inondé 1910

• Michael Hofmann

  • The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig, translated by Anthea Bell

• Robin Robertson
  Four Poems

• Jonathan Steele

  • Nazarbayev and the Making of Kazakhstan by Jonathan Aitken

• Glen Newey

  • The Idea of Justice by Amartya Sen

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: ‘Avatar’

  • Avatar directed by James Cameron

• Frank Kermode

  • Journeying Boy: The Diaries of the Young Benjamin Britten edited by John Evans

• David Trotter
  The Person in the Phone Booth: Phone Booths

• Daniel Soar
  Short Cuts: Terrorist Databases

• Ellen Meiksins Wood

  • Why Not Socialism? by G.A. Cohen

• Peter Campbell
  En route

• James Lever

  • The Humbling by Philip Roth

• Caroline Gonda

  • The Original ‘Frankenstein’ by Mary Shelley, with Percy Shelley, edited by Charles Robinson

• Theo Padnos
  Anwar Awlaki’s Blog: In Yemen

• Anthony Thwaite
  Two Poems

• Anne Enright
  Diary: Mrs Robinson Repents