Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Ashbery
• Rosemarie Bodenheimer
• Peter Campbell
• Jenny Diski
• John Gardner
• Peter Godfrey-Smith
• Thomas Jones
• David Kaiser
• Thomas Laqueur
• Bernard Porter
• Madeleine Reeves
• Jenny Turner
• John Hartley Williams
• Bee Wilson
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Jenny Turner
  Who Are They?: The Institute of Ideas

• Letters
  Bernard Waites, Don Coles, William Lamont, Mark Etherton, John Crowfoot, Peter Gillman, Sabah Salih, Henry Finlayson, Neil Robinson

• Bernard Porter

  • Listening to Britain: Home Intelligence Reports on Britain’s Finest Hour May-September 1940 edited by Paul Addison and Jeremy Crang

• Rosemarie Bodenheimer

  • Charles Dickens by Michael Slater

• Jenny Diski

  • The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain Was Poisoned at Home, Work and Play by James Whorton

• John Gardner

  • The Rule of Law by Tom Bingham

• John Hartley Williams
  Poem: ‘The Kirmes Parade’

• Madeleine Reeves
  A Weekend in Osh: In Kyrgyzstan

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: E.O. Wilson’s ‘novel’

• Thomas Laqueur

  • The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood by Didier Fassin and Richard Rechtman, translated by Rachel Gomme

• John Ashbery
  Two Poems

• Michael Wood

  • The Sonnets by Jorge Luis Borges, edited by Stephen Kessler
  • Poems of the Night by Jorge Luis Borges, edited by Efraín Kristal

• Peter Godfrey-Smith

  • What Darwin Got Wrong by Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini

• Bee Wilson

  • Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry by Geoffrey Jones

• Peter Campbell
  At the British Library: ‘Magnificent Maps’

• David Kaiser
  Diary: Aliens