Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Neal Ascherson
• Uri Avnery
• Patrick Cockburn
• Stefan Collini
• Terry Eagleton
• Jeremy Harding
• Maya Jasanoff
• Matthew Kelly
• Lawrence Rosen
• Steven Shapin
• Rebecca Solnit
• Nicholas Spice
• Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Contents

• Steven Shapin

  • Au Revoir to All That: The Rise and Fall of French Cuisine by Michael Steinberger

• Letters
  Eliot Weinberger, Peter Godfrey-Smith, John Hartley Williams, Philip Hensher, Stuart Jay Silverman, Charles Coutinho, Don Locke, Dominic Al-Badri, Mike Connelly, Steve Rowse, Adriaan Sonke, Korintian Delaplaja, Richard Hewlings

• Stefan Collini

  • Shades of Greene: One Generation of an English Family by Jeremy Lewis

• Jeremy Harding
  Short Cuts: Basil Davidson

• Terry Eagleton

  • Newman’s Unquiet Grave: The Reluctant Saint by John Cornwell

• Matthew Kelly

  • Eighteenth-Century Ireland: The Isle of Slaves by Ian McBride

• Nicholas Spice

  • Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey

• Neal Ascherson
  At the Ashmolean: ‘The Lost World of Old Europe’

• Maya Jasanoff

  • Atlantic Families: Lives and Letters in the Later 18th Century by Sarah Pearsall

• Ruth Bernard Yeazell

  • Sargent’s Daughters: The Biography of a Painting by Erica Hirshler

• Lawrence Rosen

  • Pashas: Traders and Travellers in the Islamic World by James Mather

• Patrick Cockburn

  • Beware of Small States: Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East by David Hirst
  • The Ghosts of Martyrs Square: An Eyewitness Account of Lebanon’s Life Struggle by Michael Young

• Uri Avnery
  In the Knesset

• Rebecca Solnit
  Diary: After the Oil Spill