Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Tariq Ali
• John Barnie
• Peter Campbell
• Brian Dillon
• Jenny Diski
• Deborah Friedell
• Robert Hanks
• Geoffrey Hawthorn
• R.W. Johnson
• August Kleinzahler
• Mahmood Mamdani
• Seamus Perry
• Jonathan Rée
• Steven Shapin
• Charles Simic
• Iain Sinclair
• Slavoj Žižek

Contents

• Iain Sinclair
  The Raging Peloton: Boris Bikes

• Letters
  Irina Filatova, Shirley Glade, Bernard Richards, Maurice Pomerantz, John Harringay, David Elstein, Barry Jones, Eliot Weinberger, Huw Kyffin

• Slavoj Žižek
  Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks: Gentlemen of the Left

• Tariq Ali
  Salman Taseer Remembered

• Peter Campbell
  At Dulwich Picture Gallery: Norman Rockwell

• Seamus Perry

  • The Major Works by Alfred Tennyson, edited by Adam Roberts

• R.W. Johnson

  • David Lloyd George: The Great Outsider by Roy Hattersley

• John Barnie
  Our Guy: Blair’s Style

• Steven Shapin

  • William Petty and the Ambitions of Political Arithmetic by Ted McCormick

• Jenny Diski
  Short Cuts: Google’s Ngram Viewer

• Jonathan Rée

  • Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World’s Greatest Scientist by Thomas Levenson

• August Kleinzahler
  Poem: ‘Snow’

• Geoffrey Hawthorn

  • Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilisation by John Searle

• Robert Hanks

  • The Devil Is a Gentleman: The Life and Times of Dennis Wheatley by Phil Baker

• Brian Dillon
  At Victoria Miro: Francesca Woodman

• Deborah Friedell

  • Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family by Condoleezza Rice

• Mahmood Mamdani
  The Invention of the Indigène: Congo Explained

• Charles Simic
  Diary: New England in the Recession