Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Peter Campbell
• Issandr El Amrani
• Jerry Fodor
• Richard Fortey
• Naomi Fry
• Scott Hames
• R.W. Johnson
• James Meek
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Ruth Padel
• Thomas Powers
• Hilary Rose
• Jordan Sand
• Stephen Sedley
• Will Self
• Michael Wood

Contents

• James Meek
  In the Sorting Office

• Letters
  Thomas Docherty, Richard Bowring, Alexander Murray, Stanley Wells, Simon Darragh, C.K. Stead, Ralph W. Reed, Garth Clarke, Andrew Burt, Marian Fowles

• Will Self

  • Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next by John Kasarda and Greg Lindsay

• Stephen Sedley

  • The Oxford History of the Laws of England 1820-1914: Vol. XI, English Legal System; Vol. XII, Private Law; Vol. XIII, Fields of Development edited by William Cornish et al

• Richard Fortey

  • The Species Seekers: Heroes, Fools and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth by Richard Conniff

• Peter Campbell
  In the Cave

• Hilary Rose and Steven Rose

  • Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences by Rebecca Jordan-Young

• Issandr El Amrani
  Is there a Libya?

• Andrew O’Hagan
  Short Cuts: On the Bus

• Thomas Powers

  • Autobiography of Mark Twain Vol. I edited by Harriet Elinor Smith et al

• Jerry Fodor

  • Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind by Robert Kurzban

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: ‘Battleship Potemkin’

• Scott Hames

  • The Stars in the Bright Sky by Alan Warner

• Ruth Padel
  Two Poems

• Naomi Fry

  • Great House by Nicole Krauss

• R.W. Johnson

  • Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb 1939-49 by Jim Baggott
  • The Twilight of the Bombs: Recent Challenges, New Dangers and the Prospects for a World without Nuclear Weapons by Richard Rhodes
  • Eliminating Nuclear Threats: A Practical Agenda for Global Policymakers by Gareth Evans and Yoriko Kawaguchi

• Jordan Sand
  Diary: In Tokyo