Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• T.J. Clark
• Stefan Collini
• Jo Glanville
• Lavinia Greenlaw
• Tobias Gregory
• Jeremy Harding
• Eric Hobsbawm
• Thomas Jones
• David Kaiser
• Thomas Laqueur
• Adam Phillips
• Thomas Powers
• Corey Robin
• Stephen Walsh
• Marina Warner
• Geoffrey Wheatcroft

Contents

• Thomas Powers

  • Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable

• Letters
  Sarah Gellner, Diana Wallace, Stephen Burt, Louise Hirsch, Alex Lockwood, S.C. McFarlane, Stephen Sedley, Christopher Allen, Michael Robertson, Joe Kerrigan

• Corey Robin
  The War on Tax: Downgrading Obama

• Stefan Collini
  From Robbins to McKinsey: The Dismantling of the Universities

  • Higher Education: Students at the Heart of the System

• Jo Glanville
  ‘Auntie Mabel doesn’t give a toss about Serbia’: The World Service

• Eric Hobsbawm

  • Scientist Spies: A Memoir of My Three Parents and the Atom Bomb by Paul Broda

• Thomas Laqueur

  • Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq by John Dower

• David Kaiser
  Short Cuts: The Higgs Boson

• Lavinia Greenlaw
  Poem: ‘Actaeon’

• Geoffrey Wheatcroft

  • Crimea: The Last Crusade by Orlando Figes

• T.J. Clark
  At Dulwich: Poussin and Twombly

• Adam Phillips

  • Byron in Geneva: That Summer of 1816 by David Ellis

• Marina Warner
  At the Hayward: Tracey Emin

• Tobias Gregory

  • The Plain Man’s Pathways to Heaven: Kinds of Christianity in Post-Reformation England, 1570-1640 by Christopher Haigh

• Thomas Jones

  • State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

• Stephen Walsh

  • Ravel by Roger Nichols

• Jeremy Harding
  Diary: In Palestine