Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Robert Alter
• Neal Ascherson
• Christopher Beha
• Colin Burrow
• Peter Campbell
• Robert Crawford
• Hal Foster
• Mark Mazower
• Thomas Nagel
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Susan Pedersen
• James Romm
• Mattathias Schwartz
• W.G. Sebald
• Daniel Soar
• Jean Sprackland
• Michael Wood
• James Wood

Contents

• Daniel Soar

  • The Googlisation of Everything (and Why We Should Worry) by Siva Vaidhyanathan
  • In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy
  • I’m Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 by Douglas Edwards

• Letters
  John Heelan, John Stephenson, Jack Adrian, Bill Gilmour, Ollie Brock, Peter Davies, Janet McAllister, J.G.A. Pocock, Elizabeth Crawford, Joe Nuttgens

• Neal Ascherson

  • To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland’s Global Diaspora, 1750-2010 by T.M. Devine
  • The Inner Life of Empires: An 18th-Century History by Emma Rothschild

• Thomas Nagel

  • Assisted Death: A Study in Ethics and Law by L.W. Sumner

• James Wood
  Sent East: Sebald’s ‘Austerlitz’

• W.G. Sebald
  Poem: ‘I Remember’

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’

• Peter Campbell
  At the Royal Academy: Degas

• Christopher Beha

  • The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

• Robert Alter

  • Cain by José Saramago, translated by Margaret Jull Costa

• Andrew O’Hagan
  Short Cuts: Tweeting at an Execution

• Mattathias Schwartz

  • Spills and Spin: The Inside Story of BP by Tom Bergin
  • A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea: The Race to Kill the BP Oil Gusher by Joel Achenbach

• James Romm

  • Heracles to Alexander the Great: Treasures from the Royal Capital of Macedon, a Hellenic Kingdom in the Age of Democracy by Angeliki Kottaridi et al
  • A Companion to Ancient Macedonia edited by Joseph Roisman and Ian Worthington
  • Brill’s Companion to Ancient Macedon: Studies in the Archaeology and History of Macedon, 650 BC–300 AD edited by Robin Lane Fox

• Mark Mazower

  • Sarajevo, 1941-45: Muslims, Christians and Jews in Hitler’s Europe by Emily Greble

• Susan Pedersen

  • Structures and Transformations in Modern British History edited by David Feldman and Jon Lawrence
  • The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain edited by Simon Gunn and James Vernon
  • Classes, Cultures and Politics: Essays on British History for Ross McKibbin edited by Clare Griffiths, John Nott and William Whyte

• Robert Crawford

  • The Rest on the Flight: Selected Poems by Peter Porter

• Colin Burrow

  • Richard Bentley: Poetry and Enlightenment by Kristine Louise Haugen

• Hal Foster
  On Richard Hamilton

• Jean Sprackland
  Diary: In the Mud