Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
• Peter Campbell
• Lizzy Davies
• Terry Eagleton
• Deborah Friedell
• James Macdonald
• James Meek
• Pankaj Mishra
• Bernard Porter
• Adam Shatz
• Christopher Tayler
• Colm Tóibín
• Mary-Kay Wilmers
• Michael Wood
• Patrick Wright

Contents

• Adam Shatz

  • Claude Levi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory by Patrick Wilcken

• Letters
  Colin Leys, Richard Knights, Christopher Belshaw, Chris Wheeler, Boyd Hilton, David Craig, Roy Kift

• Bernard Porter

  • The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China by Julia Lovell

• Pankaj Mishra

  • Civilisation: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson

• Colm Tóibín

  • House of Exile: War, Love and Literature, from Berlin to Los Angeles by Evelyn Juers

• Mary-Kay Wilmers

  • Blue Nights by Joan Didion

• James Meek
  Short Cuts: In the Ghost Library

• Peter Campbell

  • Rooms with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century by Sabine Rewald

• Christopher Tayler

  • House of Holes by Nicholson Baker

• Terry Eagleton

  • Crusoe: Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox and the Creation of a Myth by Katherine Frank
  • Moll: The Life and Times of Moll Flanders by Siân Rees

• James Macdonald

  • Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World by William Cohan

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies

• Lizzy Davies

  • The Night Cleaner by Florence Aubenas, translated by Andrew Brown

• Deborah Friedell
  At the National Portrait Gallery: ‘The First Actresses’

• Patrick Wright

  • Hamish Henderson: A Biography. Vol. I: The Making of the Poet (1919-53) by Timothy Neat
  • Hamish Henderson: A Biography. Vol. II: Poetry Becomes People (1954-2002) by Timothy Neat

• Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
  Diary: In Somalia