Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Mary Beard
• Alistair Elliot
• Paul Foot
• Anthony Giddens
• Frank Kermode
• Colin McGinn
• Roy Porter
• Christopher Prendergast
• Tim Radford
• Michael Rogin
• Edward Said
• Colm Tóibín
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Colm Tóibín

  • Thomas Mann: Eros and Literature by Anthony Heilbut
  • Thomas Mann: A Biography by Ronald Hayman
  • Thomas Mann: A Life by Donald Prater

• Letters
  David Wootton, Raphael Samuel, Phil Edwards, James Wood, David Maclagan, Ruth Parkin-Gounelas

• Alistair Elliot
  Poem: ‘Auks in the Minch’

• Christopher Prendergast

  • The Dreyfus Affair: ‘J’Accuse’ and Other Writings by Emile Zola, edited by Alain Pagès, translated by Eleanor Levieux
  • Zola: A Life by Frederick Brown

• Edward Said
  Lost between War and Peace

• Michael Wood

  • Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane

• Frank Kermode

  • About Modern Art: Critical Essays 1948-96 by David Sylvester

• Tim Radford

  • Lethal Legacy: BSE – The Search for Truth by Stephen Dealler
  • BSE: The Facts by Brian Ford
  • Agriculture and Health Committees. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD): Recent Developments
  • Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture by Jeremy Rifkin

• Anthony Giddens

  • Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story by Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski and John Peterson Myers

• Roy Porter

  • Growing Up Poor: Home, School and Street 1870-1914 by Anna Davin

• Colin McGinn

  • Virtues and Reasons: Philippa Foot and Moral Theory edited by Rosalind Hursthouse, Gavin Lawrence and Warren Quinn

• Mary Beard

  • Cambridge Women: Twelve Portraits edited by Edward Shils and Carmen Blacker
  • A Woman in History: Eileen Power 1889-1940 by Maxine Berg

• Paul Foot
  Diary

• Michael Rogin

  • Imagineering Atlanta by Charles Rutheiser