Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Tariq Ali
• John Ashbery
• John Burnside
• Colin Burrow
• Peter Campbell
• Richard Fortey
• Hal Foster
• Christina Gombar
• James Hamilton-Paterson
• Thomas Jones
• Frank Kermode
• Stephen Mulhall
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Jacqueline Rose
• Paul Seabright
• Steven Shapin
• Christopher Tayler
• Tom Vanderbilt

Contents

• James Hamilton-Paterson

  • Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination and the Birth of a World by Oliver Morton

• Letters
  Richard Eyre, Hilary Mantel, Andy Beckett, Bruce Kent, Paul Vaughan, Tom Kuhn, Keith Flett, David Miller, Aidan Hartley, Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen & Philippe Pignarre, Robin Holloway

• Hal Foster

  • Image Duplicator: Roy Lichtenstein and the Emergence of Pop Art by Michael Lobel

• Andrew O’Hagan

  • Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy by Simon Louvish

• Colin Burrow

  • Sir John Harington and the Book as Gift by Jason Scott-Warren

• Jacqueline Rose
  ‘This is not a biography’: Sylvia Plath

• Peter Campbell
  At Tate Britain: Thomas Girtin

• Stephen Mulhall

  • The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life by Jeff McMahan

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Second Novel Anxiety Syndrome

• Richard Fortey

  • Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception and Secret Authorship of ‘Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation’ by James Secord

• John Burnside
  Poem: ‘The Last Man to Speak Ubykh’

• Steven Shapin

  • Eating Right in the Renaissance by Ken Albala
  • Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health by Marion Nestle

• Paul Seabright

  • The Future of Success by Robert Reich

• Christina Gombar

  • Moral Hazard by Kate Jennings

• Frank Kermode

  • The Man Who Walks by Alan Warner

• John Ashbery
  Two Poems

• Christopher Tayler

  • The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton

• Tom Vanderbilt

  • Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago by Eric Klinenberg

• Tariq Ali
  Diary: al-Jazeera