Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Perry Anderson
• John Burnside
• M.F. Burnyeat
• Peter Campbell
• Norman Dombey
• P.N. Furbank
• Frank Kermode
• John Lanchester
• Hermione Lee
• Chris McManus
• Rebecca Mead
• Edward Said
• Andrew Saint
• Murray Sayle
• Bernard Williams

Contents

• M.F. Burnyeat

  • Restraining Rage: The Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity by William Harris

• Letters
  David Bishop, Edward Tabor, Jonathan Sinclair-Wilson, S.A. Skinner, Chris Purnell, Christopher Harvie, Bruce Kent, Nicholas Joicey, Graham Hamilton, Keith Flett, James Gollata

• Bernard Williams
  Why Philosophy Needs History: On Truth

• Perry Anderson
  Confronting Defeat: Hobsbawm’s Histories

• Rebecca Mead

  • The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

• Hermione Lee

  • The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch by Anne Enright
  • Clara by Janice Galloway

• John Lanchester
  Short Cuts: Football and Currie

• Frank Kermode

  • Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million by Martin Amis

• Edward Said
  ‘We’ know who ‘we’ are: Palestine, Iraq and ‘Us’

• John Burnside
  Poem: ‘By Kautokeino’

• Peter Campbell
  At Salford Quays: Daniel Libeskind

• Norman Dombey

  • Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Net Assessment
  • Saddam’s Bombmaker: The Daring Escape of the Man who Built Iraq’s Secret Weapon by Khidhir Hamza and Jeff Stein
  • Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Assessment of the British Government

• Andrew Saint

  • An Architect of Promise: George Gilbert Scott Jr (1839-97) and the Late Gothic Revival by Gavin Stamp

• P.N. Furbank

  • Denton Welch: Writer and Artist by James Methuen-Campbell

• Chris McManus

  • Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty by Gerd Gigerenzer

• Murray Sayle
  Diary: The Makiko and Junichiro Show