Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Peter Barham
• Mary Beard
• Peter Campbell
• Anne Carson
• Ian Hacking
• Jonathan Heawood
• Rosemary Hill
• Chloe Hooper
• Robert Irwin
• Dan Jacobson
• Thomas Jones
• Nick Laird
• Lawrence Lessig
• Sameer Rahim
• English Showalter
• Elaine Showalter
• Iain Sinclair
• Alex de Waal
• Slavoj Žižek

Contents

• Mary Beard

  • Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece by Patrick Leigh Fermor
  • Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese by Patrick Leigh Fermor
  • Words of Mercury by Patrick Leigh Fermor, edited by Artemis Cooper

• Letters
  Jacqueline Rose, Pablo Mukherjee, Virginia Tilley, Tony French, Niall Rudd, Martin Axford, Jack Pole, Chris Sansom, Chris McCabe

• Alex de Waal
  Chasing Ghosts: The Failure of Jihad in Africa

• Elaine Showalter and English Showalter

  • In Search of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays on ‘The Bondwoman’s Narrative’ edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr and Hollis Robbins

• Dan Jacobson

  • The Orientalist: In Search of a Man Caught between East and West by Tom Reiss

• Anne Carson
  Poem: ‘Two Translations of Aeschylus’ ‘Agamemnon’ 1072-1330’

• Rosemary Hill

  • Quicksands: A Memoir by Sybille Bedford

• Iain Sinclair
  Museums of Melancholy: Silence on the Euston Road

• Chloe Hooper

  • In Tasmania by Nicholas Shakespeare

• Ian Hacking

  • The 21st-Century Brain: Explaining, Mending and Manipulating the Mind by Steven Rose

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: When is a planet not a planet?

• Peter Barham

  • Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine by Andrew Scull

• Slavoj Žižek

  • What Might Have Been: Imaginary History from 12 Leading Historians edited by Andrew Roberts

• Lawrence Lessig

  • The Success of Open Source by Steven Weber
  • Democratising Innovation by Eric von Hippel

• Nick Laird

  • Collected Poems by Patrick Kavanagh, edited by Antoinette Quinn

• Jonathan Heawood

  • The Rules of Perspective by Adam Thorpe

• Peter Campbell
  In Cambridge: The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West

• Robert Irwin

  • Modern Arabic Fiction: An Anthology edited by Salma Khadra Jayyusi

• Sameer Rahim
  Diary: British Muslims react to the London bombings