Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Daniel Branch
• Peter Campbell
• Robert Crawford
• Jenny Diski
• Norman Dombey
• Terry Eagleton
• Tessa Hadley
• Eric Hobsbawm
• Michael Hofmann
• David Hollinger
• Thomas Jones
• Hilary Mantel
• Steven Mithen
• Andrew O’Hagan
• James Sanders
• Eliot Weinberger
• O.A. Westad
• Hugo Williams
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Hilary Mantel

  • Chambers Dictionary of the Unexplained edited by Una McGovern

• Letters
  Martha Roth, Alan Myers, Charles Turner, Anthony Rudolf, Glenn Lang, Slavoj Žižek, Ross McKibbin, Stephen Sasse, Eamonn Grogan, Rob Best, John Gretton, Ben Bollig, Valentin Lyubarsky, Donal Ó Drisceoil, Cliff Hawkins, Robert Berold

• Jenny Diski

  • On Ugliness edited by Umberto Eco

• Andrew O’Hagan

  • Crossfire by Andy McNab
  • Strike Back by Chris Ryan

• Eliot Weinberger

  • The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter

• David Hollinger

  • The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics and the Modern West by Mark Lilla

• Hugo Williams
  Three Poems

• Peter Campbell
  At the National Gallery: Good Enough to Eat

• Terry Eagleton

  • Creation: Artists, Gods and Origins by Peter Conrad

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Blogged Down

• Tessa Hadley

  • Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan

• Michael Hofmann

  • The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G.B. Edwards

• Steven Mithen

  • On Deep History and the Brain by Daniel Lord Smail

• Robert Crawford
  Poem: ‘Really’

• Daniel Branch
  At the Polling Station in Kibera: The Elections in Kenya

• O.A. Westad

  • The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World by Vijay Prashad

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: ‘Lust, Caution’

  • Lust, Caution directed by Ang Lee

• James Sanders

  • Evil Hour in Colombia by Forrest Hylton

• Norman Dombey
  Iran’s Bomb: A Revision: Iran’s Bomb: A Revision

• Eric Hobsbawm
  Diary: Memories of Weimar