Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Julian Bell
• Robin Blackburn
• Colin Burrow
• Peter Campbell
• Jenny Diski
• Wendy Doniger
• Frank Kermode
• John Lanchester
• R.F. Langley
• Tom Nairn
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Bridget Riley
• James C. Scott
• Stephen Sedley
• Roger Southall
• James Wood
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Stephen Sedley

  • The New British Constitution by Vernon Bogdanor

• Letters
  Benedict Birnberg, Alan Harvie, Mark Amadeus Notturno, Granville Williams, Julian Preece, Sylvia McLain, Harry Stopes, Derek Robinson, Petter Næss, Stephen Richards, Geoffrey Elliott

• James Wood

  • The Children’s Book by A.S. Byatt

• Frank Kermode

  • Summertime by J.M. Coetzee

• Roger Southall

  • South Africa’s Brave New World: The Beloved Country since the End of Apartheid by R.W. Johnson

• R.F. Langley
  Poem: ‘Practical Myth-Making’

• Colin Burrow

  • ‘The Testament of Cresseid’ and ‘Seven Fables’ by Robert Henryson, translated by Seamus Heaney

• Wendy Doniger

  • The Mahabharata translated by John Smith

• Bridget Riley
  At the End of My Pencil: My Lines

• Julian Bell

  • Splendours and Miseries of the Brain: Love, Creativity and the Quest for Human Happiness by Semir Zeki
  • Neuroarthistory: From Aristotle and Pliny to Baxandall and Zeki by John Onians
  • Echo Objects: The Cognitive Work of Images by Barbara Maria Stafford

• Andrew O’Hagan

  • K Blows Top by Peter Carlson

• John Lanchester
  Short Cuts: Caster Semenya

• Tom Nairn

  • Marching to the Fault Line: The 1984 Miners’ Strike and the Death of Industrial Britain by Francis Beckett and David Hencke
  • Shafted: The Media, the Miners’ Strike and the Aftermath edited by Granville Williams

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: ‘District 9’

  • District 9 directed by Neill Blomkamp

• James C. Scott

  • Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin

• Peter Campbell
  At the Natural History Museum: The Darwin Centre

• Jenny Diski

  • Family Newspapers?: Sex, Private Life and the British Popular Press 1918-78 by Adrian Bingham

• Robin Blackburn
  Diary: In Haiti