Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Neal Ascherson
• Amit Chaudhuri
• T.J. Clark
• Jenny Diski
• Terry Eagleton
• Howard Hotson
• R.W. Johnson
• Jackson Lears
• Donald MacKenzie
• Daljit Nagra
• Graham Robb
• Andrew Ross
• Lorna Scott Fox
• Stephen W. Smith
• Christopher Tayler
• Keith Thomas

Contents

• Jackson Lears

  • A World on Fire: An Epic History of Two Nations Divided by Amanda Foreman

• Letters
  R.W. Johnson, Ella Raff, Charles Lindholm, Pauline and Anthony Freeman, Richard Hilken, Matthias Tomczak, John Havelock, Stephen Lovesey, Barry Supple

• Neal Ascherson

  • Passport to Peking: A Very British Mission to Mao’s China by Patrick Wright

• Stephen W. Smith
  The Story of Laurent Gbagbo: Gbagbo

• R.W. Johnson
  Post-Post-Struggle: South Africa’s Elections

• Keith Thomas

  • The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity and Memory in Early Modern Britain and Ireland by Alexandra Walsham

• Daljit Nagra
  Poem: ‘A Ballad for Bopoluchi’

• Donald MacKenzie
  How to Make Money in Microseconds: Algo-Sniffing

• Howard Hotson
  Don’t Look to the Ivy League

• Christopher Tayler
  Short Cuts: The School of Life

• Terry Eagleton

  • Long Time, No See by Dermot Healy

• Lorna Scott Fox

  • Books Burn Badly by Manuel Rivas, translated by Jonathan Dunne

• Graham Robb

  • Monsters of the Gévaudan: The Making of a Beast by Jay Smith

• Jenny Diski

  • Tough without a Gun: The Extraordinary Life of Humphrey Bogart by Stefan Kanfer

• T.J. Clark
  At the V&A: ‘The Cult of Beauty’

• Andrew Ross

  • Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy by Ross Perlin

• Amit Chaudhuri
  Diary: In Calcutta