CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Neal Ascherson
• David Carpenter
• Mohammed el Gorani
• Richard J. Evans
• Jeremy Harding
• Roger Hodge
• August Kleinzahler
• John Lanchester
• James Romm
• Mattathias Schwartz
• Steven Shapin
• Christopher Tayler
• Keith Thomas
• Jenny Turner
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Neal Ascherson

  • Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe by Norman Davies

• Letters
  Gareth Evans, Brian Slocock, David Seddon, Nafa Tashani, Jacob Mundy, Hugh Roberts, Liz Willis, Suzy Nelson, Roderick Chadwick, Peter Slessenger, Tom Shippey, Harry Watson

• Keith Thomas
  Universities under Attack

• Michael Wood
  Must we pay for Sanskrit?

• Jenny Turner
  As Many Pairs of Shoes as She Likes: On Feminism

• Jeremy Harding
  At the V&A: 50 Years of ‘Private Eye’

• David Carpenter

  • She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England before Elizabeth by Helen Castor

• John Lanchester
  Short Cuts: The Art of Financial Disaster

• Christopher Tayler

  • 1Q84: Book 1 and Book 2 by Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin
  • 1Q84: Book 3 by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel

• Steven Shapin

  • Michael Polanyi and His Generation: Origins of the Social Construction of Science by Mary Jo Nye

• James Romm

  • Rethinking the Other in Antiquity by Erich Gruen

• Mattathias Schwartz

  • Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

• August Kleinzahler
  Poem: ‘Lo Mein’

• Roger Hodge

  • Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanche Tribe by S.C. Gwynne

• Richard J. Evans

  • With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918 by David Stevenson

• Mohammed el Gorani and Jérôme Tubiana
  Diary: Guantánamo