Reviews: Animal Encounters: Contacts and Concepts in Medieval Britain, Reading Literature Historically: Drama and Poetry from Chaucer to the Reformation, Rethinking Historicism from Shakespeare to Milton, Travel Writing and the Natural World, 1768–1840, Female Gothic Histories: Gender, History and the Gothic, Roomscape: Women Writers in the British Museum from George Eliot to Virginia Woolf, Conrad's Secrets, British Writers and MI5 Surveillance, 1930–1960, the Covert Sphere: Secrecy, Fiction & the National Security State, on the Ruins of Modernity: New Chicago Renaissance from Wright to Fair, the Black Chicago Renaissance, Reading the Ruins: Modernism, Bombsites and British Culture. Issue 2 (November 2013) - Blurton, Heather; Turner, Marion; Parvini, Neema; Leask, Nigel; Liggins, Emma; Snaith, Anna; Baxter, Katherine Isobel; Goodman, Sam; Courage, Richard A.; Rau, Petra