CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Peter Campbell
• John Christensen
• Amanda Claybaugh
• Jerry Fodor
• Thomas Jones
• Frank Kermode
• Paul Laity
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Jessica Olin
• Matthew Reynolds
• Robin Robertson
• David Stevenson
• Theo Tait
• Pamela Thomas
• Christopher Turner
• Bee Wilson

Contents

• Andrew O’Hagan
  A Journey in the South: in New Orleans

• Letters
  Tony Barrell, Richard Guy, Alasdair Mackenzie, Adrian Tahourdin, David Elstein, Colin Armstrong, Peter Davidson and Joanna Kavenna, Willie Thompson, Jonathan Cook, Yisreal Medad, Ira Katznelson

• Frank Kermode

  • On Beauty by Zadie Smith

• Thomas Jones

  • Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala

• Robin Robertson
  Two Poems

• Theo Tait

  • Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie

• Jessica Olin

  • Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld

• John Christensen

  • Capitalism’s Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System by Raymond Baker

• Paul Laity
  Short Cuts: worst case scenarios

• David Stevenson

  • The Lights that Failed: European International History 1919-33 by Zara Steiner

• Christopher Turner

  • Freud’s Free Clinics: Psychoanalysis and Social Justice 1918-38 by Elizabeth Ann Danto

• Jerry Fodor

  • The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body by Steven Mithen

• Matthew Reynolds

  • Disaffections: Complete Poems 1930-50 by Cesare Pavese, translated by Geoffrey Brock
  • The Faber Book of 20th-Century Italian Poems edited by Jamie McKendrick

• Peter Campbell
  Open House: looking through other people’s windows

• Amanda Claybaugh

  • William Dean Howells: A Writer’s Life by Susan Goodman and Carl Dawson

• Bee Wilson

  • The Oldest Cuisine in the World: Cooking in Mesopotamia by Jean Bottéro, translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan

• Pamela Thomas
  Diary: tea with Marshal Tito