Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Neal Ascherson
• Andy Beckett
• Peter Campbell
• Gillian Darley
• Melissa Denes
• Jenny Diski
• Barbara Everett
• Lidija Haas
• Michael Henry
• Joshua Kurlantzick
• Nick Laird
• Thomas Nagel
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Nick Richardson
• Colm Tóibín
• Hugo Williams
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Colm Tóibín

  • The Pope Is Not Gay by Angelo Quattrocchi, translated by Romy Clark Giuliani

• Letters
  Richard Reid, Roger Fieldhouse, John Barker, Peter McGill, Elwyn Jenkins, Daniel Waissbein, Ben Bollig, Mark Etherton, William Flesch, Chris Purnell

• Neal Ascherson

  • Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Biography by Adam Sisman

• Michael Wood

  • L’Eté by Albert Camus
  • Albert Camus: Solitaire et Solidaire by Catherine Camus
  • Albert Camus: Elements of a Life by Robert Zaretsky
  • Albert Camus: Fils d’Alger by Alain Vircondelet

• Hugo Williams
  Poem: ‘I Knew the Bride’

• Jenny Diski

  • The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want: A Book about Noise by Garret Keizer

• Nick Richardson

  • No Such Thing As Silence: John Cage’s 4'33" by Kyle Gann

• Peter Campbell
  At the Whitechapel: Alice Neel

• Lidija Haas

  • Shirley Jackson: Novels and Stories edited by Joyce Carol Oates

• Andrew O’Hagan
  Short Cuts: With the Hackerati

• Melissa Denes

  • The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas

• Gillian Darley

  • Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England by Amanda Vickery

• Andy Beckett

  • 70s Style and Design by Dominic Lutyens and Kirsty Hislop

• Barbara Everett
  Saint Shakespeare

• Nick Laird
  Three Poems

• Thomas Nagel

  • Natural Reflections: Human Cognition at the Nexus of Science and Religion by Barbara Herrnstein Smith

• Joshua Kurlantzick
  Playing the World for Fools: In Burma

• Michael Henry
  Diary: Trials of a Translator