Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Tariq Ali
• Elif Batuman
• Peter Campbell
• Stefan Collini
• Billy Collins
• Robert Crawford
• James Davidson
• Jenny Diski
• Carl Elliott
• Wynne Godley
• Jackson Lears
• Elizabeth Lowry
• Karl Miller
• Glen Newey
• David Nirenberg
• Adam Phillips
• Jacqueline Rose
• Steven Shapin
• Adam Shatz
• Michael Wood
• James Wood

Contents

• Elif Batuman

  • The Programme Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing by Mark McGurl

• Letters
  Emily Cole, Elliott Prasse-Freeman, Joshua Kurlantzick, John Davis, Bernard Richards, Thomas Laqueur, Scott Haas, Thomas Dowling, Mohsen Shahmanesh, Alexander Zevin, James Bowen, Alan Lipschitz

• Memories of Frank Kermode

• Steven Shapin

  • Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and The World He Made Up by K.C. Cole

• Jackson Lears

  • Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes

• Robert Crawford
  Two Poems

• Peter Campbell
  At Tate Britain: Eadweard Muybridge

• Glen Newey

  • On Evil by Terry Eagleton
  • A Philosophy of Evil by Lars Svendsen, translated by Kerri Pierce

• Adam Shatz
  Short Cuts: Israel and Iran

• James Davidson

  • A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names. Vol. V.A Coastal Asia Minor: Pontos to Ionia edited by T. Corsten

• Billy Collins
  Two Poems

• Carl Elliott

  • Medical Research for Hire: The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials by Jill Fisher
  • When Experiments Travel: Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects by Adriana Petryna
  • The Professional Guinea Pig: Big Pharma and the Risky World of Human Subjects by Roberto Abadie

• Tariq Ali
  ‘What does one do?’: The Floods in Pakistan

• David Nirenberg

  • Maimonides in His World by Sarah Stroumsa

• Elizabeth Lowry

  • Tinkers by Paul Harding

• Jenny Diski
  Diary: Happiness