Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Joanna Biggs
• Peter Campbell
• Ben Ehrenreich
• Jonathan Fenby
• Mark Ford
• Jorie Graham
• John Gray
• David Haglund
• Tony Harrison
• Rosemary Hill
• Karma Nabulsi
• Tom Paulin
• Daniel Soar
• David Trotter
• James Wood
• Slavoj Žižek

Contents

• John Gray
  Progressive, like the 1980s: Farewell Welfare State

• Letters
  Stephen Oren, David Griffiths, Marco Sonzogni, Colin Galloway, John Pistelli, Monica Casarotto, Gordon Edwards, Andrew McCulloch, Elliot Tetenbaum

• Joanna Biggs
  On Teesside

• Slavoj Žižek

  • The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor

• Jorie Graham
  Poem: ‘The Bird on My Railing’

• Jonathan Fenby

  • The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China by Hannah Pakula

• James Wood

  • Room by Emma Donoghue

• Ben Ehrenreich

  • The Last Narco: Hunting El Chapo, the World’s Most Wanted Drug Lord by Malcolm Beith

• Mark Ford

  • Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy by Randall Jarrell

• Daniel Soar
  Short Cuts: Terror Plots

• Tom Paulin

  • Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica edited by Anthony Thwaite

• Peter Campbell
  At Tate Modern: Gauguin

• Rosemary Hill

  • Crazy Age: Thoughts on Being Old by Jane Miller

• Tony Harrison
  Poem: ‘Piazza Sannazaro’

• David Trotter

  • Underground Writing: The London Tube from George Gissing to Virginia Woolf by David Welsh

• David Haglund

  • Richard Yates by Tao Lin

• Karma Nabulsi
  Diary: Lament for the Revolution