Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Christopher de Bellaigue
• Peter Campbell
• Mark Ford
• Matthew Fraleigh
• Jeremy Harding
• Joanna Innes
• August Kleinzahler
• Adam Mars-Jones
• Richard Murphy
• Susan Pedersen
• Nick Richardson
• David Runciman
• Barry Schwabsky
• Steven Shapin
• Ian Thomson
• Jenny Turner
• James Wood

Contents

• James Wood

  • After Lives: A Guide to Heaven, Hell and Purgatory by John Casey

• Letters
  Adam Roberts, Simon Skinner, Katherine Duncan-Jones, George Roussopoulos, Angela Stock, Rosemary O’Grady, Cal Winslow, Jasper Ungoed-Thomas, Seán Lang, Harold James, Dennis Smith, Penelope Corfield, Matt Grist, Andrew Arends, Edward Pearce, John Hipkin, Richard J. Evans, Nicholas Birns, Edward Luttwak, Dominic Al-Badri

• Steven Shapin

  • After We Die: The Life and Times of the Human Cadaver by Norman Cantor

• Mark Ford
  Poem: ‘Dithering’

• Christopher de Bellaigue
  Money as Weapon: In Afghanistan

• Susan Pedersen

  • Edith Cavell by Diana Souhami

• August Kleinzahler
  Poem: ‘Rain’

• Jeremy Harding
  Short Cuts: Marine Le Pen

• David Runciman

  • Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World by Nicholas Shaxson
  • Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer – and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class by Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson

• Richard Murphy
  Out of Sight: What is a tax haven?

• Barry Schwabsky
  At Bozar: Luc Tuymans

• Joanna Innes

  • Labours Lost: Domestic Service and the Making of Modern England by Carolyn Steedman

• Matthew Fraleigh

  • Japan Rising: The Iwakura Embassy to the USA and Europe by Kume Kunitake, edited by Chushichi Tsuzuki and R. Jules Young

• Jenny Turner

  • Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace by David Lipsky
  • The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel by David Foster Wallace

• Adam Mars-Jones

  • King of the Badgers by Philip Hensher

• Nick Richardson

  • Houdini: Art and Magic by Brooke Kamin Rapaport

• Peter Campbell
  At the V&A: Yohji Yamamoto

• Ian Thomson
  Diary: Assault on the Via Salaria