Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• David A. Bell
• Joanna Biggs
• Peter Campbell
• Keith Gessen
• Jeremy Harding
• Rosemary Hill
• Fredric Jameson
• R.W. Johnson
• Benjamin Kunkel
• John Lanchester
• Frances Leviston
• Michael Longley
• Ross McKibbin
• Adam Phillips
• Peter Pomerantsev
• Nick Richardson
• Will Self

Contents

• Peter Pomerantsev
  Putin’s Rasputin

• Letters
  Thomas Szasz, Brian McAvera, Gina Luria Walker, Schuyler Senft-Grupp, Will Smith, Halina Filipowicz, Chris Goldie, Ian Davidson

• Jeremy Harding
  The Deaths Map: At the Mexican Border

• Benjamin Kunkel

  • The Map and the Territory by Michel Houellebecq, translated by Gavin Bowd

• Fredric Jameson

  • Lucky Per by Henrik Pontoppidan, translated by Naomi Lebowitz

• Joanna Biggs
  Who will get legal aid now?: Legal Aid

• Frances Leviston
  Poem: ‘A Shrunken Head’

• John Lanchester
  Short Cuts: #tevezexcuses

• Ross McKibbin
  The Mess They’re In: Labour’s Limited Options

• Rosemary Hill

  • Edith Sitwell: Avant-Garde Poet, English Genius by Richard Greene

• Adam Phillips

  • Adventures in the Orgasmatron: Wilhelm Reich and the Invention of Sex by Christopher Turner

• Keith Gessen
  On Wall Street

• Peter Campbell
  At Tate Britain: John Martin

• Nick Richardson

  • Arnold Schoenberg by Bojan Bujic

• David A. Bell

  • Common Sense: A Political History by Sophia Rosenfeld

• R.W. Johnson
  Angry White Men: Obama’s Electoral Arithmetic

• Michael Longley
  Three Poems

• Will Self
  Diary: Walking out of London