Cover: Rupert Thomas

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Tariq Ali
• Rachel Aviv
• David Bromwich
• John Burnside
• Hal Foster
• Thomas Jones
• J. Robert Lennon
• Adam Mars-Jones
• Ferdinand Mount
• John Pemble
• Bernard Porter
• Colin Smith
• Theo Tait
• Alex de Waal
• Michael Wood
• Slavoj Žižek

Contents

• Adam Mars-Jones

  • Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson

• Letters
  Beatrix Campbell, Jim Valentine, Claire Tomalin, Mark Bostridge, Deborah Friedell, Martin Boycott-Brown, John Tusa, Bernard Richards, Patrick Renshaw, Keith Johnson, John Amson, Alan Penny, Susan Williams, Rolf Rembe, Derek Robinson, Luke Harding, Donald Sassoon

• Slavoj Žižek
  The Revolt of the Salaried Bourgeoisie: The New Proletariat

• David Bromwich

  • An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War by J. Hoberman

• Rachel Aviv

  • The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion by Hugh Urban

• Alex de Waal
  Remember Alem Bekagn: Addis Ababa

• John Burnside
  Two Poems

• Bernard Porter

  • Cry Havoc by Simon Mann

• Colin Smith
  Short Cuts: Carlos the Jackal

• John Pemble

  • The Ascent of the Detective: Police Sleuths in Victorian and Edwardian England by Haia Shpayer-Makov

• Ferdinand Mount

  • Collected Ghost Stories by M.R. James

• Michael Wood

  • Peake’s Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings of Mervyn Peake edited by Maeve Gilmore
  • The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
  • Titus Awakes by Maeve Gilmore and Mervyn Peake
  • Complete Nonsense by Mervyn Peake
  • A Book of Nonsense by Mervyn Peake

• Thomas Jones

  • Zone One by Colson Whitehead

• J. Robert Lennon

  • The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach

• Hal Foster
  At MoMA: Diego Rivera

• Theo Tait

  • There but for the by Ali Smith

• Tariq Ali
  Diary: In Pyongyang