Cover: Alexander Gorlizki

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Perry Anderson
• John Burnside
• Stephen Burt
• Helen Deutsch
• Brian Dillon
• Jenny Diski
• Richard J. Evans
• Daisy Fried
• Jeremy Harding
• Thomas Jones
• Gideon Lewis-Kraus
• Christian Lorentzen
• Jan-Werner Müller
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Tom Pickard
• Denise Riley
• Daniel Soar
• Michael Wood
• Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Contents

• Jeremy Harding
  Europe at Bay: The Immigration Battle

• Letters
  Jenny Turner, Keith Hopper, Chris Walker, Geoffrey Heptonstall, Salah el Serafy, Charles Coutinho, R. Jakob Cambria, Bob Hall, Duncan Scrymgeour, Claire Tomalin, Angus MacDonald, Jane Morris

• Daisy Fried
  Poem: ‘The Spirit Award’

• Jenny Diski

  • Memory: Fragments of a Modern History by Alison Winter

• Denise Riley
  Poem: ‘A Part Song’

• Richard J. Evans

  • German Colonialism: A Short History by Sebastian Conrad

• Jan-Werner Müller
  What do Germans think about when they think about Europe?

• Perry Anderson

  • Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra Vogel
  • On China by Henry Kissinger
  • The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China by Jay Taylor

• John Burnside
  Alone

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Costa Concordia

• Christian Lorentzen

  • The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories by Don DeLillo

• Tom Pickard
  Poem: ‘Fiends Fell Journals’

• Brian Dillon
  At the MK: Daria Martin

• Stephen Burt

  • Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-10 by Adrienne Rich
  • A Human Eye: Essays on Art in Society 1997-2008 by Adrienne Rich

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: ‘The Artist’

• Helen Deutsch

  • Samuel Johnson: A Life by David Nokes
  • Selected Writings by Samuel Johnson, edited by Peter Martin
  • The Brothers Boswell: A Novel by Philip Baruth
  • The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. by John Hawkins, edited by O.M. Brack

• Ruth Bernard Yeazell

  • The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination by Fiona MacCarthy

• Gideon Lewis-Kraus

  • Sex, Murder and the Meaning of Life: A Psychologist Investigates How Evolution, Cognition and Complexity Are Revolutionising Our View of Human Nature by Douglas Kenrick
  • Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris
  • The Fair Society: The Science of Human Nature and the Pursuit of Social Justice by Peter Corning

• Daniel Soar
  At the Royal Academy: Hockney

• Andrew O’Hagan
  Diary: At the Olympic Park