Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Christopher Beha
• Brian Dillon
• David French
• Tessa Hadley
• Jeremy Harding
• Lee Harwood
• Thomas Jones
• John Lanchester
• Christian Lorentzen
• Ross McKibbin
• James Meek
• Evgeny Morozov
• Thomas Penn
• Seamus Perry
• Robin Robertson
• Stephen Sedley
• Adam Shatz
• Christopher Tayler
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Ross McKibbin
  Call that a coalition?

• Letters
  Benedict Birnberg, Sarah Harden, Benjamin Friedman, Mary Higgins, Greg Wilkinson, Nick Wray, Geoffrey Wells, Peter Dreyer, Mat Snow

• John Lanchester
  Marx at 193

• James Meek
  Human Revenue

• Adam Shatz

  • The Patagonian Hare: A Memoir by Claude Lanzmann, translated by Frank Wynne

• Robin Robertson
  Poem: ‘Dionysus in Love’

• Thomas Jones

  • Starman: David Bowie, the Definitive Biography by Paul Trynka
  • The Man Who Sold the World: David Bowie and the 1970s by Peter Doggett

• Stephen Sedley

  • Thomas More’s Trial by Jury edited by Henry Ansgar Kelly, Louis Karlin and Gerard Wegemer

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: ‘The Bad and the Beautiful’

• Thomas Penn

  • Philip of Spain, King of England: The Forgotten Sovereign by Harry Kelsey

• Evgeny Morozov

  • Our Biometric Future: Facial Recognition Technology and the Culture of Surveillance by Kelly Gates

• Lee Harwood
  Poem: ‘Ben’s Photo’

• David French

  • The Dark Defile: Britain’s Catastrophic Invasion of Afghanistan 1838-42 by Diana Preston

• Christian Lorentzen
  Short Cuts: Fact-checking

• Seamus Perry

  • Mysterious Wisdom: The Life and Work of Samuel Palmer by Rachel Campbell-Johnston

• Christopher Beha

  • Traveller of the Century by Andrés Neuman, translated by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia

• Christopher Tayler

  • A Death in the Family: My Struggle: Vol. I by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated by Don Bartlett

• Brian Dillon
  At the V&A: Cecil Beaton

• Tessa Hadley

  • The Horseman’s Word: A Memoir by Roger Garfitt

• Jeremy Harding
  Diary: In Bordeaux