Cover: Helen Napper

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Andy Beckett
• Joanna Biggs
• Stephen Burt
• James Camp
• Hal Foster
• Jeremy Harding
• Rosemary Hill
• Ian Jack
• Benjamin Kunkel
• James Meek
• Bernard Porter
• Rebecca Solnit
• Jonathan Steinberg
• Colm Tóibín
• Wang Hui
• Phil Withington
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Colm Tóibín

  • Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar Wilde by Franny Moyle
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition by Oscar Wilde, edited by Nicholas Frankel

• Letters
  Richard Gott, T.J. Clark, Ken Lan, Michael Henry Heim, Thomas Leppard, Tony Ellerbeck, R.W. Johnson, Christopher Goulding, Harry Watson, Philip Priestley

• Ian Jack

  • You Can’t Say That: Memoirs by Ken Livingstone

• Hal Foster
  At MoMA: Cindy Sherman

• Wang Hui
  The Rumour Machine: The Dismissal of Bo Xilai

• Joanna Biggs
  Among the Writers: In Beijing

• Rosemary Hill

  • A Card from Angela Carter by Susannah Clapp

• Andy Beckett

  • Skagboys by Irvine Welsh

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: ‘Once upon a Time in Anatolia’

• Phil Withington

  • God’s Instruments: Political Conduct in the England of Oliver Cromwell by Blair Worden

• Bernard Porter

  • Africa as a Living Laboratory: Empire, Development and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950 by Helen Tilley

• Jeremy Harding
  Short Cuts: The French Election

• Benjamin Kunkel

  • Paper Promises: Money, Debt and the New World Order by Philip Coggan
  • Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber

• James Meek
  The Debt Quilt

• Jonathan Steinberg

  • Our Fritz: Emperor Frederick III and the Political Culture of Imperial Germany by Frank Lorenz Müller

• James Camp

  • Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks

• Stephen Burt

  • Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century by Marjorie Perloff
  • Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age by Kenneth Goldsmith
  • Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing edited by Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith
  • Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004, The Joy of Cooking: [Airport Novel Musical Poem Painting Film Photo Hallucination Landscape] by Tan Lin

• Rebecca Solnit
  Diary: In Fukushima