Cover: Anne Rothenstein

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Perry Anderson
• Neal Ascherson
• John Ashbery
• Joanna Biggs
• T.J. Clark
• Linda Colley
• Brian Dillon
• Emily Gould
• Jeremy Harding
• Thomas Keymer
• August Kleinzahler
• Christian Lorentzen
• Ross McKibbin
• Theo Tait
• Christopher Tayler

Contents

• Letters
  David Bromwich, Chris Wheeler, Patrick Skelton, John Gale, Peter Robb, Richard Thorneycroft, Jim Valentine, Owen Bennett-Jones, Simon Darragh, Charles Coutinho, Neil Berry, Bill Lancaster, Len Bates

• Ross McKibbin
  Money and the Love of Money: Crisis of the System

• Linda Colley
  North and South

• Neal Ascherson

  • Ryszard Kapuściński: A Life by Artur Domosławski, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

• John Ashbery
  Poem: ‘A Voice from the Fireplace’

• T.J. Clark
  High-Step with a Bull

  • Picasso Prints: The Vollard Suite

• Thomas Keymer

  • Cruelty and Laughter: Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental 18th Century by Simon Dickie

• Theo Tait

  • Demon Fish: Travels through the Hidden World of Sharks by Juliet Eilperin

• Perry Anderson
  After Nehru

• Christopher Tayler

  • Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain

• Jeremy Harding
  Short Cuts: ‘Magnum Contact Sheets’

• Emily Gould

  • Teach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic’s Search for Health and Healing by Tim Parks
  • The Server by Tim Parks

• Brian Dillon
  At the Hayward: ‘Invisible’

• Joanna Biggs

  • Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag and Angela Davis by Alice Kaplan
  • As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries 1964-80 by Susan Sontag

• August Kleinzahler
  Poem: ‘Tuq-Tuq’

• Christian Lorentzen
  Diary: Are books like nappies?