Cover: Anne Rothenstein

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Neal Ascherson
• Julian Bell
• Matthew Bevis
• Thomas Jones
• August Kleinzahler
• Michael Kulikowski
• Adam Mars-Jones
• Jonathan Meades
• Karl Miller
• John Pemble
• Thomas Powers
• Robin Robertson
• Corey Robin
• David Runciman
• John Simon
• David Simpson
• Astra Taylor
• Stephen Walsh
• Emily Witt

Contents

• Thomas Powers

  • The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac by Joyce Johnson

• Letters
  James Loxley, Anna Groundwater, Julie Sanders, Ollie Brock, Raja Shehadeh, Chris Osman, Gwyn Carney, David McDowall, Neal Ascherson, Hamish MacGibbon, Tony Dennis, Donald Friedman, Paul Denman, Keith Ovenden

• Robin Robertson
  Poem: ‘Dionysus and the Maiden’

• David Runciman

  • The Occupy Handbook edited by Janet Byrne

• Astra Taylor
  On Wall Street

• John Pemble

  • Dying for Victorian Medicine: English Anatomy and Its Trade in the Dead Poor, c.1834-1929 by Elizabeth Hurren
  • Dickens and the Workhouse: Oliver Twist and the London Poor by Ruth Richardson

• Karl Miller
  Eric Hobsbawm

• Julian Bell

  • Florence and Baghdad: Renaissance Art and Arab Science by Hans Belting, translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider

• Michael Kulikowski

  • The Age of Titans: The Rise and Fall of the Great Hellenistic Navies by William Murray

• August Kleinzahler
  Poem: ‘A Baroque Scot’s Excess’

• Neal Ascherson

  • Not Me: Memoirs of a German Childhood by Joachim Fest, translated by Martin Chalmers

• Stephen Walsh

  • Music in 1853: The Biography of a Year by Hugh Macdonald

• David Simpson

  • Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis

• Corey Robin

  • Age of Fracture by Daniel Rodgers

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts

• Matthew Bevis

  • Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by John Sutherland
  • Silver: Return to Treasure Island by Andrew Motion
  • Treasure Island!!! by Sara Levine

• Adam Mars-Jones

  • The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling

• John Simon

  • Strindberg: A Life by Sue Prideaux

• Jonathan Meades
  At Hyde Park Corner

• Emily Witt
  Diary: Online Dating