Cover: Rupert Thomas

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Julian Bell
• Alan Bennett
• Anne Carson
• Jenny Diski
• Hal Foster
• Lidija Haas
• Jeremy Harding
• Margaret Jacob
• Christian Lorentzen
• Luke Mitchell
• Michael Newton
• Charles Nicholl
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Matthew Reynolds
• Will Self
• Steven Shapin
• Michael Silverstein
• Alice Spawls
• Marina Warner

Contents

• Letters
  Hope Leman, Janet Crook, Bob Hall, George Mackie, Otto Saumarez-Smith, Jeremy Harris, Richard Bassett, Edward Luttwak, Peter James, Paul Thomson, Avi Raz, Martin Butler, Bruce Clunies Ross

• Andrew O’Hagan
  Light Entertainment: Our Paedophile Culture

• Marina Warner
  Our Lady of the Counterculture: The Virgin Mary

• Hal Foster

  • Medieval Modern: Art out of Time by Alexander Nagel
  • Depositions: Scenes from the Late Medieval Church and the Modern Museum by Amy Knight Powell

• Lidija Haas
  On the Sofa: ‘Girls’

• Luke Mitchell

  • Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power by Steve Coll

• Michael Silverstein

  • Saussure by John Joseph

• Alan Bennett
  It starts with an itch: ‘People’

• Christian Lorentzen

  • NW by Zadie Smith

• Jeremy Harding
  Short Cuts

• Michael Newton

  • HHhH by Laurent Binet, translated by Sam Taylor

• Matthew Reynolds

  • New Finnish Grammar by Diego Marani, translated by Judith Landry
  • The Last of the Vostyachs by Diego Marani, translated by Judith Landry
  • Las Adventures des Inspector Cabillot by Diego Marani

• Margaret Jacob

  • A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy by Jonathan Israel

• Alice Spawls

  • Jane Austen’s Cults and Cultures by Claudia Johnson

• Julian Bell
  In Margate: Alex Katz

• Steven Shapin

  • The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe by Michael Gordin

• Charles Nicholl
  The Other Thomas

• Anne Carson
  A Fragment of Ibykos Translated Six Ways

• Jenny Diski

  • Murder at Wrotham Hill by Diana Souhami

• Will Self
  Diary: Video Games