Cover: Alexander Gorlizki

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Tariq Ali
• Colin Burrow
• Brian Dillon
• Richard J. Evans
• Deborah Friedell
• Fredric Jameson
• Thomas Jones
• Lawrence Joseph
• Christian Lorentzen
• Ross McKibbin
• Adam Mars-Jones
• Mark Mazower
• James Meek
• Karl Miller
• Bernard Porter
• Nathaniel Rich
• David Runciman
• Adam Shatz
• Matthew Sweeney
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Letters
  Kate Soper, John Benson, Laura Smith, Jemma Mazower, David Wurtzel,Linda Gamlin, Miles Burrows, Tom Snow, Giancarlo de Vivo, Donald Winch, Charles Alverson, John Perry, Matt Grist, Donald McWilliams, Mary Ann Lund, Augustus Young, Edward Pearce, Anthony Papalas

• David Runciman

  • The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups and Winning at All Costs by Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle

• Adam Shatz

  • Derrida: A Biography by Benoît Peeters, translated by Andrew Brown

• Christian Lorentzen
  In the Land of the Free

• Colin Burrow

  • Literary Names: Personal Names in English Literature by Alastair Fowler

• Ross McKibbin

  • Last Man Standing: Memoirs of a Political Survivor by Jack Straw

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts

• Richard J. Evans

  • Walther Rathenau: Weimar’s Fallen Statesman by Shulamit Volkov

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: ‘Skyfall’

• Deborah Friedell

  • The Little House Books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of ‘Little House on the Prairie’ by Wendy McClure

• Matthew Sweeney
  Poem: ‘The Warning’

• Adam Mars-Jones

  • How to Be Gay by David Halperin

• Karl Miller

  • Country Girl: A Memoir by Edna O’Brien

• Brian Dillon
  At Tate Modern: Klein/Moriyama

• James Meek

  • Maidenhair by Mikhail Shishkin, translated by Marian Schwartz

• Bernard Porter

  • Macaulay and Son: Architects of Imperial Britain by Catherine Hall

• Tariq Ali

  • The Zenith by Duong Thu Huong, translated by Stephen Young and Hoa Pham Young

• Nathaniel Rich

  • The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans by Lawrence Powell

• Lawrence Joseph
  Poem: ‘Here in a State of Tectonic Tension’

• Fredric Jameson

  • The Programme Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing by Mark McGurl

• Mark Mazower
  Diary: In Thessaloniki