Cover: Cressida Bell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Richard Barnett
• Frederick Brown
• T.J. Clark
• Anne Enright
• Peter Howarth
• Eleanor Hubbard
• Hazem Kandil
• Aaron Matz
• James Meek
• Michael Herbert Miller
• Simon Morrison
• Bernard Porter
• David Runciman
• Christopher Tayler
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Letters
  Seán Haldane, Tony Judge, Michael Robertson, John Lennard, Krystyna Weinstein, Gerald Smith, P.L. Dickinson, Clancy Sigal, Neil McKenna

• David Runciman
  How can it work?: American Democracy

• T.J. Clark
  Lucky Hunter-Gatherers

  • Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind

• Christopher Tayler

  • J.M. Coetzee: A Life in Writing by J.C. Kannemeyer, translated by Michiel Heyns
  • Here and Now: Letters 2008-11 by Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee
  • The Childhood of Jesus by J.M. Coetzee

• Hazem Kandil
  Deadlock in Cairo

• Bernard Porter

  • Empire of Secrets: British Intelligence, the Cold War and the Twilight of Empire by Calder Walton

• Simon Morrison

  • Diaries 1924-33: Prodigal Son by Sergey Prokofiev, translated by Anthony Phillips

• James Meek
  Short Cuts

• Richard Barnett

  • The Correspondence of Michael Faraday Vol. VI, 1860-67 by Frank James

• Michael Wood

  • Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story by Jim Holt

• Peter Howarth

  • Selected Poems by Don Paterson

• Michael Herbert Miller

  • The Love Song of Jonny Valentine by Teddy Wayne

• Aaron Matz

  • The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet, translated by Christopher Moncrieff

• Frederick Brown

  • Cézanne: A Life by Alex Danchev

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: ‘The Gospel According to Saint Matthew’

• Eleanor Hubbard

  • The Business and Household Accounts of Joyce Jeffreys, Spinster of Hereford, 1638-48 edited by Judith Spicksley

• Anne Enright
  Diary: Censorship in Ireland