Cover: Anne Rothenstein

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Neal Ascherson
• Joyce Chaplin
• Patrick Cockburn
• Jenny Diski
• Francis FitzGibbon
• Sheila Heti
• Christian Lorentzen
• Adam Mars-Jones
• Nicholas Penny
• David Runciman
• Iain Sinclair
• Theo Tait
• Bee Wilson
• Tony Wood
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Patrick Cockburn
  Is it the end of Sykes-Picot?: The Syrian War Spills Over

• Letters
  Peter McGill, Andrew Gelman, Sue Jones, Jem Thomas, Matthew Sperling, Caroline Alexander, Richard Davenport-Hines, Peter Cave

• Neal Ascherson
  Hanging on to Mutti: In Berlin

• Nicholas Penny

  • Titian: His Life by Sheila Hale

• Christian Lorentzen

  • Dear Life by Alice Munro

• David Runciman

  • Margaret Thatcher: The Authorised Biography. Vol. I: Not for Turning by Charles Moore

• Theo Tait

  • The Undiscovered Country: Journeys among the Dead by Carl Watkins
  • A Natural History of Ghosts: 500 Years of Hunting for Proof by Roger Clarke

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies

• Sheila Heti

  • Heroines by Kate Zambreno

• Adam Mars-Jones

  • Life after Life by Kate Atkinson

• Iain Sinclair
  At Annely Juda

• Bee Wilson

  • The Redgraves: A Family Epic by Donald Spoto
  • The House of Redgrave: The Lives of a Theatrical Dynasty by Tim Adler

• Tony Wood

  • Wheel of Fortune: The Battle for Oil and Power in Russia by Thane Gustafson

• Francis FitzGibbon
  Short Cuts

• Joyce Chaplin

  • Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease by Mark Harrison

• Jenny Diski
  Diary: In Praise of Older Men