Vol. 38 No. 8 · 21 April 2016

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Cover Artist

Anne Rothenstein

John Lanchester

When Bitcoin Grows Up

Letters

Marina Warner, John Barnie, Carl Gardner; Maurice Naftalin, Fiona Watson, David O’Connor, John Evans, Sheila MacLeod, Christine Shuttleworth, Mark Engel, Felix Jeschke, Elizabeth Roberts, Kevin DiCamillo

Nick Richardson

Short Cuts: Aubergines are no longer merely aubergines

Colin Burrow

Aeneid: Book VI translated by Seamus Heaney. Faber, 53 pp., £14.99, March 2016, 978 0 571 32731 7

Perry Anderson

Crisis in Brazil

Peter Geoghegan

The End of the Scottish Press?

Adam Mars-Jones

What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell. Picador, 194 pp., £12.99, April 2016, 978 1 4472 8051 4

Jean Sprackland

Poem: ‘April’

Christopher Turner

Pornotopia: An Essay on Playboy’s Architecture and Biopolitics by Beatriz Preciado. Zone, 303 pp., £20.95, October 2014, 978 1 935408 48 2
Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny by Holly Madison. Dey Street, 334 pp., £16.99, July 2015, 978 0 06 237210 9

Jenni Quilter

Restless Ambition: Grace Hartigan, Painter by Cathy Curtis. Oxford, 432 pp., £20.99, April 2015, 978 0 19 939450 0

Michael D. Gordin

Ivan Pavlov: A Russian Life in Science by Daniel Todes. Oxford, 855 pp., £25, December 2014, 978 0 19 992519 3

Eleanor Birne

At Tate Modern: Performing for the Camera

Jonathan Steele

Putin in Syria

Jamie McKendrick

Poem: ‘Earscape’

Michael Hofmann

All That Man Is by David Szalay. Cape, 437 pp., £14.99, April 2016, 978 0 224 09976 9

Michael Wood

At the Movies: ‘Anomalisa’

Susan McKay

Diary: Soldier Dolls in Belfast

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