Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Ashbery
• Julian Barnes
• Julian Bell
• Alan Bennett
• Peter Campbell
• Jenny Diski
• Jeremy Harding
• Thomas Jones
• Frank Kermode
• John Lanchester
• Hilary Mantel
• Thomas Nagel
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Jonathan Raban
• Jacqueline Rose
• Charles Simic
• Daniel Soar
• Colm Tóibín
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Letters
  Pat Stamp, Rob Stradling, James Wood, Markus Eichhorn, Garth Clarke

• Jacqueline Rose

  • Murder in the Name of Honour by Rana Husseini
  • In Honour of Fadime: Murder and Shame by Unni Wikan, translated by Anna Paterson
  • Honour Killing: Stories of Men Who Killed by Ayse Onal

• Jeremy Harding

  • The Guantánamo Effect: Exposing the Consequences of US Detention and Interrogation Practices by Laurel Fletcher and Eric Stover

• Julian Bell

  • Vincent van Gogh: The Letters edited by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker, translated by Michael Hoyle et al

• ‘The Habit of Art’

• Colm Tóibín

  • Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey

• Peter Campbell
  At the British Museum: Moctezuma

• Julian Barnes

  • Afloat by Guy de Maupassant, translated by Douglas Parmée
  • Alien Hearts by Guy de Maupassant, translated by Richard Howard

• Hilary Mantel

  • Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives by Brian Dillon

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Bio Insecurity

• Thomas Nagel

  • Selves: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics by Galen Strawson

• John Lanchester

  • The Murder of Lehman Brothers: An Insider’s Look at the Global Meltdown by Joseph Tibman
  • A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Incredible Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers by Larry McDonald, in collaboration with Patrick Robinson

• Jonathan Raban
  Summer with Empson: Learning to Read

• John Ashbery
  Poem: ‘The Winemakers’

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: Agnès Varda

• Andrew O’Hagan
  Guilt: A Memoir

• Frank Kermode

  • William Golding: The Man Who Wrote ‘Lord of the Flies’ by John Carey

• Daniel Soar

  • A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks

• Charles Simic
  Poem: ‘Old Man’

• Jenny Diski
  Diary: Rape-Rape