Cover: Rupert Thomas

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Ashbery
• Julian Bell
• Pooja Bhatia
• Charlotte Brontë
• Colin Burrow
• Andrew Cockburn
• Jenny Diski
• Sheila Fitzpatrick
• Charles Glass
• Edmund Gordon
• Barbara Herrnstein Smith
• Colin Kidd
• Philip Oltermann
• Thomas Powers
• Will Self
• Megan Vaughan
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Colin Kidd
  The End of Labour?

• Letters
  Tim Whalley, Peter Dreyer, Adrian Versteegh, John Black, Martin Rees, Sebastian Robinson, Robin Charleston, David Lea

• Sheila Fitzpatrick

  • Showcasing the Great Experiment: Cultural Diplomacy and Western Visitors to the Soviet Union 1921-41 by Michael David-Fox
  • Moscow, the Fourth Rome: Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism and the Evolution of Soviet Culture, 1931-41 by Katerina Clark
  • Being Soviet: Identity, Rumour and Everyday Life under Stalin by Timothy Johnston
  • Stalin’s Last Generation: Soviet Postwar Youth and the Emergence of Mature Socialism by Juliane Fürst
  • All This Is Your World: Soviet Tourism at Home and Abroad after Stalin by Anne Gorsuch

• Thomas Powers

  • Just One Catch: The Passionate Life of Joseph Heller by Tracy Daugherty
  • Yossarian Slept Here: When Joseph Heller was Dad and Life was a Catch-22 by Erica Heller

• Charlotte Brontë
  L’Ingratitude

• Charles Glass

  • Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean by Philip Mansel
  • Beirut by Samir Kassir, translated by M.B. Debevoise

• Andrew Cockburn
  Drones, baby, drones

• Colin Burrow
  Gold-Digger: Walter Ralegh

  • Sir Walter Ralegh in Life and Legend by Mark Nicholls and Penry Williams
  • The Favourite: Sir Walter Ralegh in Elizabeth I’s Court by Mathew Lyons

• Jenny Diski
  Short Cuts: The Falklands

• Megan Vaughan

  • Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure by Tim Jeal

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: ‘A Dangerous Method’

• Will Self

  • Militant Modernism by Owen Hatherley
  • A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain by Owen Hatherley

• Barbara Herrnstein Smith

  • On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods by Bruno Latour

• Philip Oltermann

  • More Lives than One: A Biography of Hans Fallada by Jenny Williams
  • A Small Circus by Hans Fallada, translated by Michael Hofmann

• John Ashbery
  Poem: ‘Etudes Second Series’

• Julian Bell
  At Tate Britain: ‘Migrations’

• Edmund Gordon

  • Waiting for Sunrise by William Boyd

• Pooja Bhatia
  Diary: Aristide’s Brain