Cover: Rupert Thomas

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Matthew Bevis
• David Bromwich
• Ciaran Carson
• Brian Dillon
• Tobias Gregory
• John Lanchester
• Frances Leviston
• Adam Mars-Jones
• Simon Morrison
• James Pogue
• Thomas Powers
• Mattathias Schwartz
• Wayne Sumner
• Marina Warner
• Michael Wood

Contents

• John Lanchester
  Are we having fun yet?

• Letters
  David Goodhart, Jonathan Portes, Walter Houston, John Baxendale, David Elstein, Eric Fripp

• Thomas Powers

  • Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of ‘The Great Gatsby’ by Sarah Churchwell
  • The Great Gatsby directed by Baz Luhrmann

• Ciaran Carson
  Two Poems

• Mattathias Schwartz

  • Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield by Jeremy Scahill

• Frances Leviston
  Poem: ‘The Paperweight’

• Brian Dillon
  At Tate Britain: ‘Phantom Ride’

• Michael Wood

  • The Poems of Octavio Paz edited and translated by Eliot Weinberger

• Marina Warner
  Death in Plain Sight

• Simon Morrison
  More Tales from the Bolshoi

• Tobias Gregory

  • ‘Religio Medici’ and ‘Urne-Buriall’ by Thomas Browne, edited by Stephen Greenblatt and Ramie Targoff

• Wayne Sumner

  • The Ethics of Transplants: Why Careless Thought Costs Lives by Janet Radcliffe Richards

• James Pogue
  Short Cuts

• Adam Mars-Jones

  • Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: ‘Behind the Candelabra’

• Matthew Bevis

  • Victorian Bloomsbury by Rosemary Ashton
  • Metropolitan Art and Literature, 1810-40: Cockney Adventures by Gregory Dart

• David Bromwich
  Diary: The Snowden Case