Cover: Rupert Thomas

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Ashbery
• Eleanor Birne
• Jenny Diski
• Tessa Hadley
• Dan Hancox
• Jeremy Harding
• Thomas Jones
• David Kaiser
• Richard Lloyd Parry
• Diarmaid MacCulloch
• Ferdinand Mount
• Michael Neill
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Jonathan Rée
• Christopher Turner
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Jenny Diski

  • The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times by Barbara Taylor

• Letters
  George Pegler, Mat Pires, Martin Brayne, Chris Walker, Paul Dawson, Van Gosse, Stephen Ellis, Eoin Dillon, Alan Bennett, Margrit Windlin, Sean Paul Kelley, Norbert Hirschhorn, Geoffrey Taunton

• Michael Neill

  • Shakespeare in Company by Bart van Es

• Ferdinand Mount

  • Memoirs of Walter Bagehot by Frank Prochaska

• Richard Lloyd Parry
  Ghosts of the Tsunami

• Jeremy Harding
  Short Cuts: ‘Inside the Dream Palace’

• Eleanor Birne
  At Pallant House: Pauline Boty

• Christopher Turner

  • Building Seagram by Phyllis Lambert
  • Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography by Franz Schulze and Edward Windhorst

• Andrew O’Hagan

  • Becoming a Londoner: A Diary by David Plante
  • The Animals: Love Letters between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy edited by Katherine Bucknell

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies

  • 12 Years a Slave directed by Steve McQueen

• Jonathan Rée

  • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: His Life, Works and Thought by H.B. Nisbet

• David Kaiser

  • Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe by Lee Smolin

• Diarmaid MacCulloch

  • Forgery and Counter-Forgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics by Bart Ehrman

• Tessa Hadley

  • All Change by Elizabeth Jane Howard

• John Ashbery
  Two Poems

• Thomas Jones

  • The Mummy’s Curse: The True History of a Dark Fantasy by Roger Luckhurst

• Dan Hancox
  Diary: In Asturias