Cover: Anne Rothenstein

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Irina Aleksander
• Perry Anderson
• Tim Dee
• Leland de la Durantaye
• Stephen Holmes
• Peter Howarth
• John Lanchester
• Ben Lerner
• Bill Manhire
• Jamie Martin
• Jan-Werner Müller
• David Renton
• Denise Riley
• John-Paul Stonard
• John Hartley Williams
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Perry Anderson
  The Italian Disaster

• Letters
  Richard Lloyd, Ted Postol, Chris Belshaw, Angela Lee, Mark Etherton, John Calderon, John Taylor, Carroll Macnamara, Andrew Jameson, Roderick Conway Morris, Vernon Bogdanor, Jonathan Wills, Stephen Low, Helen Vendler

• John Lanchester
  Short Cuts: fUKd

• Irina Aleksander

  • Little Failure: A Memoir by Gary Shteyngart

• John Hartley Williams
  Poem: ‘I Inspect the Storm’

• Jamie Martin

  • Saving the City: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914 by Richard Roberts

• Ben Lerner

  • My Struggle: Vol. 3. Boyhood Island by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated by Don Bartlett

• Denise Riley
  Poem: ‘Listening for Lost People’

• David Renton
  The Killing of Blair Peach

• Peter Howarth

  • The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D.H. Lawrence: The Poems edited by Christopher Pollnitz

• Stephen Holmes

  • The Map and the Territory: Risk, Human Nature and the Future of Forecasting by Alan Greenspan

• John-Paul Stonard
  At the Ashmolean

• Leland de la Durantaye

  • Versuch über den Pilznarren: Eine Geschichte für sich by Peter Handke
  • Peter Handke im Gespräch, mit Hubert Patterer und Stefan Winkler

• Bill Manhire
  Three Poems

• Jan-Werner Müller

  • Ruling the Void: The Hollowing of Western Democracy by Peter Mair

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies

  • An Autumn Afternoon directed by Yasujirō Ozu

• Tim Dee
  Diary: Derek Walcott’s Birthday Party