Cover: Cressida Bell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Ashbery
• Robert Baird
• John Barrell
• Owen Bennett-Jones
• David Bromwich
• James Camp
• Jeremy Harding
• August Kleinzahler
• Melanie McFadyean
• Adam Mars-Jones
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Ian Penman
• T.J. Reed
• Amia Srinivasan
• Frances Stonor Saunders
• Christopher Tayler
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Letters
  Glyn Maxwell, John Lawton, Richard Bowring, Simon Skinner, Peter Betts, Eoin Dillon, Hazel Beeler, Alexander Smith, Steve Lane, Jean Owen, Aidan Byrne, Jonathan Barrett, Richard Abel, Arnie Lieber, Jeremy Bernstein, Sunny Tailor

• Frances Stonor Saunders
  The Writer and the Valet

• Andrew O’Hagan

  • No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald

• David Bromwich
  Degrade and Destroy

• Amia Srinivasan

  • Death and the Afterlife by Samuel Scheffler

• Ian Penman

  • Elvis Has Left the Building: The Day the King Died by Dylan Jones
  • Elvis Presley: A Southern Life by Joel Williamson

• Jeremy Harding
  Short Cuts

• Christopher Tayler

  • The Golden Fleece: Essays by Muriel Spark, edited by Penelope Jardine

• August Kleinzahler
  Two Poems

• Adam Mars-Jones

  • The Dog by Joseph O’Neill

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies

  • A Most Wanted Man directed by Anton Corbijn

• Owen Bennett-Jones

  • The Pashtun Question: The Unresolved Key to the Future of Pakistan and Afghanistan by Abubakar Siddique
  • The Taliban Revival: Violence and Extremism on the Pakistan-Afghanistan Frontier by Hassan Abbas

• James Camp

  • Jack London: An American Life by Earle Labor
  • The Sea-Wolf by Jack London

• John Ashbery
  Two Poems

• Robert Baird

  • Denise Levertov: A Poet’s Life by Dana Greene
  • A Poet’s Revolution: The Life of Denise Levertov by Donna Krolik Hollenberg
  • Collected Poems by Denise Levertov

• John Barrell
  In Cardiff: Richard Wilson

• T.J. Reed

  • Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach by Philip Kitcher

• Melanie McFadyean
  Diary: In the Wrong Crowd