Cover: Alexander Gorlizki

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Neal Ascherson
• Jenny Diski
• Dawn Foster
• Peter Green
• Suzy Hansen
• Jeremy Harding
• Owen Hatherley
• Peter Howarth
• Ben Jackson
• Thomas Jones
• Hilary Mantel
• Barbara Newman
• David Runciman
• Frederick Seidel
• Jenny Turner
• Stephen Walsh
• Hugo Williams
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Neal Ascherson

  • The Promised Land by Erich Maria Remarque, translated by Michael Hofmann

• Letters
  John Gillingham, Scott Herrick, Keith Bilton, Jonathan Elphick, Jane Symonds, Margaret McCartney, Paul Taylor, Pedro Solares, Matthew Young

• Jenny Turner
  Barely under Control

• Dawn Foster
  Free Schools

• Hilary Mantel
  The School of English

• Barbara Newman

  • Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation by Robert Bartlett

• Frederick Seidel
  Poem: ‘Down below Riverside Park’

• Peter Green

  • Ancient Persia: A Concise History of the Achaemenid Empire, 550-330 bce by Matt Waters

• Owen Hatherley

  • Nye: The Political Life of Aneurin Bevan by Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts

• Ben Jackson

  • Honourable Friends? Parliament and the Fight for Change by Caroline Lucas

• Jeremy Harding
  At the RA: Richard Diebenkorn

• Jenny Diski
  In Gratitude

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies

  • Force Majeure directed by Ruben Östlund
  • Clouds of Sils Maria directed by Olivier Assayas

• Peter Howarth

  • Robert Graves: Selected Poems edited by Michael Longley

• David Runciman
  Notes on the Election

• Stephen Walsh

  • Words without Music: A Memoir by Philip Glass

• Hugo Williams
  Poem: ‘After Midnight’

• Suzy Hansen
  Diary: In Istanbul