Cover: Cressida Bell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Tariq Ali
• Perry Anderson
• Julian Barnes
• Julian Bell
• Emily Berry
• Jenny Diski
• David Edgar
• Sheila Fitzpatrick
• Rosemary Hill
• Colin Kidd
• Adam Mars-Jones
• Steven Mithen
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Don Paterson
• Steven Shapin
• Frederick Wilmot-Smith
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Letters
  Robin O’Malley, Brian Slocock, Peter Green, Joanne Mariner, Tom Rivers, Colin Darch, Keith Flett, Martin Sanderson, Frank Donald, Josephine Boot

• Sheila Fitzpatrick

  • Landscapes of Communism: A History through Buildings by Owen Hatherley

• Julian Barnes

  • Ever Yours: The Essential Letters by Vincent van Gogh, edited by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker
  • Van Gogh: A Power Seething by Julian Bell

• Adam Mars-Jones

  • Sphinx by Anne Garréta, translated by Emma Ramadan

• Frederick Wilmot-Smith
  Court Cuts

• Don Paterson
  Poem: ‘Four Poems’

• Jenny Diski
  Why can’t people just be sensible?

• Steven Shapin

  • Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World by Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger

• Perry Anderson
  One Exceptional Figure Stood Out

• Julian Bell
  At the Watts Gallery

• Andrew O’Hagan
  Short Cuts

• Colin Kidd

  • The Formation of the English Kingdom in the Tenth Century by George Molyneaux
  • The English and Their History by Robert Tombs
  • Conquests, Catastrophe and Recovery: Britain and Ireland 1066-1485 by John Gillingham
  • From Restoration to Reform: The British Isles 1660-1832 by Jonathan Clark
  • Britain since 1900: A Success Story? by Robert Skidelsky

• Emily Berry
  Poem: ‘Tragedy for One Voice’

• Steven Mithen

  • Earth’s Deep History: How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters by Martin Rudwick

• Rosemary Hill

  • Princes at War: The British Royal Family’s Private Battle in the Second World War by Deborah Cadbury

• David Edgar

  • Jeremy Thorpe by Michael Bloch
  • Closet Queens: Some 20th-Century British Politicians by Michael Bloch

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies

  • Touch of Evil directed by Orson Welles

• Tariq Ali
  Diary: In Athens