Cover: Anne Rothenstein

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Tim Barker
• Owen Bennett-Jones
• Colin Burrow
• Brian Dillon
• Nicholas Faith
• John Lanchester
• Adam Mars-Jones
• James Meek
• Pankaj Mishra
• Elaine Mokhtefi
• Jan-Werner Müller
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Joanne O’Leary
• Abigail Parry
• Christopher Turner
• Jenny Turner

Contents

• John Lanchester
  Between Victoria and Vauxhall: The Election

• Letters
  David Campbell, Laurie Taylor, Hilary Rose, Karl Sabbagh, Joan Cashin, Adrian Bowyer, George Scialabba, Derek Robinson, Gavin Stamp

• Colin Burrow

  • House of Names by Colm Tóibín

• Nicholas Faith
  The Partisan Coffee House

• Jan-Werner Müller

  • Europe’s Last Chance: Why the European States Must Form a More Perfect Union by Guy Verhofstadt

• James Meek
  Short Cuts: Fan-Owned Politics

• Andrew O’Hagan

  • Mail Men: The Unauthorised Story of the ‘Daily Mail’, the Paper that Divided and Conquered Britain by Adrian Addison

• Joanne O’Leary

  • Jackself by Jacob Polley

• Tim Barker

  • Crude Volatility: The History and the Future of Boom-Bust Oil Prices by Robert McNally

• Adam Mars-Jones

  • The Descent of Man by Grayson Perry

• Brian Dillon
  At the Ikon Gallery

• Pankaj Mishra

  • The Discovery of Chance: The Life and Thought of Alexander Herzen by Aileen Kelly

• Jenny Turner

  • Manifestly Haraway: ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’, ‘The Companion Species Manifesto’, Companions in Conversation (with Cary Wolfe) by Donna Haraway
  • Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene by Donna Haraway

• Christopher Turner

  • Sex and Suits: The Evolution of Modern Dress by Anne Hollander
  • The Suit: Form, Function and Style by Christopher Breward

• Abigail Parry
  Poem: ‘You Know Who’

• Owen Bennett-Jones

  • Iraq: The Cost of War by Jeremy Greenstock

• Elaine Mokhtefi
  Diary: Panthers in Algiers