Cover: Cressida Bell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Eleanor Birne
• Tom Crewe
• Nikhil Datta
• Swati Dhingra
• Anne Enright
• Paul Grimstad
• August Kleinzahler
• Diarmaid MacCulloch
• Thomas Meaney
• Pankaj Mishra
• Ian Patterson
• Susan Pedersen
• Christopher Tayler
• David Thomson
• Mary-Kay Wilmers
• Michael Wood
• Robert F. Worth

Contents

• Pankaj Mishra

  • The Retreat of Western Liberalism by Edward Luce
  • The Fate of the West: Battle to Save the World’s Most Successful Political Idea by Bill Emmott
  • The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics by David Goodhart
  • The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics by Mark Lilla
  • The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam by Douglas Murray

• Letters
  Marisol Hutchison, Gavin Francis, Derek Summerfield, David Taylor Johannesen,A.C. Willment, John Sweeney, Malcolm Deas, Michael Neill, Jonathan Sawday,Debbie Bookchin, Kenneth Baker, Hugo Blake, Joseph Nuttgens, Musab Younis, Peter Smith

• Tom Crewe
  Short Cuts: The State of Statuary

• Thomas Meaney
  In the Centre of the Centre: The German Election

• David Thomson

  • The Vietnam War directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick

• August Kleinzahler

  • The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery’s Early Life by Karin Roffman

• Eleanor Birne
  At Tate Modern: Fahrelnissa Zeid

• Susan Pedersen

  • Seven Lives from Mass Observation: Britain in the Late 20th Century by James Hinton

• Mary-Kay Wilmers
  John Sturrock

• Ian Patterson
  On Keston Sutherland

• Diarmaid MacCulloch

  • Facing the Revocation: Huguenot Families, Faith, and the King’s Will by Carolyn Chappell Lougee

• Robert F. Worth

  • The City Always Wins by Omar Robert Hamilton
  • Chronicle of a Last Summer: A Novel of Egypt by Yasmine El Rashidi

• Paul Grimstad

  • The Night Ocean by Paul La Farge

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: ‘Detroit’

• Christopher Tayler
  It’s slippery in here: ‘Twin Peaks: The Return’

  • Twin Peaks: The Return created by Mark Frost and David Lynch

• Swati Dhingra and Nikhil Datta
  How Not to Do Trade Deals

• Anne Enright
  Diary