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 and others
  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 directed by Kathryn Bigelow

• 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