Cover: Anne Rothenstein

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Stephanie Burt
• Chloë Daniel
• Anne Diebel
• Dave Lindorff
• Adam Mars-Jones
• James Meek
• Steven Mithen
• David Morley
• Blake Morrison
• Vadim Nikitin
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Jonathan Parry
• Claire Potter
• Jack Shenker
• Tom Stammers
• John-Paul Stonard
• Anna Della Subin
• Colm Tóibín
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Colm Tóibín
  The Road to Reading Gaol

• Letters
  Marta Umińska, Graham Chainey, Johan Enegren, Andrew Livingston, Willy McCourt, Malcolm Gaskill, Ruth Valentine, Colin Quinney, Elizabeth Darling, Lynne Walker, Lawrence Rosen, Phil Thompson, Chris Yates, Trevor Turner, Paul Griseri

• Steven Mithen

  • Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States by James C. Scott

• Adam Mars-Jones

  • Solar Bones by Mike McCormack

• Dave Lindorff
  Short Cuts: Medical Fraud

• Jack Shenker

  • The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette

• James Meek

  • The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics by Mark Lilla
  • The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction by Mark Lilla

• Stephanie Burt
  On Hera Lindsay Bird

• Blake Morrison

  • The Inky Digit of Defiance: Selected Prose 1966-2016 by Tony Harrison, edited by Edith Hall
  • Collected Poems by Tony Harrison

• John-Paul Stonard
  At the Courtauld: Chaïm Soutine

• Jonathan Parry

  • The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914 by Simon Heffer

• Tom Stammers

  • Liberty or Death: The French Revolution by Peter McPhee

• Anna Della Subin

  • The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition by Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri, translated by Elias Muhanna

• Claire Potter
  Poem: ‘Four Paragraphs on Winter Swimming’

• Andrew O’Hagan

  • The Death of the ‘Fronsac’ by Neal Ascherson

• David Morley
  Poem: ‘Yarak’

• Chloë Daniel

  • Hannah’s Dress: Berlin 1904-2014 by Pascale Hugues, translated by C. Jon Delogu and Nick Somers

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies

  • Murder on the Orient Express directed by Kenneth Brannagh

• Anne Diebel

  • Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan

• Vadim Nikitin
  Diary