Cover: Anne Rothenstein

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Joanna Biggs
• Eleanor Birne
• Tom Crewe
• Eric Foner
• Gavin Francis
• Greg Grandin
• Rosemary Hill
• Colin Kidd
• August Kleinzahler
• Christopher Krebs
• Long Ling
• Helen McCarthy
• Tim Parks
• Ian Patterson
• Malcolm Petrie
• David Runciman
• Will Self
• Timothy Shenk
• Andrew Sinclair
• Hugo Williams
• Michael Wood
• Musab Younis

Contents

• Rosemary Hill

  • The Good Bohemian: The Letters of Ida John edited by Rebecca John and Michael Holroyd

• Letters
  Peter Godfrey, Aidan Byrne, Xavier Leduc, Donna Haraway, Liam Young, Chris Edwards, Judith More

• David Runciman
  The Choice Was Real

• Greg Grandin

  • Chávez: My First Life by Hugo Chávez and Ignacio Ramonet, translated by Ann Wright

• Michael Wood

  • The Untold Journey: The Life of Diana Trilling by Natalie Robins

• Ian Patterson
  Poem: ‘Plenty of Nothing’

• Joanna Biggs

  • Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell

• Timothy Shenk

  • Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion by Gareth Stedman Jones

• Hugo Williams
  Poem: ‘TV Times’

• Eleanor Birne
  At New Hall: Modern Women’s Art

• Eric Foner

  • A Mind to Stay: White Plantation, Black Homeland by Sydney Nathans

• Gavin Francis

  • The Mystery of Sleep: Why a Good Night’s Rest Is Vital to a Better, Healthier Life by Meir Kryger

• Christopher Krebs

  • The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives by Plutarch, translated by Pamela Mensch

• Tom Crewe
  Short Cuts: Labour’s Best Cards

• Musab Younis

  • Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonisation and the Future of the World by Gary Wilder

• Will Self

  • The Smile Stealers: The Fine and Foul Art of Dentistry by Richard Barnett

• Tim Parks

  • A Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg, translated by Jenny McPhee

• Helen McCarthy

  • The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick-Maker: The Story of Britain through Its Census, since 1801 by Roger Hutchinson

• Andrew Sinclair
  Havana, 1968

• Colin Kidd and Malcolm Petrie
  Our National Hodgepodge

• August Kleinzahler
  On Roy Fisher

• Long Ling
  Diary: Death at the Banquet