Cover: Jon McNaught

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Julian Bell
• Sean Borodale
• David Bromwich
• Colin Burrow
• Stefan Collini
• William Davies
• Lawrence Goldman
• Jorie Graham
• Sheila Heti
• Adam Mars-Jones
• Steven Shapin
• Namara Smith
• Anne Stillman
• Daniel Trilling
• Duncan Wheeler
• Michael Wood
• Simon Wren-Lewis

Contents

• William Davies
  Reasons for Corbyn

• Letters
  Nicholas Tracy, Naomi Hossain, Chris Knight, Hilary Rose, Helen Gough, Peter Holt, Richard Carter, Dick Pountain, John Cunningham, Emily Witt, Raymond Clayton, Mike Connelly, Patrick Ainley

• Anne Stillman

  • Jean Cocteau: A Life by Claude Arnaud, translated by Lauren Elkin and Charlotte Mandell

• David Bromwich
  The Age of Detesting Trump

• Simon Wren-Lewis
  Short Cuts: Magic Money Trees

• Adam Mars-Jones

  • The Boat Rocker by Ha Jin

• Daniel Trilling

  • Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move by Reece Jones
  • Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System by Alexander Betts and Paul Collier
  • No Borders: The Politics of Immigration Control and Resistance by Natasha King

• Colin Burrow
  On Philip Terry

• Namara Smith

  • Priestdaddy: A Memoir by Patricia Lockwood

• Sean Borodale
  Two Poems

• Sheila Heti

  • The First Wife by Paulina Chiziane, translated by David Brookshaw

• Julian Bell
  In Cardiff: Gillian Ayres

• Stefan Collini

  • Ark of Civilisation: Refugee Scholars and Oxford University, 1930-45 edited by Sally Crawford, Katharina Ulmschneider and Jaś Elsner

• Jorie Graham
  Poem: ‘I’m Reading Your Mind’

• Steven Shapin

  • Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies: ‘Wonder Woman’

• Lawrence Goldman

  • Red Ellen: The Life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist by Laura Beers

• Duncan Wheeler
  Diary: Bullfighting