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Vol. 35 No. 13 · 4 July 2013
John Lanchester
Are we having fun yet?
Letters
David Goodhart, Jonathan Portes, Walter Houston, John Baxendale, David Elstein, Eric Fripp
Thomas Powers
Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of ‘The Great Gatsby’ by Sarah Churchwell. Virago, 306 pp., £16.99, June 2013, 978 1 84408 766 2 The Great Gatsby directed by Baz Luhrmann.
Ciaran Carson
Two Poems
Mattathias Schwartz
Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield by Jeremy Scahill. Serpent’s Tail, 642 pp., £15.99, May 2013, 978 1 84668 850 8
Frances Leviston
Poem: ‘The Paperweight’
Brian Dillon
At Tate Britain: ‘Phantom Ride’
Michael Wood
The Poems of Octavio Paz edited and translated by Eliot Weinberger. New Directions, 606 pp., £30, October 2012, 978 0 8112 2043 9
Marina Warner
Death in Plain Sight
Simon Morrison
More Tales from the Bolshoi
Tobias Gregory
‘Religio Medici’ and ‘Urne-Buriall’ by Thomas Browne, edited by Stephen Greenblatt and Ramie Targoff. NYRB, 170 pp., £7.99, September 2012, 978 1 59017 488 3
Wayne Sumner
The Ethics of Transplants: Why Careless Thought Costs Lives by Janet Radcliffe Richards. Oxford, 278 pp., £16.99, March 2012, 978 0 19 957555 8
James Pogue
Short Cuts: Cheap and Dangerous
Adam Mars-Jones
Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi. Viking, 318 pp., £14.99, April 2013, 978 0 670 91986 4
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Behind the Candelabra’
Matthew Bevis
Victorian Bloomsbury by Rosemary Ashton. Yale, 380 pp., £25, July 2012, 978 0 300 15447 4 Metropolitan Art and Literature, 1810-40: Cockney Adventures by Gregory Dart. Cambridge, 297 pp., £55, July 2012, 978 1 107 02492 2
David Bromwich
Diary: The Snowden Case
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