Vol. 36 No. 11 · 5 June 2014

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Cover Artist

Anne Rothenstein

T.J. Clark

Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs  Tate Modern, until 7 September 2014
Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs  MoMA, 25 October 2014 to 8 February 2015

Letters

Guido Franzinetti, Nathan Letore, Piotr Sorokin Jankowski, Roy Foster, Benjamin Carter Hett, Richard J. Evans, Branko Weiss

John Lanchester

Flash Boys: Cracking the Money Code by Michael Lewis. Allen Lane, 274 pp., £20, March 2014, 978 0 241 00363 3

Christian Lorentzen

Tang of Blood

Christian Lorentzen

Updike by Adam Begley. Harper, 558 pp., £25, April 2014, 978 0 06 189645 3

Stefan Collini

Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life by John Campbell. Cape, 818 pp., £30, March 2014, 978 0 224 08750 6

Ian Jack

Dangerous to Know: A Life by Chapman Pincher. Biteback, 386 pp., £20, February 2014, 978 1 84954 651 5

Julian Stallabrass

On Selfies: #happy, #fun, #smile and so on

Jenny Turner

A Curious Career by Lynn Barber. Bloomsbury, 224 pp., £16.99, May 2014, 978 1 4088 3719 1

Gaby Wood

Henri Cartier-Bresson  Pompidou Centre, until 8 June 2015
‘Voir est un tout’: Entretiens et conversations 1951-98 by Henri Cartier-Bresson. Centre Pompidou, 176 pp., €19.90, January 2014, 978 2 84426 639 2
Henri Cartier-Bresson: Here and Now edited by Clément Chéroux. Thames and Hudson, 400 pp., £45, March 2014, 978 0 500 54430 3

Thomas Jones

Short Cuts: Something Like a Dream of Meaning

Steven Shapin

Malthus: The Life and Legacies of an Untimely Prophet by Robert Mayhew. Harvard, 284 pp., £20, April 2014, 978 0 674 72871 4

Paul Taylor

Breast Cancer Screening

Zoë Heller

All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood by Jennifer Senior. Virago, 308 pp., £13.99, March 2014, 978 0 349 00551 5

Anne Carson

Poem: ‘The Albertine Workout’

Elizabeth Lowry

All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu. Sceptre, 256 pp., £17.99, June 2014, 978 1 4447 9377 2

Tony Wood

Back from the Edge?

Tariq Ali

Diary: In Cairo

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