contents encounters 30 Robert McCrum on V S Naipaul art & music 32 Michael Prodger

Japanese Prints: The Collection of Vincent van Gogh Chris Uhlenbeck, Louis van Tilborgh & Shigeru Oikawa 33 Rupert Christiansen

Schumann: The Faces & the Masks Judith Chernaik 34 Jonathan Keates

Handel in London: The Making of a Genius Jane Glover the state we’re in 36 David Goodhart

Identity Francis Fukuyama 37 Matthew Smith

The Inner Level Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett 38 Jack Stilgoe

Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car Lawrence Burns with Christopher Shulgan foreign parts 40 John Tusa

The Last Palace Norman Eisen 41 Gavin Esler

Inventing American Tradition Jack David Eller 43 Duncan Tucker

A Massacre in Mexico Anabel Hernández 44 Mick Brown

Empire of Enchantment: The Story of Indian Magic John Zubrzycki food & drink 46 Jeremy Clarke

Red and White Oz Clarke 47 Olivia Potts on four recipe books general 48 Angela Tilby

Living with the Gods: On Beliefs & Peoples Neil MacGregor 49 Adrian Weale

Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper Helen Parr 50 Simon Blackburn

How the World Thinks Julian Baggini

51 Wendy Moore

Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Mysterious, Miraculous World of Blood Rose George 53 Tom Fort

Silver Shoals Charles Rangeley-Wilson 54 Henry Hitchings

First You Write a Sentence Joe Moran 55 Neil Armstrong

‘Broadsword Calling Danny Boy’ Geoff Dyer fiction 56 Edmund Gordon

The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story Philip Hensher (ed) 57 Alex Blasdel

The Overstory Richard Powers 58 Houman Barekat on three debuts 59 Davina Langdale

Varina Charles Frazier 60 Lucian Robinson

Red Birds Mohammed Hanif 61 Jonathan Barnes

Melmoth Sarah Perry 62 Elspeth Barker

In the City of Love’s Sleep Lavinia Greenlaw fiction in translation 63 Catherine Brown

Kolyma Stories: Volume One Varlam Shalamov 64 Anthony Cummins

Killing Commendatore Haruki Murakami 65 André Naffis-Sahely

The Piranhas Roberto Saviano 66 Matt Rowland Hill

Berta Isla Javier Marías children’s books 67 Philip Womack on three books for younger readers silenced voices 68 Lucy Popescu on Wa Lone & Kyaw Soe Oo bookends 72 David McClay on John Murray’s letters

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