Ian Penman Surf’s Up: Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys by Peter Doggett LettersMark Padmore, Ira Braus, Peter Hoskins, Steve Penny, Chris Paparella, Ronni Lundy, Don LePan, Mat Snow, Peter Rowland, Colin Lovelace Matthew Bevis A Day like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler by Nathan Kernan Elizabeth GoldringAt the National Gallery: Holbein and Henry James James LasdunReality Instruction Paul TherouxGun Love Eyal WeizmanAll they will find is sand Francis FitzGibbonShort Cuts: Judicial Activism Sarah Resnick I Don’t Care by Ágota Kristóf, translated by Chris Andrews A.E. StallingsPoem: ‘The Maze’ Christian Lorentzen Transcription by Ben Lerner Azadeh Moaveni Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Seduction, Intrigue and Power by Sonia Purnell Pratinav Anil Indira Gandhi and the Years that Transformed India by Srinath Raghavan Gaby WoodAt the Movies: ‘Rose of Nevada’ Rosemary Hill Out of the Shadows: Rediscovering Maria Cosway by Diane Boucher Souvenirs by Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun Francis Gooding The Language Puzzle: How We Talked Our Way out of the Stone Age by Steven Mithen Charles GlassDiary: Beirut, Now and Then