In the world. Northwest London blues -- Elegy for a country's seasons -- Fences : a Brexit diary -- On optimism and despair -- In the audience. Generation why? -- The house that Hova built -- Brother from another mother -- Some notes on attunement -- Window on the will : Anomalisa -- Dance lessons for writers -- In the gallery. Killing Orson Welles at midnight -- Flaming June -- "Crazy they call me" : on looking at Jerry Dantzic's photos of Billie Holiday -- Alte Frau by Balthasar Denner -- Mark Bradford's Niagara -- A bird of few words : narrative mysteries in the paintings of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye -- The tattered ruins of the map : on Sarah Sze's Centrifuge -- Getting in and out -- On the bookshelf. Crash by J. G. Ballard -- The Buddha of suburbia by Hanif Kureishi -- Notes on NW -- The Harper's columns -- The I who is not me -- Feel free. Life-writing -- The bathroom -- Man versus corpse -- Meet Justin Bieber! -- Love in the gardens -- The shadow of ideas -- Find your beach -- Joy.