In the latest issue of the magazine Vogue has called ‘the pinnacle of literary and political writing’ a distinguished writer makes an anonymous confession and defends a habit: his son supplies him with Ecstasy.

With: Nicholas Shakespeare discovers the evil of his ancestors. The psychiatrist David Feuer on trying-and failing-to be a shrink in a community of the Hasidim. Amanda Hopkinson Andrew Brown and Christopher de Bellaigue

AND: New fiction from A M Homes and Judith Hermann PLUS: a newly discovered, never before published story by Penelope Fitzgerald