Cover: Mark Boxer

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• A.J. Ayer
• Brigid Brophy
• Bruce Chatwin
• James Fox
• Michael Irwin
• Dan Jacobson
• Frank Kermode
• Eric Korn
• Hugh Lloyd-Jones
• Craig Raine
• Michael Schmidt
• George Steiner
• John Sturrock
• Bernard Williams
• J.Z. Young

Contents

• Brigid Brophy

  • The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work by Germaine Greer

• Letters
  Ann Geneva, James Darke, Geoffrey Morgan, Rosalind Mitchison, Gil Elliot, P.B. Freshwater

• Hugh Lloyd-Jones

  • A.E. Housman by Richard Perceval Graves

• Michael Schmidt
  Two Poems

• J.Z. Young

  • Broca’s Brain by Carl Sagan

• George Steiner

  • The True Interpreter by Louis Kelly

• Bernard Williams

  • On Thinking by Gilbert Ryle, edited by Konstantin Kolenda

• John Sturrock

  • Psychoanalytic Politics by Sherry Turkle

• Bruce Chatwin

  • Desert, Marsh and Mountain by Wilfred Thesiger

• Craig Raine
  Poem: ‘Memories of the Linen Room’

• James Fox writes about the Ingrams school of journalism and its antagonists

  • Goldenballs by Richard Ingrams

• A.J. Ayer

  • Hugh Gaitskell by Philip Williams

• Frank Kermode
  Booker Books

• Michael Irwin

  • The Old Jest by Jennifer Johnston
  • The Goosefeather Bed by Diana Melly
  • The Snow Man by Valerie Kershaw
  • Spring Sonata by Bernice Rubens

• Eric Korn

  • Saturday Night Reader edited by Emma Tennant

• Dan Jacobson
  The Secret of Bishop’s Stortford