Cover: R.B. Kitaj

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Barrell
• Patricia Beer
• David Bindman
• Brigid Brophy
• Peter Burke
• Peter Campbell
• David Cannadine
• Charles Hope
• Samuel Hynes
• Michael Irwin
• Frank Kermode
• Peter Lamarque
• Michael Mason
• Robert Melville
• Andrew Motion
• Nicholas Penny
• Tom Phillips
• Sidney Pollard
• Thomas Puttfarken
• J.I.M. Stewart
• Jon Whiteley
• Bernard Williams
• Mary-Kay Wilmers

Contents

• Frank Kermode

  • God’s Fifth Column: A Biography of the Age, 1890-1940 by William Gerhardie, Michael Holroyd and Robert Skidelsky
  • Futility by William Gerhardie

• Letters
  Roberthall, Enid Lakeman, William Vaughan, Richard Webster, Barbara Pankhurst, Patrick Curry, Claire Tomalin, John Spiers, Ursula Owen

• Mary-Kay Wilmers

  • Life with Lowry by Tilly Marshall

• Brigid Brophy

  • Aubrey Beardsley: An Account of his Life by Miriam Benkovitz

• David Cannadine

  • Survey of London. Vol. 40: The Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair, Part 2. The Buildings edited by F.H.W. Sheppard

• Sidney Pollard

  • Lords and Landlords: The Aristocracy and the Towns, 1774-1967 by David Cannadine

• Peter Campbell

  • Homes fit for Heroes by Mark Swenarton
  • The Shell Book of the Home in Britain by James Ayres

• Samuel Hynes

  • Paul Nash by Andrew Causey
  • The Enemy by Jeffrey Meyers
  • Wyndham Lewis: A Revaluation edited by Jeffrey Meyers
  • Wyndham lewis by Jane Farrington

• Tom Phillips

  • English Art and Modernism 1900-1939 by Charles Harrison

• Peter Burke

  • The First Moderns: The Architects of the Eighteenth Century by Joseph Rykwert

• Robert Melville

  • Interviews with Francis Bacon 1962-1979 edited by David Sylvester

• Charles Hope

  • Andrea Schiavone by Francis Richardson

• Thomas Puttfarken

  • Titian by Charles Hope

• Nicholas Penny

  • Bernini and the Unity of the Visual Arts by Irving Lavin

• John Barrell

  • Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot by Michael Fried

• Jon Whiteley

  • Thomas Couture and the Eclectic Vision by Albert Boime

• David Bindman

  • William Blake, printmaker by Robert Essick

• Peter Lamarque

  • Art and Its Objects by Richard Wollheim
  • Works and Worlds of Art by Nicholas Wolterstorff

• Bernard Williams

  • Religion and Public Doctrine in England by Maurice Cowling

• Andrew Motion
  Poem: ‘The First of Things’

• Michael Mason
  George Eliot, Joyce and Cambridge

• Patricia Beer

  • The Poetry of Edward Thomas by Andrew Motion

• Michael Irwin

  • The Country by David Plante
  • The Radiant Future by Alexander Zinoviev, translated by Gordon Clough
  • Farewell to Europe by Walter Laqueur

• J.I.M. Stewart

  • Joseph Conrad: Times Remembered by Joseph Conrad