Cover: Canova/Roloff Beny

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Hans Aarsleff
• Gabriele Annan
• Isaiah Berlin
• David Cannadine
• Alan Coren
• Douglas Dunn
• Jon Elster
• E.H. Gombrich
• Nigel Hamilton
• John Harvey
• Arthur Marwick
• Onora O’Neill
• Chris Patten
• Tom Paulin
• Randolph Quirk
• Jon Silkin
• A.J.P. Taylor

Contents

• E.H. Gombrich

  • Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture, 1500-1900 by Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny

• Letters
  David Ayers, Editor, ‘London Review’, Monica Foot, Michael Dummett, Editor, ‘London Review of Books’, Michael Ignatieff, A.M. Healy, Diana Athill, John Sutherland, Nicolas Walter, Roy Harris

• Hans Aarsleff
  Vico and Berlin

• Isaiah Berlin
  Isaiah Berlin responds to the foregoing criticisms of his work

• Douglas Dunn
  Poem: ‘Western Blue’

• A.J.P. Taylor

  • History and Imagination: Essays in honour of H.R. Trevor-Roper edited by Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Valerie Pearl and Blair Worden

• Jon Elster

  • La Distinction: Critique Sociale du Jugement by Pierre Bourdieu

• Tom Paulin

  • Too Long a Sacrifice: Life and Death in Northern Ireland since 1969 by Jack Holland
  • A History of Northern Ireland by Patrick Buckland

• Chris Patten

  • British Industry and the North Sea: State Intervention in a Developing Industrial Sector by Michael Jenkin

• Arthur Marwick

  • Michael Foot: A Portrait by Simon Hoggart and David Leigh

• Nigel Hamilton

  • Washington Despatches, 1941-45: Weekly Political Reports from the British Embassy edited by H.G. Nicholas
  • British Intelligence and the Second World War. Vol. II by F.H. Hinsley, E.E. Thomas, C.F.G. Ransom and R.C. Knight
  • Mars without Venus: A Study of Some Homosexual Generals by Frank Richardson
  • Soldiering on: An Unofficial Portrait of the British Army by Dennis Barker
  • A Breed of Heroes by Alan Judd
  • War in Peace: An Analysis of Warfare Since 1945 edited by Robert Thompson

• John Harvey

  • The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
  • The Villa Golitsyn by Piers Paul Read
  • Funeral Games by Mary Renault
  • The Cupboard by Rose Tremain

• Jon Silkin
  Poem: ‘Acetylene: evacuated to a house in Wales, lit by gas’

• Gabriele Annan

  • Sonya: The Life of Countess Tolstoy by Anne Edwards

• Alan Coren

  • Richard Burton by Paul Ferris
  • Peter Sellers by Alexander Walker

• Randolph Quirk

  • Paradigms Lost: Reflections on Literacy and its Decline by John Simon

• David Cannadine

  • The Victorian Countryside edited by G.E. Mingay

• Onora O’Neill

  • Abortion and Moral Theory by L.W. Sumner