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Contents

Vol. 7 No. 17 · 3 October 1985

  • Richard Wollheim

    • J.T. Christie: A Great Teacher by Donald Lindsay, Roger Young and Hugh Lloyd-Jones

  • Letters

  • Robert Rotberg weighs the chances of an imminent black revolution in South Africa

  • Dan Jacobson

    • To the Bitter End: A Photographic History of the Boer War 1899-1902 by Emanoel Lee

  • Craig Raine

    • Time and Time Again by Dan Jacobson

  • Ahdaf Soueif

    • An Egyptian Journal by William Golding

  • Michael Kustow praises Peter Brook’s ‘Mahabharata’

  • Alexander Nehamas

    • The Skeptical Tradition edited by Myles Burnyeat
    • The Modes of Scepticism: Ancient Texts and Modern Interpretations by Julia Annas and Jonathan Barnes
    • Skepticism and Naturalism: Some Varieties by P.F. Strawson
    • Hume’s Skepticism in the ‘Treatise of Human Nature’ by Robert Fogelin
    • The Refutation of Scepticism by A.C. Grayling
    • The Significance of Philosophical Scepticism by Barry Stroud

  • Geoffrey Hawthorn

    • Hegel: The Letters translated by Clark Butler and Christine Seiler

  • Gareth Reeves
    Poem: ‘A Funny Smell’

  • Michael Wood

    • Mr Palomar by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver
    • Parrot’s Perch by Michel Rio, translated by Leigh Hafrey
    • Light Years by Maggie Gee

  • Pat Rogers

    • Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
    • Paradise Postponed by John Mortimer
    • High Ground by John McGahern

  • Penelope Fitzgerald

    • Our Three Selves: A Life of Radclyffe Hall by Michael Baker

  • Michael Church

    • Here lies: An Autobiography by Eric Ambler
    • The Levanter by Eric Ambler
    • Doctor Frigo by Eric Ambler
    • The Other Side of the Moon: The Life of David Niven by Sheridan Morley
    • Secrets: Boyhood in a Jewish Hotel 1932-1954 by Ronald Hayman
    • A Woman in Custody by Audrey Peckham
    • No Gangster More Bold by John Morgan

  • Christopher Hitchens
    Diary

  • E.S. Turner

    • Great Britons: 20th-Century Lives by Harold Oxbury
    • The Oxford Book of Military Anecdotes edited by Max Hastings
    • The Long Affray: The Poaching Wars in Britain by Harry Hopkins