CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Bayley
• Norman Buchan
• Peter Campbell
• Thomas Crow
• Carlos Fuentes
• Lawrence Gowing
• Ian Hamilton
• Frank Kermode
• V.G. Kiernan
• Charles Nicholl
• Nicholas Penny
• Michael Stewart
• David Sylvester
• Richard Wollheim

Contents

• Nicholas Penny

  • The Revenge of the Philistines by Hilton Kramer
  • Gilbert and George by Carter Ratcliff
  • British Art in the 20th Century edited by Susan Compton

• Letters
  Michael Mann, W.G. Runciman, Robert Sullivan, A.N. Wilson, J.P. Stern, David Craig, Wayland Kennet, Fred Hunter, David Gilmour

• Lawrence Gowing
  Coldstream

• David Sylvester

  • Giacometti: A Biography by James Lord

• Peter Campbell

  • Ways of Telling: The Work of John Berger by Geoff Dyer

• Thomas Crow

  • The Political Theory of Painting from Reynolds to Hazlitt: ‘The Body of the Public’ by John Barrell

• Richard Wollheim

  • Semites and Anti-Semites by Bernard Lewis
  • After the Last Sky by Edward Said and Jean Mohr

• Michael Stewart

  • Choose freedom: The Future for Democratic Socialism by Roy Hattersley
  • Power, Competition and the State. Vol. I: Britain in Search of Balance, 1940-61 by Keith Middlemas

• V.G. Kiernan

  • The Fatal Shore: A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868 by Robert Hughes
  • Rights of Passage: Emigration to Australia in the 19th Century by Helen Woolcock

• Ian Hamilton
  Poem: ‘Larkinesque’

• Charles Nicholl

  • The Global Connection: The Crisis of Drug Addiction by Ben Whitaker

• John Bayley
  The Matter of India

• Norman Buchan
  Diary

• Frank Kermode

  • Little Wilson and Big God by Anthony Burgess

• Carlos Fuentes

  • I the Supreme by Augusto Roa Bastos, translated by Helen Lane