Cover: Herbert Matter

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Bruce Boucher
• Christopher Burns
• J.W. Burrow
• Ian Buruma
• Peter Campbell
• Patricia Craig
• Barbara Everett
• Mark Ford
• John Hughes
• Robin Kinross
• Arthur Marwick
• Nicholas Penny
• Adam Phillips
• John Sturrock
• Andreas Teuber
• E.S. Turner
• Patrick Wright

Contents

• E.S. Turner

  • Maxwell by Joe Haines
  • Maxwell: The Outsider by Tom Bower
  • Maxwell: A Portrait of Power by Peter Thompson and Anthony Delano
  • Goodbye Fleet Street by Robert Edwards

• Letters
  Alan Bennett, Christopher Price, Douglas Johnson, Charles Dicken, Richard King, Simon Critchley, Toby Forward, John Fletcher, Anthony Barnett, Peter Langworth

• Barbara Everett
  Growing

• J.W. Burrow

  • J.G. Frazer: His Life and Work by Robert Ackerman

• Adam Phillips

  • The Riddle of Freud: Jewish Influences on his Theory of Female Sexuality by Estelle Roith

• Nicholas Penny
  Lucian Freud

• John Hughes
  Poem: ‘Perfect Weather for the Minuet’

• Bruce Boucher

  • Venetian Villas by Michelangelo Muraro
  • Picturing Art in Antwerp, 1550-1700 by Zirka Zaremba Filipczak
  • The Painful Birth of the Art Book by Francis Haskell

• Peter Campbell

  • Rodin: A Biography by Frederic Grunfeld

• Ian Buruma

  • The World of the Meiji Print: Impressions of a New Civilisation by Julia Meech-Pekarik

• Robin Kinross

  • Twentieth-Century Type Designers by Sebastian Carter
  • Letters of Credit: A View of Type Design by Walter Tracy

• John Sturrock

  • The Tain of the Mirror: Derrida and the Philosophy of Reflection by Rodolphe Gasché
  • Derrida by Christopher Norris
  • The Truth in Painting by Jacques Derrida, translated by Geoff Bennington and Ian McLeod
  • The Postcard: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond by Jacques Derrida, translated by Alan Bass
  • The Archaeology of the Frivolous: Reading Condillac by Jacques Derrida, translated by John Leavey

• Mark Ford

  • The ego is always at the wheel by Delmore Schwartz
  • A Nest of Ninnies by John Ashbery and James Schuyler

• Arthur Marwick

  • The History of the British Coal Industry. Vol. IV, 1913-1946: The Political Economy of Decline by Barry Supple

• Andreas Teuber
  Absent Framers

• Patrick Wright
  Diary

• Christopher Burns

  • Pleasure by John Murray
  • Absurd Courage by Nobuko Albery
  • Laing by Ann Schlee
  • The Part of Fortune by Laurel Goldman
  • In the Fertile Land by Gabriel Josipovici

• Patricia Craig

  • Three Continents by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala