CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Noël Annan
• George Ball
• Malcolm Bull
• Amit Chaudhuri
• Jonathan Coe
• Denis Donoghue
• John Dunn
• Andrew Forge
• Christopher Hitchens
• George Melly
• Rosalind Mitchison
• Patrick Parrinder
• Nicholas Penny
• Stephen Sackur
• E.S. Turner

Contents

• George Ball on the Middle East

• Letters
  Steven Rose, Michael Sprinker, P. Coustillas, Jane Miller, Bernard Bergonzi, Ian MacKillop, Stanley Smith

• Christopher Hitchens

  • Critical Crossings: The New York Intellectuals in Post-War America by Neil Jumonville

• Andrew Forge

  • Jackson Pollock: An American Saga by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
  • Abstract Expressionism by David Anfam
  • Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston by Musa Mayer

• Nicholas Penny

  • Renaissance Portraits: European Portrait Painting in the 14th, 15th and 16th Centuries by Lorne Campbell

• Malcolm Bull

  • Nicolas Poussin by Alain Mérot, translated by Fabia Claris
  • Nicolas Poussin: Dialectics of Painting by Oskar Bätschmann, translated by Marko Daniel
  • Ideal Landscape: Annibale Carracci, Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain by Margaretha Rossholm Lagerlöf

• George Melly

  • A Surrealist Life by John Lowe

• Noël Annan

  • A Traveller’s Alphabet: Partial Memoirs by Steven Runciman

• E.S. Turner

  • After Hours with P.G. Wodehouse by Richard Usborne

• Rosalind Mitchison

  • Scottish Voices 1745-1960 by T.C. Smout and Sydney Wood

• Denis Donoghue

  • The Selected Writings of Jack B. Yeats edited by Robin Skelton

• Patrick Parrinder

  • Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991 by Salman Rushdie

• Amit Chaudhuri

  • Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry

• Jonathan Coe

  • To Know a Woman by Amos Oz, translated by Nicholas de Lange
  • The Smile of the Lamb by David Grossman, translated by Betsy Rosenberg

• Stephen Sackur
  Diary

• John Dunn

  • Saint-Just by Norman Hampson