Cover: Michael Woods

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Neal Ascherson
• T.J. Binyon
• Dinah Birch
• Peter Campbell
• Richard Cobb
• Allen Curnow
• Tam Dalyell
• Basil Davidson
• Alistair Elliot
• D.J. Enright
• Jerry Fodor
• Paul Foot
• Andrew Forge
• Carey Harrison
• Douglas Johnson
• George Melly
• Rosalind Mitchison
• Philip Purser
• Anthony Quinn
• Stephen Sackur
• Jenny Turner
• Stephen Wall

Contents

• Andrew Forge
  Some words on the death of Lawrence Gowing

• Andrew Forge writes about the painter Frank Auerbach and the writer Robert Hughes, and about works of art in a dark age

  • Nothing if not critical by Robert Hughes
  • Frank Auerbach by Robert Hughes
  • Figure and Abstraction in Contemporary Painting by Ronald Paulson

• Letters
  Malcolm Deas, Rupert Wilkinson, K. Sinclair-Loutit, Thomas Scott, Rodney Pybus, Editor, ‘London Review’, Michael Pye

• Peter Campbell

  • Dance till the stars come down by Frances Spalding
  • Keith Vaughan by Malcolm Yorke

• George Melly

  • Beverley Nichols by Bryan Connon

• Neal Ascherson

  • A Journey through Ruins: The Last Days of London by Patrick Wright

• Paul Foot

  • Kill the messenger by Bernard Ingham

• Philip Purser

  • A Social History of British Broadcasting. Vol. I: 1922-29, Serving the Nation by Paddy Scannell and David Cardiff
  • The Collected Essays of Asa Briggs. Vol. III: Serious Pursuits, Communication and Education
  • The British Press and Broadcasting since 1945 by Colin Seymour-Ure

• Basil Davidson

  • The Repatriations from Austria: The Report of an Inquiry by Anthony Cowgill, Lord Brimelow and Christopher Booker
  • Cossacks in the German Army 1941-1945 by Samuel Newland
  • Eyewitnesses at Nuremberg by Hilary Gaskin

• Alistair Elliot
  Poem: ‘A Family Wireless’

• Tam Dalyell

  • A Green History of the World by Clive Ponting

• Jerry Fodor

  • The Problem of Consciousness by Colin McGinn

• Dinah Birch

  • The Desire of My Eyes: A Life of John Ruskin by Wolfgang Kemp, translated by Jan Van Huerck

• D.J. Enright

  • Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient by John Wiltshire

• Douglas Johnson

  • The Noble Savage: Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1754-1762 by Maurice Cranston
  • Writings of Rousseau. Vol I: Rousseau: Judge of Jean-Jacques. Dialogues. edited by Roger Masters and Christopher Kelly, translated by Judith Bush, Christopher Kelly and Roger Masters

• Richard Cobb

  • My France: Politics, Culture, Myth by Eugen Weber

• Carey Harrison

  • Curtain by Michael Korda

• Anthony Quinn

  • The Elephant by Richard Rayner
  • The Misfortunes of Nigel by Fiona Pitt-Kethley
  • Famous for the creatures by Andrew Motion
  • Double Lives by Stephen Wall

• Allen Curnow
  Poem: ‘An Unclosed Door’

• Stephen Wall

  • Regeneration by Pat Barker
  • Rose Reason by Mary Flanagan
  • Rose by Rose Boyt

• Jenny Turner

  • The Burn by James Kelman
  • Blood by Janice Galloway

• Stephen Sackur
  Ariel Diary

• Rosalind Mitchison

  • The Hanging Tree by Allan Massie
  • Tiberius: The Memoirs of the Emperor by Allan Massie
  • The Gillyflors by Catherine Cookson

• T.J. Binyon

  • Ngaio Marsh: A Life by Margaret Lewis