CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Elspeth Barker
• John Barrell
• John Bayley
• Peter Campbell
• Arthur C. Danto
• Basil Davidson
• D.J. Enright
• Penelope Fitzgerald
• Philip Gross
• Christopher Harvie
• Rosemary Hill
• John Hughes
• Will Hutton
• Ross McKibbin
• Tom Paulin
• Nicholas Penny
• Claude Rawson
• Edward Said
• Stephen Spender
• Hugh Thomas

Contents

• John Barrell

  • Keeping a rendezvous by John Berger

• Letters
  Doris Lessing, Peter Cadogan, Tom Wilson, Gary Taylor, R.V. Holdsworth, Geoffrey Hawthorn, Nicholas Young, Donald Davie, Donald Rayfield, Jeremy James, Earl Miner, Diana Hendry

• Ross McKibbin

  • ‘Goodbye, Great Britain’: The 1976 IMF Crisis by Kathleen Burk and Alec Cairncross

• Christopher Harvie
  Up the Scottish (Co-operative Wholesale) Republic!

• John Hughes
  Poem: ‘The Bog Road’

• Will Hutton

  • The Great Reckoning: How the world will change in the depression of the Nineties by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg

• Tom Paulin

  • Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being by Ted Hughes

• Edward Said

  • Minotaur: Poetry and the Nation State by Tom Paulin

• Claude Rawson

  • Homer: The ‘Iliad’ translated by Robert Fagles
  • Kings by Christopher Logue

• Arthur C. Danto

  • Perspective as Symbolic Form by Erwin Panofsky, translated by Christoper Wood
  • The Language of Art History edited by Salim Kemal and Ivan Gaskell

• Rosemary Hill

  • Architecture and the After-Life by Howard Colvin
  • The Art of Death: Visual Culture in the English Death Ritual c.1500-c.1800 by Nigel Llewellyn

• Stephen Spender
  Diary

• Nicholas Penny

  • Metropolitan Jewellery by Sophie McConnell
  • Italian Renaissance Frames by Timothy Newbery, George Bisacca and Laurence Kanter
  • The Italian Renaissance Interior 1400-1600 by Peter Thornton
  • Palaces of Art edited by Giles Waterfield

• Philip Gross
  Poem: ‘Ex’

• Peter Campbell

  • Building Capitalism by Linda Clarke
  • The City Shaped by Spiro Kostof
  • A New London by Richard Rogers and Mark Fisher

• D.J. Enright

  • Proofs and Three Parables by George Steiner

• John Bayley

  • The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales edited by Chris Baldick

• Basil Davidson

  • The African Experience by Roland Oliver
  • A Thousand Years of East Africa by John Sutton
  • When the grass is gone edited by P.W.T. Baxter
  • The Scramble for Africa by Thomas Pakenham

• Hugh Thomas

  • The Spanish Civil War: Revolution and Counter-Revolution by Burnett Bolloten

• Elspeth Barker

  • Stepsons by Robert Liddell
  • Farewell Sidonia by Erich Hackl

• Penelope Fitzgerald

  • Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang