Contents


  • John Barrell

    • Keeping a rendezvous by John Berger
  • Letters

  • 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