Contents


  • Alan Bennett

    • Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life by Andrew Motion
  • Letters

  • John Bayley

    • Philip Larkin: Writer by James Booth
  • Patricia Beer

    • Lawrence’s Women: The Intimate Life of D.H. Lawrence by Elaine Feinstein
  • Greil Marcus

    • Panegyric, Vol. I by Guy Debord, translated by James Brook
    • The Most Radical Gesture: The Situationist International in a Post-Modern Age by Sadie Plant
  • D.J. Enright

    • On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored by Adam Phillips
  • Gabriele Annan

    • Alias Olympia: A Woman’s Search for Manet’s Notorious Model and Her Own Desire by Eunice Lipton
  • Nicholas Penny

    • Henri Matisse: A Retrospective by John Elderfield
    • Henri Matisse 1904-1917 by Yves-Alain Bois
  • David Solkin

    • The Great Age of British Watercolours 1750-1880 by Andrew Wilton and Anne Lyles
  • Peter Campbell

    • The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell edited by Stephanie Terenzio
  • Alistair Elliot
    Poem: ‘A Memorial Service’

  • Adam Mars-Jones

    • Maybe the Moon by Armistead Maupin
  • Penelope Fitzgerald

    • Poet and Dancer by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
    • Peerless Flats by Esther Freud
  • Jenny Diski
    On the Existence of Mount Rushmore and Other Improbabilities

  • Michael Wood

    • Malcolm X directed by Spike Lee
    • By Any Means Necessary: The Trials and Tribulations of the Making of ‘Malcolm X’ by Spike Lee and Ralph Wiley
    • Malcolm X: The Great Photographs compiled by Thulani Davis and Howard Chapnick
  • Stephen Smith
    LA Diary

  • Anne Summers

    • Rules of Desire: Sex in Britain, World War One to the Present by Cate Haste
    • Marie Stopes and the Sexual Revolution by June Rose
    • Familiar Exploitation: A New Analysis of Marriage in Contemporary Western Societies by Christine Delphy and Diana Leonard
    • The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies by Anthony Giddens