Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Svetlana Alpers
• Ronan Bennett
• Peter Campbell
• Frank Cioffi
• Susan Eilenberg
• Paul Foot
• Mary Hawthorne
• Zachary Leader
• Tom Lubbock
• Bill Manhire
• Chris Miele
• Nicholas Penny
• Simon Schaffer
• Lorna Scott Fox
• E.S. Turner
• Marina Warner
• Peter Wollen
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Tom Lubbock

  • Shark-Infested Waters: The Saatchi Collection of British Art in the Nineties by Sarah Kent
  • The Reviews that Caused the Rumpus, and Other Pieces by Brian Sewell

• Letters
  Bu Wilson, Michael Straight, Christopher Hitchens, Bryan Robertson, Patrick Parrinder, Edna Longley, Trevor Turner; Michael Neve, Terry Castle, Keith Flett

• Peter Campbell

  • Don’t Leave Me This Way: Art in the Age of Aids compiled by Ted Gott
  • The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of Aids by Simon Garfield

• Marina Warner

  • Love’s Work by Gillian Rose

• Susan Eilenberg

  • The Brontës by Juliet Barker

• Frank Cioffi

  • When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals by Jeffrey Masson and Susan McCarthy
  • The Hidden Life of Dogs by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
  • The Tribe of Tiger by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

• Simon Schaffer

  • Sir Hans Sloane: Collector, Scientist, Antiquary, Founding Father of the British Museum edited by Arthur Macgregor

• Bill Manhire
  Poem: ‘Colloquial Europe’

• Nicholas Penny

  • The Altarpiece in Renaissance Venice by Peter Humfrey
  • Italian Altarpieces 1250-1550: Function and Design edited by Eve Borsook and Fiorella Superbi Gioffredi

• Svetlana Alpers

  • Hans Memling: The Complete Works by Dirk de Vos

• Chris Miele

  • ‘Greek’ Thomson edited by Gavin Stamp and Sam McKinstry

• Paul Foot

  • The Davies Report: The ‘Great Battle’ in Swansea by Michael Davies

• E.S. Turner

  • Zipper: An Exploration in Novelty by Robert Friedel

• Michael Wood

  • The Wild Party by Joseph Moncure March, with drawings by Art Spiegelman

• Mary Hawthorne

  • Shelter by Jayne Anne Phillips

• Zachary Leader

  • In Pharaoh’s Army: Memories of a Lost War by Tobias Wolff
  • Tallien: A Brief Romance by Frederic Tuten
  • Roommates: My Grandfather’s Story by Max Apple

• Lorna Scott Fox

  • Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father by Richard Rodriguez

• Peter Wollen

  • Virginia Woolf by James King

• Ronan Bennett
  Diary